RCI-SF.005.0042.001
Moqueca de Peixe
This is a recipe for the original Bahian Moqueca de Peixe.
Prep15 min
Cook20 min
Total35 min
Servings4
Difficultyintermediate
Ingredients
- of fresh (white) fish (just try coal fish in the beginning)1 kgcut into two-finger wide stripes/slices
- 1 unit
- mid-sized onions2 unitcut into circular slices
- bell peppers (one red2 unitone green), cut into circular slices
- of garlic1 clovesqueezed
- ripe tomatoes4 unitchopped, optionally skinned
- cilantro stems with leaves4 unitfinely chopped
- Azeite de dendê (a very tasty12 tablespoonsheavy, saffron-colored palm oil, which may not be omitted for moqueca under any circumstances)
- 200 mL
- 1 unit
- 1 unit
Method
1
Leave the fish in a marinade made out of lemon juice and fine powdered pepper for at least one hour.
60 minutes
2
Put the fish, onions, bell peppers, garlic, tomatoes and the cilantro in numerous layers into a pot.
10 minutes
3
Pour the azeite de dendê and the coconut milk over all and let 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 not to break the fish!
20 minutes
4
Serve with white rice.
1 minutes