With banana leaf wrapping outside, it’s increase smell, taste of fishes when grilling.
1. Ingredients:
– Anchovy or snakehead fish: 1 large fish or 2-3 small fishes
– Spices for marinating fishes: dried onion, salt, seasoning powder, sesame oil, cooking oil, turmeric, green onion.
– Seasoning sauce: 2 slices of pineapple, 1 small bowl of sauce, sugar, garlic, fresh chilli, lemon
– Green banana, starfruit, pineapple, Vietnamese mint.
– Banana leaf, roasted peanuts
2. Instructions:
– To wash fish, remove fish scales, cut a few small lines on fish body. Making mixture for marinating fish: a teaspoon of turmeric starch, chopped dried onion, 2 teaspoon of salt, a half of teaspoon seasoning powder, pepper, a little of sesame oil, rubbing this mixture by hand, marinating fish with the mixture for 3-4 hours.
– Pineapple: remove shell and eggs, cut into long pieces.
– To well-grind or well-chop pineapple.
– To well-grind garlic, chilli.
– To mix grilled pineapple, garlic, chilli, sugar in a bowl of sauce. Due to the seasoning sauce is very salty, so add much sugar, using soup ladle stir until sugar dissolved all, add a few drops of lemon juice.
– To wash starfruit, remove border, cut into long pieces.
– Green banana: cut into small circle pieces, soak them into water to avoid darken.
– To wash Vietnamese mint, green onion and drain.
– To pour boiled water through rice vermicelli, drain.
– After marinating, wrapping by banana leaf, let’s grill on charcoal until banana leaf outside cooked. If fish is so big, after grilling, you should boil him for 3-5 minutes in order avoid burning outside, un-cooked inside. If charcoal is not available, you could use oven, set up temp at 1800C from 40-45 minutes.
– To cut green onion into small pieces, add cooking oil, place it in microwave oven for 30 seconds to onion cooked. Spreading well mixture of cooking oil and roasted peanuts on the surface of fishes.
– After finish grilling, spread mixture of green onion, peanuts more. Serve with seasoning sauce, starfruit, rice vermicelli and rolling by rice sheet.
