'Ota 'ika
Template:Short description Template:Infobox prepared food ʻOta ʻika is a Oceanian dish consisting of raw fish marinated in citrus juice and coconut milk. The Tongan, Tahitian, and Samoan variants are essentially identical in that the raw fish is briefly marinated in lemon or lime juice until the surface of the flesh becomes opaque. The fish is then mixed with coconut milk and diced vegetables (most commonly cucumber, tomato, carrots, onion, green onion, and spicy peppers). This is the national dish of Tonga.
Names
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- Nauru: coconut fish
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The dish is otherwise known as coconut fish in Nauru, kokoda in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, oka in Samoa, ika mata in the Cook Islands and New Zealand, oraora in Kiribati, and simply poisson cru on the French islands.[1] The word "ota" means "raw" within the Polynesian language group, although the more common term for the dish in French Polynesia is its French equivalent, "poisson cru" (literally, "raw fish").[2][3] Any type of seafood can be used to make "ota," the word "ika" means fish ("i'a" in Samoan language), but the dish is often prepared with mussels ("ota pipi/maso"), prawns ("ota ulavai"), crab ("ota pa'a/paka"), lobster ("ota ula"), octopus/squid ("ota fe'e/feke"), sea urchin ("ota vana/tuitui"), and eel ("ota pusi").
Gallery
- Variants
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Cook Islands Ika mata.
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Tuna Poisson cru, served on a banana leaf.
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Kokoda in Fiji
Similar dishes
Similar dishes are the kinilaw and Script error: No such module "Lang". of the Philippines, and the kelaguen of the Marianas Islands. The Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang". salmon of Hawaii are also similar. It is also similar to the Latin American ceviche, though the latter is relatively recent and may be a derivative dish, as citruses are not native to the Americas.
See also
- Hinava
- Crudo
- Hoe
- Hoe-deopbap
- List of hors d'oeuvre
- List of raw fish dishes
- List of salads
- Tataki
- Singju
- Yusheng
Sources
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Further reading
- "ʻOta ʻika (raw fish in coconut milk)", The Polynesian Kitchen
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- Niuean cuisine
- Nauruan cuisine
- Norfolk Island cuisine
- Gilbertese cuisine
- Samoan cuisine
- Tokelauan cuisine
- Tongan cuisine
- Tuvaluan cuisine
- Pitcairn Islands cuisine
- Wallis and Futuna cuisine
- Polynesian cuisine
- Melanesian cuisine
- Micronesian cuisine
- Oceanian cuisine
- Uncooked fish dishes
- Seafood dishes
- Raw fish salads
- Fijian cuisine