Prawn Stew in Yucca and Coconut Sauce

Prawns, dendê oil, coconut milk and peppers makes this recipe one of my favourite flavour combinations of our cuisine. It’s all robed in a delicious sauce that relies on a staple vegetable in Brazil: yucca. Most Brazilians cook yucca with coconut milk, then blend it in a food processor or blender. Yucca, however, does not blend well. If you have ever tried mashing potatoes in a food processor, you know the disaster I am referring to. To solve this problem, I injected some French tech