Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, samaki wa kupaka (grilled fish with coconut sauce). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Eating this transports you to a tropical retreat somewhere in the confines of your mind. Were palm trees gently sway to the whispering ocean breeze as you. Then prepare the Coconut Sauce Make a paste out of the garlic cloves and the whole red chillies.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have samaki wa kupaka (grilled fish with coconut sauce) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Samaki wa kupaka (grilled fish with coconut sauce):
- Take 3 large fish (whole) 2 tbsp ginger/garlic paste
- Get 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- Get 3 pcs green chilli
- Make ready Salt
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp Lemon juice
- Make ready coconut sauce
- Prepare ingredient
- Prepare 4-5 cups thick coconut cream
- Take 7 cloves GARLIC
- Make ready salt
- Take lemon juice
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 7 green chilies
Place the tomato puree, onion, tomatoes and spices into a food processor and blend to a paste. See the recipe for Grilled Whole Fish with Tamarind »James Fisher. Today let's prepare some traditional grilled fish in coconut sauce also known as 'samaki wa kupaka'. This is a favourite Swahili dish that is loved in Slice some shallow cuts into the fish on both sides, marinate the fish with the marinade ingredients.
Instructions to make Samaki wa kupaka (grilled fish with coconut sauce):
- Method: - Clean the fish and lightly slice the fish, giving the fish cuts not all the way through (mitai), this will help the fish obtain more flavour. Do it on both sides. - Mix all the ingredients and marinate the fish.
- Next place the fish on a fish BBQ grill basket and close it so the fish doesn’t fall. - Next grill the fish on a charcoal grill until the fish is well cooked.
- Method: - Crush or grind the chilies, garlic and salt together.
- In a sufuria, add the coconut cream, the crushed garlic, chilies and salt, turmeric and lemon juice. - Cook until the sauce thickens, taste for salt and lemon before removing from the stove.
- When the sauce is thick, remove from stove and let it cool.
- Next when the fish is ready, open up the fish BBQ basket and start brushing the sauce on the fish, while the fish is still on the charcoal grill.
- When you find the fish is sticking to the BBQ basket, let the fish cool before opening the basket, otherwise continue brushing the fish with sauce on both sides while still placing the fish on the hot stove so the fish can get nice aroma of the smoke from the sauce falling into the charcoal, at the same time keeping an eye on the fish not to burn. - When the fish is well coated with the sauce on both sides, remove from the grill and serve on
Samaki wa kupaka is the name for a delicious Tanzanian dish consisting of fish that is grilled over charcoal, thens served with a flavorful coconut sauce. This is my healthy version take on samaki wa kupaka, and so the fish is not deep fried. However you could grill the fish if you have a charcoal oven like they do in Mombasa, then add the fish to the sauce. Though personally I added the fish directly to the sauce after marinating, so just play around. Food Recipes African Food Coconut Coconut Sauce Dishes Skinny Recipes Sauce Grilled Fish.
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