Cookbook:Moqueca de Peixe (Brazilian Seafood Stew)

| Brazilian Cuisine

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

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

Procedure

 * 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, tips, and variations

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