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Attiéké with fish
Steamed fermented cassava couscous with grilled fish and a sharp onion salad.
4 servings · 55 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 4 servings.
- 500 g Attiéké
- 4 piece Tilapia or sea bream, whole, gutted
- 3 piece Onions
- 3 piece Tomatoes
- 2 piece Chilli
- 5 clove Garlic
- 30 g Ginger
- 1 piece Stock cube
- 2 piece Lemons
- 80 ml Vegetable oil
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Grind the garlic, ginger, chilli, stock cube, salt and oil into a paste.
- Slash the fish at the sides and rub the paste inside the cuts and over the skin. Leave it twenty minutes.
- Break up the attiéké with your hands, sprinkle it with hot water and salt it.
- Cover it and let it steam ten minutes, in a steamer or simply covered somewhere warm.
- Slice the onion, tomatoes and chilli and mix them with lemon juice, salt and a spoon of oil.
- Grill the fish over coals or in a griddle pan, seven minutes a side.
- Serve the attiéké, fish and salad on one plate, with a wedge of lemon.
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