Baked Fish in Banana Leaves
Baked Fish in Banana Leaves

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baked fish in banana leaves. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Fish in Banana Leaves is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Baked Fish in Banana Leaves is something that I have loved my whole life.

Place the fish in the center of the leaf and pour the remaining marinade over. Use the other piece of banana leaf to form the top, and secure the sides with toothpicks. Fold the banana leaves over the fish to seal, and place something heavy and ovenproof on top to keep in place. Fish is eaten in almost every form, be it a curry, stew, fry, dried or baked.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked fish in banana leaves using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Fish in Banana Leaves:
  1. Take 2 fish,can be fillet,chopped or whole fish like mine
  2. Get 2 lemongrass stalk
  3. Make ready 8 kaffir lime leaves
  4. Take 1 galangal,slices
  5. Take 4 clove garlic
  6. Get 10 hot thai chilli,dried or fresh
  7. Take 1 turmeric ,slices
  8. Make ready 1 tsp salt or use half tsp shrimps paste and half tsp salt
  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp fish sauce or soy sauce
  10. Make ready 1 bunch banana leaves
  11. Get 8 toothpicks

Traditionally, 'Kari meenu' or pearl spot fish is used for this where an entire fish is marinated in spices, coated […] Cut fish into large pieces, wash and pat dry. Mix the garlic, chillies, coriander leaves, coconut, lime or lemon juice, tamarind, sugar, cumin and salt into a paste and smear over fish. Grease foil (if using) with ghee. Place a piece of fish on a banana leaf or foil piece and fold so fish is encased.

Steps to make Baked Fish in Banana Leaves:
  1. Select fish ,fresh,clean ,tradition can be chopped fish ,small fish ,fish fillet ,or the whole one like i cook today,make fews cut on each side of fish if use whole one
  2. Slice lemongrass,galangal,turmeric ,seperate half amouth to make a paste ( pound or blend with chilli,salt ) the rest use to stuff fish,tear kaffir lime leaves ,set aside
  3. Clean and prepare banana leaves ,by tear big enough to cover the whole fish ,use at least 4 layers each
  4. In mixing bowl,add chilli paste to fish ,mix well with slices herbs ,add fishsauce ,or soya sauce ,stuff some herbs inside the fish
  5. Lay fish on prepared banana leaves ,wrap it up ,use toothpick to help
  6. Bake on charcoal on low heat until banana wrap dark ,or bake on pan on low heat ,cover lid
  7. Open and serve with fresh vegetables,rice

Grease foil (if using) with ghee. Place a piece of fish on a banana leaf or foil piece and fold so fish is encased. Fold each leaf piece to enclose fish. Place packets, folded side down, on a baking sheet. In the oven, the banana leaves will become discolored and dry out, this is totally normal and all part of the flavor-infusing process.

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