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Hudut

Name: Hudut
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belize
Ingredients: 500g (fillets) White Fish Fillet; 400ml Coconut milk; 3 Green banana; 1 (ripe) Bananas; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Green Bell Pepper; A pinch Thyme; A pinch Black Pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 300ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Coconut milk fish soup eaten with mashed cooking bananas — a traditional Garifuna dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Hudut is a traditional dish of the Garifuna people of southern Belize: sere, a soup of fish simmered in coconut milk, is eaten with hudut, green and ripe bananas pounded together with a pestle. Garifuna food culture, along with their music and language, is part of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a seaside home in Dangriga in southern Belize, a mound of banana pounded in a wooden mortar sits beside a bowl of coconut milk fish soup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

White Fish Fillet 500g (fillets)
Coconut milk 400ml
Green banana 3
Bananas 1 (ripe)
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Green Bell Pepper 1
Thyme A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Salt 1 tsp
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Season the fish with salt and pepper.
Bring the coconut milk, water, sliced onion, garlic, green pepper, and thyme to a boil in a pot.
Add the fish and simmer on low for 15 minutes.
Peel the green and ripe bananas, boil, and mash with a pestle, kneading until dough-like.
Shape the mashed banana into mounds in bowls and serve with the fish soup.

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