Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, fish in banana leaves. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fish in Banana leaves is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Fish in Banana leaves is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
This Thai fish dish is marinated in coconut sauce and baked in a banana leaf (or parchment paper or tin foil). A variety of grilled banana leaf packages in Chiang Rai. I ordered a couple filled with tilapia (tilapia is very commonly eaten in non-seaside locations in Thailand).
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have fish in banana leaves using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fish in Banana leaves:
- Take big- 1 Savala chopped to small thin pieces(small onions)
- Take 1 tbsp ginger garlic - grated(paste)- each
- Get 3/4 tbsp pepper powder
- Take 1 tsp turmeric
- Get 2 nos Tomato peeled
- Make ready 3 sprigs curry leaves
- Prepare 1 tbsp oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp Butter
- Make ready 1 tsp salt - (to taste)
Fold the banana leaf to make a small packet. Banana leaves can be found in most Latin American or Southeast Asian markets - usually, they're found in the freezer section. They have a pleasant scent that smells somewhat like tea, and wrapping fish in banana leaves and steaming them imparts some of the banana leaf flavor in them. Grind the coriander leaves, chillies, coconut, cumin and garlic to a fine paste.
Instructions to make Fish in Banana leaves:
- Fish pieces are cleaned with salt and vinegar and marinated for minimum 30 minutes Marination masala is prepared as follows.In a pan, saute the savala, ginger,garlic,curry leaves,tomatos with little oil,till the raw smell of savala disappears. Take out from fire and add turmeric powder, chilli powder,pepper powder and salt.Blend everything smooth in a mixie. Marinate the fish and keep aside.
- Cut Banana leaves in rectangular shapes and show them over light flame or put them over a hot thava so that the leaves will become soft and pliable. clean the leaves, wipe them and grease each leaf with little butter or oil. Fold the marinated fish pieces inside each leaf, tie them with a thread taking care to see that water does not get inside the masala. Arrange them one by one in a idly cooker and cook them over steam for about 20 -25 minutes.Take out the cooking pan from the stove. The…
- Alternatively you can put the fish pieces covered in banana leaf in a hot thava with little oil sprinkled in the pan and cook in low fire closed, sprinking water over it occasionally and turning both sides This is also tasty but more care has to be applied as the fish has to be cooked enough without getting burnt.
I'd never cooked with banana leaves before, so I vowed to come home and familiarize myself with them. Cooks throughout the Indian subcontinent, Latin America But the best banana-leaf-wrapped dish I've tried is a Parsi one: Patra Ni Machhi, or flaky white fish coated with a spicy coconut chutney. Fish in banana leaf or often referred to as Liboke de Poisson (Congolese dialect) which means pouches of food cooked in banana leaves - in this case They certainly do - Banana/Plantain leaves leave a very distinct flavor and are fundamental in lots of dishes - throughout Africa, Central America. This steamed fish is wrapped in banana leaves and tied with bamboo. Surprise your dinner guests with this beautifully presented meal.
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