Sekai no Shokutaku
Liboke de poisson

DR Congo / Main

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Liboke de poisson

Spiced fish wrapped in a banana leaf and baked in embers.

Ingredients

ServingsServes 4Original: Serves 4

Method 7 steps

  1. Slash the fish at the sides and rub it with salt, pepper and lemon juice.

  2. Grind the garlic, ginger and chilli to a paste and work it into the cuts and the cavity.

  3. Pass the banana leaves over a flame so they turn pliable and stop cracking.

  4. Lay tomato and onion slices on a leaf, the fish on them, then more tomato and spring onion.

  5. Wrap in three leaves into a tight parcel and tie it with a strip of the same leaf.

  6. Set the parcels on the coals and bake them fifteen minutes a side.

  7. Serve them still in the leaf, with boiled cassava or rice.