Moqueca de Peixe (Brazilian Seafood Stew)

Name: Moqueca de Peixe (Brazilian Seafood Stew)
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

| Brazilian Cuisine

Category: Fish

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

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

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