Island Fish Salad

This is the most delicious thing I've learned to cook at Vanuatu that I cannot possibly cook at site.

Island Fish Salad

Extremely fresh fish
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Maybe a little onion
Coconut milk
Salt
Lemon or lime

Take your fish and cut it up into tiny little pieces. Squeeze a terrific amount of lemon or lime juice on top. Put the fish into a refrigerator to sit. The lemon juice will 'cook' the fish and make it opaque.

When the fish is ready, chop up tomato and cucumber into tiny cubes. Chop some onion, too, if you want.

Mix the tomato, cucumber, onion, and fish together. Then dress with coconut milk. The ideal texture (in my opinion) is a little soupy but not too watery.



They do this in Samoa without the onion but with a lot more coconut milk and bigger chunks of fish. Supposedly the style you see in restaurants here in Vanuatu is Tahitian-style. Whatever it is, it's delicious and the best thing ever.

Eat with garlic bread or salad.