🇻🇺 Ni-Vanuatu Cuisine

Raw Fish Salad

Lime-Cured Fish with Coconut

Prep Time 20 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Easy
Calories 224 kcal

Fresh fish cured in lime juice with coconut cream, onion, and chili. A refreshing Pacific appetizer.

Ingredients

  • 500g fresh tuna, diced
  • 4 limes, juiced
  • 1/2 cup coconut cream
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 hot pepper, minced
  • 1 cucumber, diced
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tomato, diced

Instructions

  1. 1 Dice fish into small cubes.
  2. 2 Toss with lime juice, let sit 15 minutes.
  3. 3 Drain excess lime.
  4. 4 Add coconut cream, onion, pepper, cucumber, tomato.
  5. 5 Season with salt.
  6. 6 Serve chilled immediately.

Did You Know?

This Pacific-wide dish goes by different names in each island nation but the technique is universal.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/ni-vanuatu/raw-fish-salad-vanuatu/