Ready to bring a slice of paradise to your dinner table? Keep your New Year’s resolution to be healthy and live pure by preparing this absolutely delicious and authentic meal straight from the island of Bora Bora. Most Bora Bora natives eat a very lean diet including fish, shellfish, chicken, cassava, yams, and rice, and use pure ingredients like lime juice, coconut milk (which has several health benefits), and vanilla in both sweet and salty dishes. Try one of our favorite recipes: Marinated Raw Fish with Coconut Milk, and prepare to be whisked away!
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Marinated Raw Fish and Coconut Milk:
Ingredients:
500 g fish fillets
1 teaspoon salt
3 lemons or limes ( keep 2 lemons slices)
2 tomatoes
1 cucumber
1 carrot
1 medium onion
400 ml coconut milk (fresh coconut milk if you can)
Ustensils:
1 medium bowl
1 cutting board
1 knife
Directions:
1) Cut fish into cubed pieces.
Take a bowl, add the fish
2) Sprinkle fish with salt and lemon juice.
Leave in the fridge for 5 – 10 minutes to marinate.
If you are not comfortable eating raw fish, cover and chill for 2 hours or overnight, until fish whitens. Lemon juice lightly cooks fish.
3) Cut the onion, carrot, tomatoes and cucumber. Keep chilled.
4) When the fish is ready, mix the onion, carrot, tomatoes and cucumber together in the bowl, then add the coconut milk.
Stir, garnish with 1/2 lemon slices and your meal is ready!
Serve chilled