Moqueca is a Brazilian recipe based on salt water fish stew in coconut milk, tomatoes, onions, garlic, coriander and some palm oil. Slowly cooked in a terra cotta casserole optionally serve with prawns and choosing by preference a mix of boneless fish species like small shark, sword fish, etc.
Originally from the states of Bahia in the Northeast, also coming from Espírito Santo in the Southeast of Brazil; nowadays, this dish is found in two different variants: moqueca bahiana and moqueca capixaba.