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Moqueca de Peixe

Name: Moqueca de Peixe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 1 kg of fresh (white) fish (just try coal fish in the beginning) (cut into two-finger wide stripes/slices); 1 unit the juice of one lemon; 2 unit mid-sized onions (cut into circular slices); 2 unit bell peppers (one red (one green), cut into circular slices); 1 clove of garlic (squeezed); 4 unit ripe tomatoes (chopped, optionally skinned); 4 unit 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; 1 unit salt; 1 unit pepper

Brazilian Cuisine This is a recipe for the original Bahian Moqueca de Peixe. To prepare moqueca for

Prep15 min

Cook30 min

Total45 min

Servings4

Difficultyintermediate

Ingredients

of fresh (white) fish (just try coal fish in the beginning)
cut into two-finger wide stripes/slices
1 kg
the juice of one lemon
1 unit
mid-sized onions
cut into circular slices
2 unit
bell peppers (one red
one green), cut into circular slices
2 unit
of garlic
squeezed
1 clove
ripe tomatoes
chopped, optionally skinned
4 unit
cilantro stems with leaves
finely chopped
4 unit
Azeite de dendê (a very tasty
heavy, saffron-colored palm oil, which may not be omitted for moqueca under any circumstances)
12 tablespoons
coconut milk
200 mL
salt
1 unit
pepper
1 unit

Method

Leave the fish in a marinade made out of lemon juice and fine powdered pepper for at least one hour.

Put the fish, onions, bell peppers, garlic, tomatoes and the cilantro in numerous layers into a pot.

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!

Serve with white rice.

Moqueca de Peixe

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