Caribbean Fish Curry Recipe

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Published Sep 29, 2021 ∙ Kristina Stosek

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Caribbean Fish Curry is a flavorful curry dish made with white fish, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and onions simmered in a light coconut curry sauce.

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The spices that bring out the deliciousness of the fresh fish and vegetables are cumin, curry powder and garlic. To add a spark of freshness to this fish dish, a good splash of fresh lime juice. The lime juice adds a zesty flavour balancing the creamy coconut curry flavor.

This Caribbean-inspired fish curry dish is light, healthy and packed with flavor. If you’re focusing on healthy weight loss, you’ll love my collection of nourishing gluten-free recipes.

best fish to use in curries

The best fish is a firm-textured fish with moist, white flesh, delicate and mild in flavour. This is why I chose healthy cod or snapper, also a healthy white fish option. Both are ideal for curry dishes because the fish will not fall apart.

Caribbean fish curry

Caribbean Fish Curry — Recipe Overview

To start, sauté onions with garlic in coconut oil. Then stir in the spices until they become aromatic. This takes just a few seconds, be careful not to burn the spices.

Follow with adding the diced tomatoes and coconut milk. Bring the coconut sauce to a gentle simmer. You don’t want to boil the sauce.

Once the sauce starts to simmer, add the prepared veggies…bell peppers, potatoes, carrots and cabbage and season with salt. The veggies are cooked covered in the sauce and over low heat.

Once the veggies are cooked but firm to bite, add the fish pieces and fresh lime juice. Continue cooking until the fish is fork-tender. Whitefish does not take very long to cook. Depending on the size of your fish pieces, the fish should take only about 5 minutes to cook.

When I serve this Caribbean-style fish curry dish, in the end, I like to add plenty of fresh herbs. The herbs bring extra freshness to this healthy fish dinner dish.

caribbean fish curry

What to serve with fish curry?

My favourite way to serve this insanely delicious fish curry stew is with simple white basmati rice. Because the two are meant to be together. But I have served it over short cut pasta and converted the Caribbean recipe to an Italian dish. Either way, it is so good!

Sometimes if I bake fresh bread that day like the Gluten-Free Italian Bread or the Gluten-Free French Bread, I dip the bread into the sauce soaking up the curry flavoured goodness. 

Keeping the fish curry dinner low-carb.

If you follow a low-carb diet, I recommend adding a high fiber salad like the cabbage and fennel citrus salad; the more fiber, the less net carbs because fiber negates carbs. I would also use only a small potato in the curry and add extra cabbage.

If you are looking for a new fish recipe, you will enjoy this Caribbean-inspired dish. This simple to prepare healthy fish dinner takes about 30 minutes from start to the table, making it an easy healthy weeknight meal for your family. Enjoy!

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Caribbean Fish Curry Recipe

23 reviews
Published Sep 29, 2021 · Kristina Stosek
Prep Time:
15 min
Cooking Time:
25 min
Serves:
4

Ingredients

2 Tbsp. Coconut oil
1 medium yellow onion, halved and thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tsp. GF curry powder
1 tsp. GF ground cumin
1/2 tsp. GF red pepper flakes
15 oz. can diced tomatoes
13.5 oz. can coconut milk
1 red bell pepper, sliced
2 medium carrots, diced
2 cups sliced green cabbage ( about 2-inch wide strips)
1 large potato or sweet potato, peel and cut into small cubes
1 tsp. Sea salt
1 1/2 lb. cod or red snapper fillet, cut into large pieces
Juice of 1 large lime
Optional garnish, chopped fresh herbs such as parsley, cilantro, thyme

Instructions

  1. In a large saucepan sauté onions and garlic in coconut oil until translucent. About 5 minutes
  2. Stir in curry powder, cumin and pepper flakes
  3. Add tomatoes and coconut milk and bring to a gentle simmer, not boil
  4. Add bell pepper, carrots, cabbage, potatoes and salt. Cook over low heat until vegetables are tender. About 15 minutes
  5. Add fish and lime juice and cook for about 5 more minutes, until fish is cooked through

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  1. Will

    this was so good, thank you!

  2. Kristina

    thank you for letting us know!

  3. Jenna R.

    thank you for this simple fish curry dish, my family loved it!

  4. Kristina

    thank you Jenna

  5. Leslie

    This is so delicious and tastes great the next day too.

  6. Kristina

    I am so happy that you enjoyed the fish curry Leslie, thank you.

  7. KJ

    My second time making this recipe in two weeks, haha I super love it!! I shared it with my family and use it as meal prep too

  8. Kristina

    that’s great, thank you for sharing KJ

  9. Rita

    I just made this for the first time and have to say that you nailed the flavours. It was perfect just as it is, no need to change a thing. Thank you so much. This is now marked as a favourite ♥️

  10. Kristina

    Thank you Rita for sharing. K x

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