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Healthy, flavourful and fresh smoked fish with greens

Smoked Fish with greens

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Smoked Fish with greens is a flavourful and fresh way to use greens.
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dinner, lunch, Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine Igbo, Nigerian
Servings 2

Ingredients
  

  • 150 g Smoked fish
  • 100 g Green (Green amaranth leaves)
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 medium onion (chopped)
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 Spring onion stalk
  • 3 scotch bonnet
  • 3 whole tomatoes

Instructions
 

  • Rinse whole smoked fish using warm water.
  • Remove the head, skin and stomach contents and discard, rinse inside the belly and remove the bones.
  • Flake fish into sizeable chunks.
  • Pick and wash green leaves, shred and set aside.
  • Chop onions, spring onions, scotch bonnets and tomatoes, crush the clove of garlic.
  • In a saucepan over medium heat, add vegetable oil, when hot, add chopped onions.
  • Fry onions until soft, add garlic, the white of spring onions, fish flakes and salt.
  • Stir and fry until the fish has dried a little.
  • Add tomatoes and stock cube, fry until tomatoes have softened, about 3 minutes.
  • Add the shredded green with 2 tablespoons of water.
  • Cover and cook over medium-low heat until the greens have softened.
  • Stir gently and taste for salt.
  • Take off the heat.
  • Served with boiled sweet or Irish potatoes, East African chapati, rice, roasted plantains etc.
Keyword health food, quick meal, sauce