I am making a version of Kiko’s Moqueca! (From Below Deck Med) brazilian fish stew. I have most of the ingredients. LOL. I am not making a lot of it. I don’t have the carrots and they don’t really seem to me like they go anyway.
Brazilian Fish Stew (Moqueca) with coconut milk, lime and jalapeño – a flavorful seafood stew that can be made in under 30 mintues.
Author: Sylvia Fountaine
Prep Time: 15
Cook Time: 20
Total Time: 35 minutes
Cuisine: South American
Fish:1 – 1 1/2 pounds firm white fish- Halibut, Black Cod, Sea Bass ( thicker cuts are best) (I’m making a much smaller portion with shrimp and a tiny bit of lobster I got with a lobster roll delivery from the NE. You guys spoil me. )
½ teaspoon salt
one lime- zest and juice
Stew/ Sauce:
2–3 tablespoons coconut or olive oil (or use Dende – Brazillian Red Palm oil for the best flavor!)
1 onion- finely diced ( red, white or yellow)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup carrot, diced
1 red bell pepper, diced
4 garlic cloves- rough chopped
1/2 jalapeno, finely diced
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon cumin
1 cup fish or chicken stock
1 1/2 cups tomatoes, diced ( preferably fresh)
1 14 ounce can coconut milk ( liquid and solids)
½ cup chopped cilantro, scallions or Italian parsley
squeeze of lime
Serve over cilantro rice, basmati rice, black rice or everyday quinoa.
Instructions
Rinse and pat dry the fish and cut into 2 inch pieces. Place in a bowl. Add salt, zest from half the lime and 1 tablespoon lime juice. Massage lightly to coat all pieces well. Set aside.
In a large cast Iron skillet, heat the olive oil over medium high heat. Add onion and salt, and sauté 2-3 minutes. Turn heat down to medium, add carrot, bell pepper, garlic and jalapeno and cook 4-5 more minutes. Add tomato paste, spices and stock. Mix and bring to a simmer and add tomatoes. Cover and simmer gently on medium low for 5 minutes or until carrots are tender.
Add the coconut milk and taste add more salt if necessary.
Nestle the fish in the stew and simmer gently until it’s cooked through, about 4-6 minutes. Spoon the flavorful coconut broth over the fish and cook until desired doneness or longer for thicker pieces. ( You can also finish this in a 350F oven).
Taste and adjust salt and squeeze with lime.
To serve, serve over rice, sprinkle with cilantro or scallions and a squeeze of lime.
Drizzle with a little olive oil if you like.
Serve with rice or crusty bread to mop up all the juices. I slightly modified the recipe from Feasting At Home.
I’ve done some prep work, but, I think I am going to take a nap first. 🙂 I gots the narcolepsy today. I keep falling asleep.
Oh, wow. That looks interesting.
So far, I’ve been feeling too lazy to cook today. I was planning to keep hustling at work, but I just can’t deal with it today.
Congrats on being so brave in the kitchen!
Sounds really interesting!
I’m thinking of trying to look for a simple lentil recipe. I’ve never made them before, and I have several bags of them. I was inspired by a new cookbook I got called Cool Beans, trying to up my Zero Point protein options on Weight Watchers (since I can’t eat eggs). But I’ve had to tweak his recipes each time and the only lentil recipes he has call for red lentils. (I have the basic brown I think).
How are you doing, Erica? Still living with the oarents?
OMG, you are so sweet to remember. I’m ok, except for WEIGHT GAIN. I joined WW over a year ago, and was resigned to being a “turtle” in weight loss… but since the pandemic? I’m gaining. I bet if my cortisol levels were measured from stress, it’d be off the charts. Plus, I’m in a house where there are potato chips.
I AM still living with the folks. I am struggling with missing my “me” time. Of spending the day flopping around with no bra on, hell spending the entire weekend. (My boobies are not ones that look even an iota of good without a bra. Hell, not even with a bra most of the time, but better.) About once a month, I get the opportunity to drive my car, solo for various errands or work trips. I RELISH it.
But I’ve gotten my mom HOOKED on America’s Next Top Model. We started with Season 1… we’re on Cycle 13 and finally on seasons where I don’t automatically remember who won! I have a list of new stuff to watch, but we’re realizing this shit leaves us exhausted and on our individual screens so our powers of concentration are not up to something like Hunters on Amazon which normally we’d be all over.
I’m also playing Animal Crossing on the Switch in case anyone one wants to be my friend!!!!!
How are you????
Erica, there was a popular 17 day diet a few years ago. In it are recipes, the chili is awesome. Over the years I have and my adult sons have made variations of it. I triple the recipe using 3 types of canned beans. One son uses a Mexican flavored chicken chunks. Often I use the recipe as is, better the next day.
It’s online,?you don’t need to buy the book.
OH! That sounds delish!!! and something I could prep ahead and eat for lunch for zero point meals. Googling!!!!
I think Ina Garten has a good recipe for lentils…she serves them with salmon. hers call for french lentils but she does say any kind work fine.
Ina, and Food Network in general! I forget to check there.
That looks delicious!! I went and bought some plants today and just made some Mint Lemon Iced tea.
I kind of want to make a Dutch baby tonight but we will see.
I am going to need more about this “dutch baby.” Y’all are way more interesting than me.
It is like a puffed pancake that you bake in the oven. It is really good topped with fruit or fruit mixed in. We decided to get take out from a local restaurant that just reopened for carry out/delivery. I am excited because they have a wood fire they cook the pizza in and it is delicious.
Ha! I thought you were trying to get knocked up by a Dutch guy…
Ah no… already knocked up and no more for me. I can’t do pregnancy again.
Oh it is usually cooked in a cast iron too for the Dutch baby because cast iron is the best
Please post the Dutch baby recipe if time permits. It sounds delicious & I love trying new things!
For a few a good Dutch Baby recipes — including a chocolate version— check out smitten kitchen dot com.
Dutch babies are simple and practically fool-proof. If you are cooking for more than yourself, it is a special sight to see it come out of the oven. All puffed up before it collapses, which is normal. Squeeze of lemon and extra-fine granulated sugar, or monk fruit sweetener, while it’s piping hot.
in Denmark they make Aebleskiver, which are like mini Dutch pancakes. You make them in a special pan. I inherited my father’s pan when he died, I do make them from time to time, they are amazing.
Thanks for the info Nanette. Will make them this upcoming weekend. Hope all is well. Have a great week !
my best friend’s mom used to make those when we were kids, they had to be in a cast iron pan, they are amazing, we ate them with stewed apples. so yum
Sounds similar to a Pannekoeken from Pannekoeken Huis. Haven’t had one in many years but I remember the way they’d run it to your table before it could collapse and the aroma permeating throughout the restaurant was out of this world! In my misspent youth, my girlfriend and I would each eat a whole one about once a week and figured if we walked home, which was a WHOLE mile, the weight gain would come off. Needless to say, that was not the case. 😉 Must dig out iron skillet NOW. Thanks Maria!
Mmmmm…I love a Dutch baby!
Cafe Edwige in Provincetown used to have a phenomenal moqueca on its menu. Sadly, it changed chefs and the moqueca disappeared. But now I’m thinking this is going to be prepared at my house soon.
Good for you!! Glad you’re feeling well enough to cook!! Take care of yourself and let us know if we can help in any way!!
You help just by being here. I just need to decompress a bit. Everything was becoming a bit much. But today has been very relaxing AND THE SUN IS OUT! FINALLY!
Y’all always make me smile. I subbed Harissa for the paprika, because I have all the north African spices. Pretty much everything is in the skillet except for the fish. I was going to try to freeze the rest of the coconut milk because I am not making a big batch… But I think I’ll just use the whole can, It smells delicious. I’m just going to let everything cook down a bit. I kinda use recipes as “suggestions” anyway. 🙂 And I thought I had lime juice but I didn’t so I went with a fresh lemon I needed to use up anyway. I can see why Kiko makes this so much… it smells delightful. Is making me happy. 🙂 I put of bunch of my tiniest yellow cherry sunburst tomatoes in there… It’s just a melting pot of goodness.
I love cast iron skillets!! Ever since I saw Tom Colichhio (sp?) cook a fat rib eye steak in one on LCK I’ve been obsessed!! Yeah it’s only been like 2 months but I’ve acquired 3 pieces so far! Staub is what I went for over Le Creuset.
Well you know the baby sister sort of loses out the family estate, but I took every cast iron thing I could get with no flack. I think Mama’s were her mamas so the are really old because Mama was born in 1925. I was a menopause baby. It’s something Kenya Moore gets to look forward too, menopause with a defiant teen in puberty…. 🙂
I suggest Lodge or something without the enamel. You just want a plain ole cast iron skillet IMHO.
Lodge is my first choice. Lodge sells little scrapers to clean out the pans too. No soap and water. YouTube has demos on how to season new pans, and how to reseason after an idiot puts them in the dishwasher.
Lodge is a great brand for non enameled cast iron. Chrissy Teigen has some really good looking pots too!!!! I bought the individual knife that was offered at Target and I LOVE it. I’m thinking of buying her little individual cast iron pots.. plus the one that would be great for paella.
I almost posted the other day when you wanted to a lady sitter that if I didn’t have my little munchkin I would totally be your quarantine lady sitter. I am good with difficult dogs, trained pastry chef, can cook and clean and like to garden. I also have been a virtual assistant with customer service skills for small businesses.
I would do it for free just to have a quiet place to hang out right now.
I’m not so good with the cleaning…
I just got caught up on The Chi on Showtime and Kandi is coming in on Season 3 episode four as someone who knows the really bad guy. Take this weekend to catch up with Season One and Two on demand if you have Showtime. Season three 1-3 is up and I think Episode is on Monday or Tuesday,,,,
The CHI is REALLY Good. I am kind of glad I missed it at first. Binging is great.
I will have to see if I can get it. It sounds really good. I am good at cleaning when I don’t have to watch a toddler too.
I binged both seasons a few weeks ago….sooooooo good!!!!
Cooking can be therapeutic. I gained 10 pandemic pounds and decided that if the end were coming, I would be proud of eating as much good pizza as possible in my lifetime. I lost the amazing pizza dough recipe I last used, otherwise it would be 15.
Pandemic pounds!
I’m stealing that.
I’ve heard it call the Quarantine 15.
I’m skeered to call it that in case it becomes 15 or more!!!
I read (*somewhere on the internet) that there is an evolutionary advantage to women who gain weight in response to stress and crisis compared to women who lose weight in these scenarios, so I’m in favor of embracing it.
I don’t want to have to order next size up clothes!!!
Thanks for confirming I have the Quarantine 15 plus the additional Pandemic Pounds.
I am going with Bucky, embracing the weight as I have to get my head round creating Canna Butter to make edibles,plus Xmas. I am soooo embracing the weight gain to keep me warm over winter.
Roll On Lentil season.
Love it- thanks for sharing the recipe! I am totally going to try to make his! Love you TT
Oh the Chi airs on Sunday! I Can’t wait!
Thank you so much for sharing this!! You think it would work with snapper? I’m gonna say yes because that’s what we have at the moment. The man fishes often so I’m thrilled about a new fish recipe!
Yes it works with any fish. And you can be all lossey goosey with the ingredients. But the coconut milk ( I had a can from Whole Foods) is the star along with the Tomatoes,,
For any fish stew, you want a firm white fish. Snapper will do, not cod or tilapia, those will fall apart. Especially farmed tilapia.
If you are vegetarian, you can use tofu.
Nanette, is tilapia safe? I saw a tilapia fish farm in the southern Calif desert where it was grown in waste water. It was such a turn off Izvestia never been able to eat it
Whether it’s safe or not, it’s like the farmed trout that used to come to restaurants in the little “body bags.” Tasteless and mushy. There is usually something on sale. Just ask the fish person what yiu could use in a fish stew that is similar to sea bass. Shark, swordfish, halibut if it’s good and firm, sometimes it’s good but flaky. If the market filleted it, the person will know. Orange roughy used to be good but something happened and now it’s “iffy.” Also, monkfish/anglerfish, aka poor man’s lobster, has been just about fished out into extinction.
Worked in a seafood restaurant for six years, we used to get off work and go into a bar and everyone would make a big show of sniffing the air and in chorus say, “The Nantucket girls are here!”
Thanks everyone! We eat what we can catch because I didn’t buy someone fancy ass things to fish from only to get nothing in return. One of my all time favorites is sheepshead which so many ppl consider garbage fish around here. I never even knew because I’ve eaten it my entire life.
This reminds me of a housekeeper I had many, many years ago and my aversion to tilapia. She would make her own lunch at my house when she came. It never bothered me and she always cleaned up after herself. She was a really sweet lady. She actually got deported and I didn’t find out until she just didn’t show up anymore. Very sad. Anyway, she would hide her food to keep it separate from mine in the fridge and I would find random stuff in there occasionally when cleaning it and freezer out. At some point, our ice maker started making ice that tasted like ass. I had a repair man come out and he found a god only knows how old half used unsealed bag of frozen tilapia shoved into the hidden hole in the ice maker in the freezer! Had to dump, defrost and deep clean that thing and I can still smell it when I think about it, lol. Yeah, no tilapia for me, thanks.
My dad, who grew up on the Puget Sound and whose family sometimes relied on fishing or clamming from it to put protein on the table, won’t eat tilapia. He calls them the shit eaters. He’s not a fan of farmed fish in general though.
Ha! My Dad was an old WWII navy man, he wouldn’t eat tilapia either. He said when fishing on ship they always threw the tilapia back because they were trash fish.
Well the Lawn Guy, not to ebe confused with the Lawn Kid, love it. I’m not hungry because now it is happy hour and I have some cheap Prosecco that Kroger had on sale a few weeks ago when I was there, And Banjo has a new twink boyfriend. He loves a little twink dog.
Nice to hear you are enjoying your time off & cooking yourself a nice meal. Off today did laundry & ironing for the week. Attempted to take a walk but it’s way to humid for me. Tonight getting Chinese food delivered & plan on watching the Netflix documentary on David Foster : Off the Record. Had tickets to he & Katherine Mcphee show in May 2020 ( & was so looking forward to going ) but it got cancelled due to coronavirus. My last concert was Celine Dion in December & she was MAGNIFICENT. If that’s the last concert I will ever be able to attend it was truly a remarkable evening. Hope you & Banjo are both feeling better. I know it’s been a rough week for you.I hope the pool opens & you get to go soon ! Take care of yourself & enjoy some much needed time off. xo Marc
My last “concert” was Luann, and honestly, same. 🙂
The therapy pool is open but is it weird and complicated and things are bad in Georgia so I am going to hold off. I have a sister with a pool but it isn’t same thing.
Go to the pool for your mental health. The protocols aren’t that bad to follow. I found that alot of people aren’t coming back when I went back to the Y and it’s been open for a month. Most of the time it’s just a few of us doing laps and It’s been open for a month. Swimming in chlorine is one of the safest exercises. We do temp checks, masks, 6 ft separation and lots of hand sanitizer all over the place. But there are fewer people there than in the grocery store. I am so happy to be back and feel much better.
The therapy pool just opened. I was giving them some time to get the kinks worked out. It appears that even yoga is back and I am not doing that. We have to make reservations and it is very complicated. They said the first week went well. They are not letting us use the lockerrooms. The walkers have to walk the short laps but not the swimmers which pisses me off. But apparently the first week went fine. We are quickly becoming a hotspot so I’m more nervous than ever about the grocery store,., But I will probably give the pool a try soon. I’m not good at planning sanity in advance…
I was at the pool the day mine opened. We could not use the locker room either at first. Our walkers usually use the end lanes, we have no short lanes. I bet it won’t be crowded. How is it complicated to make reservations ? Make a reservation and start going. Hopefully, the sanity will follow.
That looks delicious!!!
Sign me up for anything with coconut milk! 🥥
Tamara, if you see this, please call or let me know if you are reading any of your email messages.
Hey, I’m fine. Just sleeping a lot.
I need to talk IG strategy.
I don’t. It’s not that complicated.
The Fiance is allergic to coconut. She can’t eat anything spicy. I got her off Miracle Whip and ketchup. But the coconut and spicy is not a preference, but a hard no.
It’s not the cooking separate stuff, it’s trying to store it all. And the extra dishes. The shutdown has us buying mass quantities of groceries instead of small, fresh items.
Farmers market is open tomorrow. I hope the Oh Henry peaches are in season. It’s usually mid-July to early August. Last year, it was really late. I hope this year it’s not too late; everything seems early this year.
I’m going to need a divorce. Or some sort of dissolution of planned matrimony. Pick eaters are a hard noe. 🙂
It’s the acid reflux (GERD). She’s the opposite of picky. She could live on Big Macs and corn dogs.
Today I made a cheeseburger pizza with Beyond Meat burgers and put some homemade Big Mac sauce on it. It was so good! Then I made sugar cookies. Now I’m having a cocktail and watching season 2 of 90 Day Fiancé Before the 90 Days.
Hope you’re all enjoying your weekend and TT I hope you loved your soup!
Homemade Big Mac sauce is a staple in my house as is homemade Cain’s sauce. We’re all about the extras and the cheapness. I’m not even kidding; there’s a jar of Rouse’s “59 steak sauce” in the refrigerator. It makes me laugh every time I see it. Gotta give the original credit though, the 59 is just too ketchupy to compete but I’ll happily eat it with fried things.
I cooked some frozen fried cod in the oven tonight for dinner for me and the kiddos. And french fries. With ketchup. I wish my kids would eat better, healthier foods, but at least they are eating. And I kinda like that fried food better too.
I’m not a huge fish fan, but this looks good! We bbq’d ribs. Now counting down the mins until these ufc fights are over so I can binge Homeland. Not a Claire Danes fan, but damn I love this show!
Well that trumps tonight’s dinner of Popeye’s chicken! Lol! Cooking is great therapy and I’m sure you have amazing taste! 💝💖💗
I have this thing where I am not hungry after I cook, so the soup will have to wait until tomorrow. A neighbor was here taking care of my lawn today. I gave him a bit not knowing if he would eat it and it was gone very quickly. So it should be even better tomorrow…or later today or whatever day we are on…. 🙂
Soups and stews almost always taste better after the flavors have married. Unless there is fat floating on top (like in chicken and beef broths), I always end up eating some cold in the middle of the night.
Also, this Marriage Boot Camp is a new low even for Phaedra. It’s horrible. And she has been upstaged by ERRYBODY. She looks old enough to be everyone’s mama. And dear God she need some help with her hair. Tonight she had an Andy Cohen side pony of fake hair that made her look ridiculous. She is trying and failing to “look young” And Medina, I mean Brent, is the best looking fake boyfriend on the show, but they are so not in a relationship.
Wow, even on your day off, you continue to research and work! I’m happy to see the recipe and now I need some ingredients.
So I never really at my dish but I tasted it a lot. Today I heated it up and first stuck my finger in it (which is fine because I am the only one who is eating it) and gave it another tastes and found a piece of glass in my mouth. Then I tasted in another spot with a spoon and another piece of glass. I do not see how this is possible. But now I am having to stain everything and keep the liquid base and pick out the lobster and shrimp and the tiny cherry tomatoes I left whole and toss the rest. The last hunk of glass I took out looks kind of like a piece of lobster shell. But I chopped up the lobster a bit and feel like I would have noticed a shell. And I can’t break the piece with my bare hand. Everything that went into the pot was canned or jarred. I didn’t break any glass and even if I did pretty much all the glasses in my house are cobalt blue. The glass is white. It’s a mystery to me and there seems to be a rather large amount. I hope I didn’t kill my neighbor who is clearing out my back yard due to an exceptional number of snakes in the area this year. On of which sent Lawn Kid basically running for his life recently. Any idea how this could happen? I really don’t have any clear glass in my house…
Finally strained everything and took out a total of six shards and threw away most everything but the shrimp/lobster/tiny whole tomatoes from the garden and the broth. Added a can of clams and a bottle of clam juice. Still a bit concerned about eating it. but the broth is delicious.
Weird! Did you figure out where the shards came from? Stuff like that freaks me out but you recipe guidelines sound fabulous!
Adding I would never eat Tilapia! Gack!
Nope and even after straining smaller pieces remained.
There must have been some glass in one of the tins you used maybe the coconut milk? What else could it be?? Such a shame the recipe sounds delicious!
On the bright side it’s not as though the flies had a pool party. Bowl half full.
I wonder what in the world happened?
Wow that recipe looks amazing. I will have to give it a go!
Side note: I don’t want to overwhelm you, as I know you were taking a much needed break, but will you be recapping love after lock up this season? Just curious. I’m enjoying it so far 😂
I am trying this recipe after my next grocery trip. Looks delish and we need something different!
So where is the best place to order seafood online? I wanted to get some things for a special meal for my husband for this birthday. Our local place doesn’t have great options.
I used to order from the first place a friend used to send me fish from. But alas, I don’t remember the name. The second place was not the same. It’s had to find good fish online.
If your husband likes pork chops, I might as well be the spokes person for Frenched Berkshire pork chops from http://www.dartagnan.com In fact I am eating one right now with sweet potato, mango, pineapple, jalapeno and onions… I’m in a foul mood because taxes are dude tomorrow and I owe more than my credit limit due to owing 2019 taxes and a a year of 2020 taxes. WHEN CAN WE JUST GET A FUCKING FLAT TAX? It’s taken me several days and I’m still not quite done.
Also, I need a shower bad due to panic attack sweats. And there have been people in my back yard for three days. GRRR. I NEED IT ALL TO END.
Thank you!!!! Particularly in the midst of all that ruckus. Celebrate when it all quiets down a bit.
On the brighter side I’ve picked out and engagement ring just in case someone may be fixin’ to ask me to marry. Spark and court my. heart.
Okay, I am having a shit day full of panic attacks and just trying to PAY THE DAMN MAN somehow. I’ve been on the verge of poor pitiful me tears all day. Anxiety is BEYOND.
BUT THIS NEWS MAKES MY DAY AND NOW I HAVE HAPPY TEARS. I could not be happier for you. You MUST give us the whole story about the engagement that “might” happen.
Hi TT! I’m late to the party as usual but a friend made the stew for me and it was delicious!! Thanks for sharing!