Roasted fish with Eluit el tuu (banaba and coconut milk)

                                                                                Receta en Español

In the Palau Islands fish is a main ingredient at many dishes, like coconuts and bananas.

Today's recipe combines all these ingredients, a grilled fish accompanied by 'Eluit el tuu' , a typical side dish that can also be eaten as a dessert.

I have chosen a fish that can be found in the Pacific Ocean and it is easy to find it in Europe , this is the snapper.

This is an original way of eating fish, with a lot of lemon taste accompanied by the slight sweetness of the banana and the smoothness of the coconut milk.

Ingredients:

- a snapper.

- 1 lemon.

- Salt.

- ground garlic.

- ground onion.

- ground white pepper.

- 2 kaffir lime leaves.

- 3 little bananas.

- 1 can coconut milk.

- 1 tablespoon of sugar.

Method:

1- Place the snapper on an oven proof dish. Make some cuts along the fish loin. Sprinkle some salt over both sides of the fish.

2- Sprinkle ground garlic, ground onion and ground white pepper over both sides of the fish.

3- Take the kaffir lime leaves, cut then in little pieces and put those pieces into the cuts along the fish loin.

4- Put half a lemon slice in each cut of the fish loin.

5- Put the fish in the oven for 1 hour at 175 º Celsius.

6- Now is time to cook the side dish, cut and peel bananas the way you can see at the pictures:

7- Pour the coconut milk into a casserole, add a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of sugar. Stir well and add the bananas.

8- Put on  a high heat until it reaches boiling point, then put on a low heat and cook for 15 minutes, if you want it thick cook without a lid, otherwise put a lid on. I did it with no lid.

9-  Now you are ready to serve, you put a portion of the fish and a good tablespoon of the banana at its side.

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