Raw Fish Salad (Tahitian style)

Ia orana

For all you hungry Tikicentralites & Tikimembers, here is a quick & easy recipe for raw fish salad (Tahitian style).
A must at any polynesian themed gathering.

We often indulge in this typical island dish over here on the other side of the big pond.
It's great tasting, full of proteins and terrific for your health, especialy after a hard night partying.
Try it for breakfast, just to kick start your working day.

For 4-6 serves;

1 Kg (2lbs) of fresh fish fillet (tuna if possible)
1 can of cocconut cream (optional)
8 lemons (pressed for juice)
2 grated carrots
1 or 2 cucumbers (sliced)
2 tomatoes (diced)
1 big oignon (sliced)
spices for taste (garlic, parsley, salt & pepper.

Dice the fish into small ½ inch cubes,
Place your diced fish in a large serving bowl
and add your lemon juice (without the pips) and leave in a cool place for 20 minutes.
Then gently pour out any excess lemon juice and mix in the all the ingredients.

That's it

Serve cool

Bon appetit and may the Mana be with you

Vaïnui

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2004-06-11 18:08 ]

We've had this 4 or 5 times now and it's always a big hit.

I voted to move it to the food and drink but wanted to comment also.

The Malihini need to know!

The onion should be a nice sweet Maui Onion and the Coconut cream can also be made by taking a few coconuts, cutting them and scrapping the coconut "meat" into terry cloth, then wrap it up and squeeze until the fresh coconut juice comes out. Always a great show if you have a blue lagoon and a few chair sitting in it.

If you don't have Maui Onions you can use Wala Walas or Vidalias. If you don't have any of those use the flattest, freshest onion you can find; the flatter the onion the sweeter it tastes, & the freshest onions have the least sulfur compounds to add bitterness.

I find that when using raw onion, after you dice it, rinse it and pat it dry- takes some of the harshness off of it. No need to rinse if you're cooking.

Moving to food and drink....

wow! Sounds tasty like Ceviche!

Better than - Its Tahitian Name is Poissan Crue. Not sure if the spelling is right and its great. You can make it at home but it will never taste as good as it does while in Tahiti on a motu, with a cold Hinano at sunset.

Andy, it's Poisson Crue, or "Raw Fish" in French.