Fish Yassa- traditional Senegalese recipe

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Poisson Yassa (Fish Yassa)

This traditional Senegalese recipe, basically a lemon-onion-mustard marinade and sauce, is used for Poulet Yassa, mutton, and fish (poisson): Poisson Yassa. It would take an ichthyologist to determ…

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½ cup peanut oil (or any cooking oil)

4 (or more!) onions, cut up

8 tbsp lemon juice

1 bay leaf

4 garlic cloves, minced

6 tbsp cider vinegar or white vinegar (optional)

2 tbsp Dijon mustard (optional)

2 tablespoons Maggi® sauce (or Maggi® cubes and water), or soy sauce (optional)

1 chile pepper, cleaned and finely chopped (optional)

cayenne pepper or red pepper, black pepper, salt (to taste)

4 lbs fish — one large fish or a few small fish: whole, filleted, or cut into serving-sized pieces

INSTRUCTIONS

1
If using whole fish:
Cut several slits in the side of the fish to allow it to better marinate.

2
In a glass bowl or baking pan mix all ingredients (except the fish) to make a marinade. Place the fish in the marinade, covering both sides, and allow it to marinate an hour. Remove fish from the marinade, but save the marinade. Cook according to one of the following methods.

3
Cooking method 1: Cook fish over an outdoor grill (or broil fish in a hot oven) until done. If grilling: a hinged wire basket made for holding fish on the grill is very useful.
Cooking method 2: In a frypan, fry the fish on each side in hot oil until done.

4
While fish is cooking: Pour the marinade into a saucepan and bring to a slow boil. Reduce heat and simmer until the marinade thickens into a sauce.



Well it ended up something of a greasy mess but I expected that it was a good tasting greasy mess and adding fresh cracked black pepper before cooking the marinade down a stroke of minor culinary genius.

There's a small fillet of Halibut under that pile 'o Onions

Took longer than the recipe said to cook this down but I thought it would

Baked Halibut-it had a wonderful smell & bit of flavour from the marinade

Lunch was late today

You could substitute a couple shots of Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce for the Maggi cube-also I forgot the Bay leaf and never noticed anything missing.