Fish and Coconut Soup (Sancocho de Pescado con Coco)

Name: Fish and Coconut Soup (Sancocho de Pescado con Coco)
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 910 g white fish fillets; 1190 ml fish stock; 710 ml coconut milk; 30 g butter; 160 g onion; 4 pc garlic; 80 g red bell pepper; 80 g green bell pepper; 200 g tomatoes; 30 g scallion; 2 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp achiote powder; 450 g green plantain; 450 g yuca; 2 pc sweetcorn; 5 g coriander or flat-leaf parsley; ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper

A thick, coastal Colombian fish and coconut soup with tender starchy vegetables and aromatic spices.

60 min 833 kcal/serving serves 4

833kcal49gprotein125gcarbs17gfat

Erica DinhoView the original on mycolombianrecipes.com More from Erica Dinho on Mello

🐟white fish fillets

🐟fish stock

🥛coconut milk

🧈butter

🧅onion

🧄garlic

🫑red bell pepper

🫑green bell pepper

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About Erica Dinho

Colombian home cook and founder of My Colombian Recipes

Erica Dinho is the creator of My Colombian Recipes, a long-running blog dedicated to traditional Colombian home cooking. She has spent years documenting regional dishes and family recipes, helping introduce Colombian cuisine to a wider audience online.

Her recipes stay close to traditional Colombian home cooking, built around staples like plantains, corn, pork, and beans, with dishes ranging from hearty soups such as ajiaco and sancocho to fried snacks like patacones and buñuelos. She favors classic techniques and familiar regional flavor combinations over reinvention, aiming to make dishes like tamales antioqueños and bandeja paisa approachable for home kitchens.

Ten Colombian recipes on Mello, imported from mycolombianrecipes.com.