Fish Tea
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Fish Tea recipe
Ingredients
2lb whole fish2 litres of water
4 green bananas
1 hot pepper (ideally scotch bonnet)
4 scallion
5 Sprigs thyme
2 cloves of garlic
2 potatoes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
Cooking
Wash the fish in water and lemon or lime juiceIf the fish has scales remove them by running a knife against the grain of the scales
Bring the water to the boil, add the fish then simmer for half an hour
Chop the banana, potato, garlic and scallion.
After half an hour of simmering, strain the fish out of the water.
Add the green banana, potato, scallion, garlic, pepper (unchopped) salt and black pepper to the fish stock
When the fish has cooled, seperate the bones from the flesh
Add the fish to the stock and simmer for half an hour.
Serving
Serve in a bowl!© 2007 Jamaica Travel and Culture .com