Tuvaluan Fish in Coconut

Fresh fish poached in coconut cream and lime.

Ingredients

• 1 kg Fresh fish
• 2 cups Coconut cream
• 2 Onions
• ¼ cup Lime juice
• 2 Tomatoes
• 1 Chili
• 2 tsp Salt
• 3 Spring onions

Method

1. Season the fish — Rub with lime and salt and rest 20 minutes.
2. Layer the pot — Lay onion and tomato at the base so the fish does not stick.
3. Add fish — Set the fish over the vegetables.
4. Add coconut — Pour the coconut cream over with the chili.
5. Poach gently — Cook 18 minutes without stirring or boiling hard — hard boiling splits the coconut.
6. Fish is ready — Finish with spring onion and serve with rice or pulaka.

More Tuvalu recipes

• Fekei
• Pulaka with Coconut