Liboke de poisson

Ingredients

Quantities for 4 servings.

• 4 piece Tilapia or carp, whole, gutted
• 12 piece Banana leaves
• 4 piece Tomatoes
• 2 piece Onions
• 6 clove Garlic
• 30 g Ginger
• 2 piece Pili-pili chilli
• 2 piece Lemons
• 4 piece Spring onions
• 500 g Cassava, to serve
• to taste Salt and pepper

Method

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.