WHOLE FISH COOKED IN A BANANA LEAF WITH MANGO CHUTNEY
Ingredients
- 2 whole fresh fish (preferably sea bass or rainbow trout) weighing approximately 300g/10½oz each
- gutted
- 1 spring onion
- thinly sliced
- large handful coriander stalks
- 2 x banana leaves or 2 large sheets of foil
- fine sea salt
- to season
- 3 garlic cloves
- left whole
- ½ red onion
- chopped
- large handful coriander leaves
- finely chopped
- 6 small green mangoes (or 2 large mangoes)
- peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 lemon
- zest only
- 1 tbsp mustard seed oil
- ½ cucumber
- finely chopped
- pinch of sugar
Directions
- The fish can be cooked on the barbecue or in the oven. If cooking in the oven
- preheat the oven to its highest temperature.
- Stuff the fish with the onion and coriander stalks and season with sea salt. Wrap each fish in a banana leaf (or foil). Put on a tray and cook in the oven or on the barbecue for 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- for the chutney burn the garlic cloves in their skins on an open flame to chargrill them. When cool enough to handle
- remove the garlic from their skins and finely chop.
- Mix the onion
- garlic
- coriander
- mango
- lemon zest and mustard seed oil. Add the cucumber
- crush it and mix to combine it into the chutney. Season with salt.
- Serve the fish in the banana leaf with the chutney on the side.

