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Moqueca de Peixe (Brazilian Seafood Stew)

This is a recipe for the original Bahian moqueca de peixe.

Servings
5

Ingredients

  • 1 kg fresh white fish, cut into two finger-wide strips/slices
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 2 mid-sized onions, cut into circular slices
  • 2 bell peppers (one red, one green), cut into circular slices
  • 1 clove of garlic, pressed
  • 4 ripe tomatoes, optionally skinned then chopped
  • 4 cilantro stems with leaves, finely chopped
  • 12 tablespoons Azeite de dendê (a very tasty, heavy, saffron-colored palm oil, which may not be omitted under any circumstances)
  • 200 ml coconut milk
  • Salt
  • Pepper
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Method

  1. Leave the fish in a marinade made out of lemon juice and fine powdered pepper for at least 1 hour.
  2. Put the fish, onions, bell peppers, garlic, tomatoes and the cilantro in numerous layers into a pot.
  3. Pour the azeite de dendê and the coconut milk over all, and boil everything for 20 minutes. From time to time, ladle/scoop the liquid from the pot's bottom to its top. Be careful, in order to not break the fish!
  4. Season to taste with salt.
  5. Serve with white rice.

Notes

  • To get the best taste you have to add more salt than you might think.
  • Try using coal fish.

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