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Pwason Griye

Name: Pwason Griye
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Seychelles
Ingredients: 2 (cleaned) Sea Bream; 3 cloves Garlic; 1 piece Ginger; 1 Chili pepper; 2 Lime; A pinch Thyme; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fish brushed with Creole spice paste and grilled over charcoal — Seychellois beach grilled fish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Seychellois have long lived on fish as their main protein. For pwason griye, snapper, grouper, or other fish is brushed with a paste of garlic, ginger, chili, lime, and thyme, sometimes wrapped in banana leaves, and grilled over charcoal. It's served with rice, Creole sauce, and papaya salad.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Seychelles beach, against giant granite boulders and palm trees, fish grill over charcoal and are plated with rice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Sea Bream 2 (cleaned)
Garlic 3 cloves
Ginger 1 piece
Chili pepper 1
Lime 2
Thyme A pinch
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Score the fish.
Pound the garlic, ginger, and chili and mix with the lime juice, thyme, oil, salt, and pepper.
Spread the paste on the fish and let stand 30 minutes.
Grill over charcoal or under a grill for 8 minutes per side.
Serve with lime and rice.

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