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Fish a lo Macho

Fish a lo Macho
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Fish a lo Macho

Course: All Recipes, Main DishesCuisine: Peruvian
Servings

2

servings

Fish a lo Macho is a bold Peruvian dish featuring tender white fish fillets topped with a flavorful seafood medley of mussels, shrimp, squid, and clams. Infused with garlic, aji amarillo, ají panca, and a splash of Pisco, this dish is rich, spicy, and creamy, served alongside golden seared potatoes and fresh lime wedges.

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Ingredients

  • 2 filets white fish aprox. 6oz

  • 4 mussels

  • 6 medium size shrimp (save the peeling for stock)

  • 6 oz squid, cut in rings

  • 6 clean clams

  • 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion

  • 2 Tbsp minced garlic

  • 1 tomato pealed without seeds, and finely chopped

  • 1 Tbsp “aji amarilo molido”

  • 1 Tbsp "ají panca molido”

  • 1/2 cup white wine

  • 1 oz. Peruvian Pisco

  • 1/4 cup cream

  • 2 medium size golden potatoes, peeled, boiled and seared cut in half

  • 3 limes, cut in 4 pieces

  • salt

  • pepper

  • 1/4 Tsp. cumin

  • vegetable oil

Directions

  • Heat the oil in an large pan. Add onions, garlic and the shrimp skin, and cook until tender.
  • Add tomatoes, aji panca and aji Amarillo and cook mixing it for a few minutes.
  • Add wine, pisco and cook to a boil. Finally add the cream, season, let rest the sauce, blend and strain.
  • In a hot pan add all the seafood according to their textures: first the clams, then the squid, after those, the mussels and shrimp.
  • Add the sauce, let it cook and add salt, pepper and cumin.
  • Separately season the fish, and sear it with hot oil. Finish cooking it in the oven.
  • For plating, place the fish in the middle and cover with the seafood sauce.
  • Serve with white rice, and the precooked seared potatoes. Decorate with some fresh cilantro and limes wedges.

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