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Fry Fry

Name: Fry Fry
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Sierra Leone
Ingredients: 4 fillets White Fish Fillet; 4 tbsp All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 2 Green banana; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Baguette

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Fried fish and plantain tucked into bread — a Sierra Leonean night-stall snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fry fry is the general name for fried foods sold at Sierra Leone's night stalls — fried fish, fried plantain, sweet potato, bean fritters — tucked into bread or wrapped in paper. It's eaten with a chili and onion sauce, an essential taste of Freetown's nights.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Freetown street at night, fried fish and bananas line a lamplit stall and are tucked into bread and handed over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

White Fish Fillet 4 fillets
All-purpose flour 4 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Green banana 2
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste
Baguette To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Season the fish with salt and pepper, dust with flour, and fry in 170°C oil.
Slice the bananas diagonally and fry.
Sauté the sliced onion, chopped chili, and tomato paste in a frying pan to make a sauce.
Slit the bread.
Fill with the fried fish and bananas and spoon over the sauce.

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