DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Azul Marinho
Also known as: Peixe Azul-Marinho
Fish and green banana with a cassava-flour pirão and white rice.
About Azul Marinho
Azul-marinho is a caiçara fish-and-green-banana dish associated with Ilhabela and the northern São Paulo coast. Cidade e Cultura publishes this traditional account from Nivaldo Simões’s book, pairing fish steaks with a banana-and-cassava-flour pirão.
Tomato, onion and leafy herbs season the broth. The banana is cooked in its skin, which the account associates with the dish’s dark colour. This rendition uses the source’s suggested bijupirá fish and basil option.
The fish is accompanied by a loose pirão made from banana, cassava flour and its cooking broth. White rice and cachaça accompany the meal, with malagueta pepper as an optional addition.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Azul Marinho
Nivaldo Simões’s traditional Ilhabela azul-marinho, published by Cidade e Cultura.
- Bijupirá fish steaksProteinIngredient page not linked
- Green São Tomé bananaBase
- Artisanal cassava flourBase
- WaterLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- TomatoAromatic
- OnionAromatic
- Coentro-cachorro leavesAromaticIngredient page not linked
- BasilAromatic
- Malagueta pepperSeasoning · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- White riceAccompaniment
- CachaçaAccompanimentIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Bijupirá fish steaks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual267 preferred bijupira selected from fish options; Fish positive, exact catalogue candidate and scientific species unverified.
- Green São Tomé banana: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual267 preferred Sao Tome green banana, skin-on270 and peeled for pirao271. Broader green banana candidate, cultivar mapping not independently established.
- Artisanal cassava flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual267-268 farinha-da-terra expressly made from grated/pressed mandioca; exact artisanal flour form and goma inclusion unknown.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit boiling water270 and retained cooking broth271-272, no separate stock recipe.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Coentro-cachorro leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual271 local broad-leaf creeping coentro-cachorro; botanical/candidate identity unproved, no forced conventional coriander leaf or culantro species.
- Basil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual271 manjericao explicitly offered instead of alfavaca; this actual branch selected, no botanical species inferred.
- Malagueta pepper (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual272 optional pimenta alternatives; malagueta selected, exact candidate species unconfirmed.
- White rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual272 prepared white-rice side, complete separate recipe unprovided.
- Cachaça: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual272 cachacinha accompanying drink; exact formula/product unknown, no invented catalogue match or sulphite presence.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Brazil
- BrazilCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Caiçara Cuisine
- Caiçara CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.