Coastal Cooking · Fish in Coconut Cream
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Whole reef fish is baked wrapped in leaves with coconut cream, a cooked alternative to Tonga's more famous citrus-cured 'ota 'ika.
A whole reef fish is wrapped in leaves with coconut cream and baked or steamed until tender, served whole at family meals around Vava'u's fishing villages.
Why it's made this way: Vava'u's calm, reef-sheltered waters make it one of Tonga's most productive fishing grounds, and cooking the catch slowly in coconut cream is a standard way island households prepare fish beyond the citrus-cured 'ota 'ika.
Roughly what's in it
310kcal
25gprotein
7gcarbs
20gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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