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Stew Fish

Name: Stew Fish
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Bahamas
Ingredients: 4 fillets White Fish Fillet; 3 tbsp All-purpose flour; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 Onion; 1/2 Celery; 1 Tomato; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; A pinch Thyme; 1 Lime; 1/2 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 400ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

White fish stewed in a brown roux with tomato — a Bahamian home fish stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Stew fish is Bahamian home cooking: onion, celery, tomato, and thyme are added to a roux of flour browned in oil, and white fish is stewed in it. Along with boil fish, it's a Bahamian breakfast staple, eaten with grits or johnny cake.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday morning in a Bahamian home, a pot of fish stew in brown sauce sits beside bowls of corn porridge.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

White Fish Fillet 4 fillets
All-purpose flour 3 tbsp
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Onion 1
Celery 1/2
Tomato 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Thyme A pinch
Lime 1
Chili pepper 1/2
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 400ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Sprinkle the fish with lime juice and salt, let stand 15 minutes, dust with a little flour, fry in oil, and remove.
Put oil and flour in the same pot and cook, stirring, until brown.
Add the onion, celery, tomato, and tomato paste and fry.
Add water, thyme, and chili and simmer 10 minutes.
Return the fish, simmer 10 minutes, and season with pepper.

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