Fish Tea

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Fish Tea recipe

Ingredients

 2lb whole fish
 2 litres of water
 4 green bananas
 1 hot pepper (ideally scotch bonnet)
 4 scallion
 5 Sprigs thyme
 2 cloves of garlic
 2 potatoes
 1 teaspoon salt
 1 teaspoon black pepper

Cooking

 Wash the fish in water and lemon or lime juice










 If the fish has scales remove them by running a knife against the grain of the scales














 Bring the water to the boil, add the fish then simmer for half an hour










 Chop the banana, potato, garlic and scallion.










 After half an hour of simmering, strain the fish out of the water.










 Add the green banana, potato, scallion, garlic, pepper (unchopped) salt and black pepper to the fish stock










 When the fish has cooled, seperate the bones from the flesh














 Add the fish to the stock and simmer for half an hour.

Serving

 Serve in a bowl!










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