Stewed fish in spices with hot pepper Today we will get acquainted with the traditional seasoning of oriental cuisine - Hawaij. The recipe for this seasoning varies in a very wide range. This seasoning is found both in combinations of spices for coffee, for soup, for meat and fish. The exact recipes are not known by anyone except the sellers of this seasoning, but the names of the seasonings in Hawaii are known. This is black pepper, ground turmeric, grain of zira, crushed in a mortar, crushed coriander seeds, cardamom, ground cloves. Combine the amount of these seasonings can be personal taste. It is this seasoning that will serve as the basis of taste for fish. We will extinguish pike-perch, which is rather dry, so we will use different vegetables in the recipe. Bitter and sweet peppers balance the severity of the dish, the celery root will soften the taste of vegetable seasoning, and tomatoes will make the fish juicy.
Ingredients:- Pike perch 800 g
- Tomatoes 6 pcs.
- Onions 3 pcs.
- Celery root 100 g
- Garlic 5 denticles
- Pepper spicy 1 pc.
- Sweet pepper 2 g
- Sugar 2 tsp.
- Salt 2 tsp.
- Olive oil 3 tbsp. l.
- Cilantro fresh 1 bunch
- Lemon juice 3 tbsp. l.
- Black pepper 4 tsp.
- Turmeric 1 tsp.
- Zira (Cumin) ground 1 tsp.
- Ground coriander 1 tsp.
- Cardamom 1 g
- Carnation powder 1 tsp.
- Step 1 To cook the fish in Libyan, you need to take fish, lemon juice, onions, tomatoes, bitter and sweet peppers, celery root, garlic, salt, sugar, olive oil, a mixture of spices.
- Step 2 Wash fish, clean, cut into portions, sprinkle with lemon juice, salt, pepper, sprinkle with chopped cilantro. Put in the fridge for 15 minutes to marinate.
- Step 3 Pure the tomatoes.
- Step 4 Cut the onions into cubes, season with olive oil.
- Step 5 Add the diced celery root to the onions.
- Step 6 Bitter, sweet peppers and garlic mashed.
- Step 7 Add the paprika puree with garlic to the frying pan, cut the sweet peppers into pieces. Mix.
- Step 8 Pour tomato, sprinkle with a mixture of spices. Stew for 1 minute.
- Step 9 Put some of the vegetable mixture on the bottom of the pan, lay the marinated fish on top of it. Top with the rest of the vegetable mixture. Stew for 40 minutes.
- Step 10 The dish must be served hot.