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Bake and Shark

Name: Bake and Shark
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Trinidad and Tobago
Ingredients: 4 fillets White Fish Fillet; 2 tbsp Lime juice; 2 cloves Garlic; 2 sprigs Thyme; 300g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 170ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; 1/8 Cabbage; 1 Tomato; 100g Pineapple; 1 bunch Cilantro; 3 tbsp Mayonnaise

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⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Fried fish in puffy fried bread with your choice of sauces — Maracas Beach's famous sandwich.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bake and shark is the specialty of Maracas Beach on Trinidad's north coast: spice-marinated fried shark fillet is tucked into puffy fried bread (bake). At the stalls you can add as much pineapple, cabbage, tomato, garlic sauce, tamarind sauce, and shadon beni herb sauce as you like. At home it's usually made with white fish.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In front of a stall at Maracas Beach, swimmers take fried fish sandwiches and add one sauce after another from the long lineup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

White Fish Fillet 4 fillets
Lime juice 2 tbsp
Garlic 2 cloves
Thyme 2 sprigs
All-purpose flour 300g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 170ml
Oil for frying To taste
Cabbage 1/8
Tomato 1
Pineapple 100g
Cilantro 1 bunch
Mayonnaise 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the fish with lime juice, grated garlic, thyme, and salt and let stand 30 minutes.
Knead the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt with water, rest 30 minutes, divide into 4, and flatten to palm size.
Fry the dough in 180°C oil until puffed.
Dust the fish with flour and fry until crisp.
Slit the bread, tuck in the fish, and top with cabbage, tomato, pineapple, and a sauce of chopped cilantro mixed with mayonnaise.

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