Cookbook:Moqueca de Peixe (Brazilian Seafood Stew)

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This is a recipe for the original Bahian Moqueca de Peixe.

Ingredients

For 5 servings:

• 1 kg of fresh (white) fish (just try coal fish in the beginning), cut into two-finger wide stripes/slices
• the juice of one lemon
• 2 mid-sized onions, cut into circular slices
• 2 bell peppers (one red, one green), cut into circular slices
• 1 clove of garlic, squeezed
• 4 ripe tomatoes, chopped, optionally skinned
• 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 for moqueca under any circumstances)
• 200 mL coconut milk
• salt
• pepper

Procedure

1. Leave the fish in a marinade made out of lemon juice and fine powdered pepper for at least one 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 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!
4. Serve with white rice.

Notes, tips, and variations

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