

Jeremiah and Antonio's Hamo Fish Grill
Team Samoa
INGREDIENTS
Ingredients for Fish and Marinade
2 fish fillets (can be tuna, mahimahi, whatever is your favourite), skin on and bones removed
1 inch ginger (grated)
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp coconut water (from brown coconut)
1 bunch coriander
3 leaves basil
Seasoning
Ingredients for Green Bananas
4 green bananas
1 cup coconut cream
Pinch curry powder
Ingredients for Salad
2 lettuces
5 tomatoes
1 vi (peeled & diced)
1 cucumber for garnish
Accompaniment
4 slices pineapple
METHOD
- Mix together all ingredients of marinade
- Add the fish fillet and allow to marinate for 5 – 10 minutes
- Wrap the fish in a banana leaf and set aside
- Heat grill until smoking
- Place the fish on and cook for approximately 2 minutes each side or until cooked
- After cooking remove the fish from the grill
- Rewrap in a banana leaf
- Make sure the banana wrap is sealed to keep moisture inside
- Set aside somewhere warm to let steam through
- Peel pineapple and cut four thick pieces from it
- Place on hot grill with a little oil and cook for 5 minutes each side
- Scrape coconuts
- Squeeze scrapings to make a thin coconut cream
- Peel green bananas
- Place whole bananas into a pot
- Put coconut cream in to a pot and bring to the boil
- While stirring add 5 chopped basil leaves, a pinch of curry, and seasoning
- Boil for approximately 10 minutes then set aside and cover, leaving it to rest in the juices.
- Chop tomatoes in half
- Wash and chop lettuce leaves into 2 inch strips
- Scrap (or grate) vi into a bowl
- Mix salad together and season
- Set aside
Plating
- Remove fish from banana leaf and place in the centre of your plate
- Drain and slice bananas
- Place beside the fish
- Place grilled pineapple beside the fish
- Add salad and garnish with a slice of cucumber
- Top bananas and fish with a little of the curry coconut sauce
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