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Katkat Banann

Name: Katkat Banann
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Seychelles
Ingredients: 4 Green banana; 300g White Fish Fillet; 400ml Coconut milk; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; A pinch Thyme; 1/2 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 200ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Green bananas and fish stewed in coconut milk — a Seychellois home stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Katkat banann is a traditional Seychellois home dish: green cooking bananas are stewed with fresh or salted fish in coconut milk until the bananas break down and thicken the pot. A simple one-pot dish, it has sustained island life. It's eaten with a little chili sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a kitchen on a Seychelles island, green bananas and fish simmer in coconut milk, and the thick stew is ladled into bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Green banana 4
White Fish Fillet 300g
Coconut milk 400ml
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Thyme A pinch
Chili pepper 1/2
Salt 1 tsp
Water 200ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel the bananas and cut large.
Bring the coconut milk, water, sliced onion, garlic, thyme, chili, and salt to a boil in a pot.
Add the bananas and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the bite-size fish and simmer 10 minutes.
Lightly mash some of the bananas to thicken.

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