Red snapper and tomatoe fish soup (Lanmoumou dessi)
A taste of my grandma’s cooking with fresh and natural ingredients. My west African culinary flair that my kids appreciate a lot.
Ingredients
2 lemons/lime (to clean the fish)
1/4 cup of coconut oil
2 medium red snappers
12 Fresh large organic tomatoes (cleaned and grounded)
1 Green bell pepper
4tbsp Savourous onion powder
2 cups of water or broth
3 tbsps of savourous garlic powder
3 tbsps of Savourous ginger powder
Hot Pepper (to taste)
Dash of black pepper
Salt (to taste)
3 pieces of dried laurel leaves
Other seasoning to taste (optional)
Instructions
1
– Wash the fish and remove fish intestine and clean thoroughly
2
– Squeeze lemon juice all over the fish to remove other impurity then rinse out the lemon juice
3
– Cut your fish into a desire pieces, salt to taste and set it aside
4
– In a sauce pan, heat up the coconut oil on a medium
5
– Add the ground fresh tomatoes, onion, garlic
6
– Let the tomatoes mixture cook for about 5mins
7
– Pour the 2 cup of vegetable broth to the tomato mixture
8
– Gently put the fish pieces in the tomato sauce mixture
9
– Add the laurel leave, hot pepper, salt, ginger (other optional seasoning)
10
– Let the sauce boil for 5 min
11
– Add the green pepper, black pepper, cook for 5more minute
Remove and serve over rice, couscous, cornmeal (akume), ablo, quinoa…..
Remove and serve over rice, couscous, cornmeal (akume), ablo, quinoa…..
