
Ingredients
ServingsOriginal: Serves 4
- Tilapia or carp, whole, gutted4
- Banana leaves12
- Tomatoes4
- Onions2
- Garlic6 cloves
- Ginger30 g
- Pili-pili chilli2
- Lemons2
- Spring onions4
- Cassava, to serve500 g
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Slash the fish at the sides and rub it with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
Grind the garlic, ginger and chilli to a paste and work it into the cuts and the cavity.
Pass the banana leaves over a flame so they turn pliable and stop cracking.
Lay tomato and onion slices on a leaf, the fish on them, then more tomato and spring onion.
Wrap in three leaves into a tight parcel and tie it with a strip of the same leaf.
Set the parcels on the coals and bake them fifteen minutes a side.
Serve them still in the leaf, with boiled cassava or rice.
