Description
Steam fish with boiled plantains.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 fishes paves
- 2 tomatoes cut in quarters
- 2 yellow onions chopped julienne (chopped in big vertical slices)
- 2 greens onions stalks (chopped)
- 1 green peppers (chopped in big vertical slices)
- 4 green habanero peppers
- 1 thumb size ginger root peeled and sliced
- 1 tsp of bay leaves powder or 3 dry bay leaves
- 2 cups of water
- ½ cup of olive oil
- 2 ripe plantains
Instructions
- Put them in a bowl with all the ingredients.
- Use a wooden spoon to mix all them.
- On a platter, form three X’s with your foil paper by overlapping them in a way that there isn’t any more empty space.
- Put a parchment paper on top only if you plan to keep the banana leaves to serve.
- Add two banana leaves on top to form a cross
- Put two pieces of fish in the center with an assortment of all of the ingredients with some liquid
- Close your liboké one layer at the time starting with the banana leaves
- Make sure that all of the pieces get the liquid
Cooking on stove:
- Pour some water in a double boiler in a way that the water touches the bottom of your liboké.
- Put your liboké in boiler and cook it on medium to low heat for 1 hour.
- The fish is cooked when the flesh is white everywhere.
In the oven
- Preheat the oven at 350F.
- Pour some water in an oven pan so that the liboké bottom part sits in the water.
- Cook it for one hour
- The fish is cooked when the flesh is white everywhere.
To serve:
- Remove it from the water and let it cool for 20 min.
- Remove the foil paper first, then place your liboké on a crease plate.
- If the water hasn’t leaked from on the parchment paper, you can remove it and serve the fish with the banana leaves.
For the plantains:
- Cut them in three pieces with skin on
- Put them in a big pot with water covering them on medium high heat.
- They are cooked once you can pierce the plantains without effort with a butter knife.