Marinated Raw Fish in Coconut Cream ( Samoan Dish )

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- Ready In:
- 3hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 500 g white fish fillets
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup lemon juice
- 1⁄2 lemon, sliced
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 400 ml coconut cream, if it's not too rich or 1/2 cup coconut cream, if it's rich
directions
- Cut fish into cubed pieces.
- Sprinkle with salt then lemon juice.
- Cover and chill for 2 hours or overnight or until fish whitens, stirring occasionally.
- Put in onion, coconut cream, tomatoes and cucumber, and garnish with 1/2 lemon slices.
- Serve chilled.
Reviews
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I absolutely love this recipe, but have a couple of variations that i like to use. Instead of just lemon or lime i like to use even amounts of both, this gives the added acidity of the lemon, and the subtle flavour of the lime. I prefer to "cook" the fish in the lemon/lime mix for a minimal amount of time, normally around 20mins, but maximum of an hour, before draining 3/4 of the juice and adding the coconut milk. Instead of onion i like to use thinly sliced spring onion, i also like to add diced yellow capsicum to the seeded tomatoes and cucumber. Depending on my mood i sometimes use the lite coconut milk, because the full fat stuff is really high in saturated fats, nicer, but really bad for you.
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I cannot you how much I liked this dish. I think it must be a nature vs. nurture type of thing because I was not raised on food like this, but I was born in Hawaii! I used lime juice and let it marinate in the refrigerator overnight. The harmony and contrast between the coconut cream, onions, and fish was groovy. I loved the texture of the fish as well. I used swai fillet (bass).
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I absolutely love this recipe, but have a couple of variations that i like to use. Instead of just lemon or lime i like to use even amounts of both, this gives the added acidity of the lemon, and the subtle flavour of the lime. I prefer to "cook" the fish in the lemon/lime mix for a minimal amount of time, normally around 20mins, but maximum of an hour, before draining 3/4 of the juice and adding the coconut milk. Instead of onion i like to use thinly sliced spring onion, i also like to add diced yellow capsicum to the seeded tomatoes and cucumber. Depending on my mood i sometimes use the lite coconut milk, because the full fat stuff is really high in saturated fats, nicer, but really bad for you.