Before you can enjoy seafood, the fishing community must first find it. If you live near the sea, you will certainly see early in the morning men and women walking on the beach and in the lagoon at low tide with buckets collecting shellfish which can be tec-tec, crabs, kono-kono, sea cucumber, hermit crabs or others. All of this is then sold to restaurants and hotels on the coast. Further out, on the barrier reef at low tide, other people will be looking for larger crabs, octopus or even lobster.
Mauritius is not a caviar or salmon paradise, but marlin is. Far out in the deep blue, boats and fishing enthusiasts fish for marlin. Once caught, the marlin is usually smoked with pine wood. You'll love a good slice of smoked marlin with a squeeze of fresh lemon to start the tasting of the local cuisine. Otherwise you will find in the restaurants dishes based on shrimps, lobsters, octopus, crabs…
Ingredients (for 4 people)
250 g clams
360 g shrimp
180 g squid
180 g white fish
50 g chopped red onion
10 g lemongrass
1 large tomato cut into strips
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 green chillies, crushed
10 g chopped coriander
40 cl lemon juice
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. sugar
salt
Make a dressing by adding half the lime juice, sugar, garlic, chilli, coriander and fish sauce. Fill a pot with water. Add the lemongrass, the remaining lemon juice and a little salt. Bring to the boil. Poach the seafood and fish for 2 to 3 minutes. Place on a bed of ice cubes to stop the cooking process, then drain. Mix the seafood, fish, tomato slices and chopped onion in a bowl. Pour in the vinaigrette and serve.
500 g squid
2 eggs
100 g cornflour
salt and pepper
sunflower oil
500 g squid
Ingredients
500g of crab
1 tomato
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon of crushed ginger
2 large green or red chillies (optional)
4 curry leaves
3-4 sprigs of thyme
Fresh coriander
Salt (to taste)
3 tablespoons oil
1.5 litres of water
½ minced onion
½ onion, chopped
Heat the oil in a pot.
Add the garlic, ginger, onion, curry leaves, chillies, thyme and salt and allow to sweat.
Then add the tomato, cut into small cubes, and leave to cook a little.
Put the crab in the pot, stir and cover for 5mins.
Add the water and boil for 15 minutes.
Sprinkle with chopped fresh coriander.