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Moqueca de Peixe (Brazilian Seafood Stew)

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

Yield 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

Instructions

  1. 1
    Leave the fish in a marinade made out of lemon juice and fine powdered pepper for at least 1 hour.
  2. 2
    Put the fish, onions, bell peppers, garlic, tomatoes and the cilantro in numerous layers into a pot.
  3. 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. 4
    Season to taste with salt.
  5. 5
    Serve with white rice.
Category
Soups
Cuisine
Brazilian

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Moqueca_de_Peixe_(Brazilian_Seafood_Stew)