Camarão Seco

Dried shrimp are one of the more important ingredients used in Bahian cooking. In fishing towns along the Bahia coast one sees fishermen mixing their catch of little shrimp with dendê to give them that delicious taste and brilliant crimson color. In the scorching sun, hills of shrimp are tossed and raked over and over again, then at night covered with a tarp. The process is repeated over the next couple of days until the shells are crisp and crunchy and the flesh tender but a little chewy.<