World Flavors Cookbook

Tapado Caribeño

Honduran Caribbean coast seafood stew in coconut milk — fish, shrimp, crab, yuca, and plantain in a rich Garifuna coconut broth.

Cuisine: Honduras

Ingredients

• 400g white fish fillets
• 200g shrimp
• 2 blue crabs, cleaned and halved
• 400ml coconut milk
• 2 green plantains, sliced
• 300g yuca, cubed
• 1 onion, diced
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 Scotch bonnet pepper (whole)
• Cilantro
• Salt

Instructions

1. Sauté onion and garlic until soft.
2. Add coconut milk and enough water to cover.
3. Add plantain and yuca. Cook 15 minutes.
4. Add fish and crab. Cook 10 minutes.
5. Add shrimp in last 5 minutes.
6. Add Scotch bonnet whole (for heat without breaking).
7. Season. Add cilantro.