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Kenkey with fried fish

Name: Kenkey with fried fish
Prep time: 24 h
Cook time: 3 h 20 min
Total time: 27 h 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: 800 g maize meal fermented 2 to 3 days (or 1 kg ready corn dough) white maize meal (white cornmeal, maize meal); Water, for dough and boiling; Salt, to taste; 6 small tilapia or herring scored fish; Cooking oil (vegetable oil), for frying (about 60 ml absorbed); 2 for raw pepper sauce tomato; 1 for the sauce onion; 3 for the sauce scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli)

Sour fermented corn dumplings with crisp fried fish, fresh pepper and shito. Accra lunch, nailed.

200 minTime

31 gProtein each

hotSpice

24hPlan ahead. Soak for 24 hours first; the 200 minutes come after.

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Grandma's wayFermented corn kenkey, fried fish and fresh pepper sauce.

The original

706kcalsame

31 gproteinsame

10 gfibresame

200minutessame

Classic Ga kenkey and fish.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

White maize meal (white cornmeal, maize meal)800 g maize meal, fermented 2 to 3 days (or 1 kg ready corn dough)

Waterfor dough and boiling

Saltto taste

Fish6 small tilapia or herring, scored

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)for frying (about 60 ml absorbed)

Tomato2, for raw pepper sauce

Onion1, for the sauce

Scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli)3, for the sauce

Method

4 steps

1Mix maize meal with water to a thick dough, cover and ferment at room temperature for 2 to 3 days until sour.
2Cook half the dough with water, stirring hard, into a thick paste (aflata). Mix with the raw half and salt.
3Shape into balls, wrap tightly in dried corn husks or foil, and boil, covered, for 2 to 3 hours.
4Season and fry the fish until crisp. Grind tomato, onion, pepper and salt into a rough fresh sauce.

Serve it like this

Unwrap the kenkey on a plate, lay the fish alongside and spoon over raw pepper sauce and shito. Eat with your hands.

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Kenkey with fried fish

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