🇹🇻 Tuvaluan Cuisine

Raw Fish Salad Tuvalu

Lime-Cured Fish with Coconut

Prep Time 20 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Easy
Calories 224 kcal

Fresh fish diced and cured in lime juice with coconut cream, onion, and chili. Cool and tangy.

Ingredients

  • 500g fresh tuna, diced
  • 5 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 cubes.
  2. 2 Toss with lime juice, sit 20 minutes.
  3. 3 Drain excess lime.
  4. 4 Add coconut cream, onion, pepper, cucumber, tomato.
  5. 5 Season with salt.
  6. 6 Serve chilled.

Did You Know?

This Tuvaluan version of Pacific raw fish uses extra coconut cream for richness.

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