FISH PIE (Fried Method)

African Fish pie — a popular West African street food – specifically in Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana it is made with some sort of shortcut pastry filled with fish and spices. These fried fish pies are crunchy, slightly sweet, spicy and oh so good!!

INGREDIENTS:

The sauce preparation……….

Ingredients needed.

• Fresh fish
• Onions (chopped)
• Pepper (grounded)
• Oil (about two tablespoons)
• Grounded ginger and garlic
• Salt and seasoning cubes (as desired)
• Curry powder (1 tablespoon)
• Irish potatoes (3 medium sized) cooked and chopped
• 1 tbs of flour (to thicken the sauce)

PREPARATION:

Wash the fish and put in a pot.
Add salt and seasoning to your taste
Add curry powder
Add the potatoes so that it can cook together with the fish. Allow it to cook very well.

Seive the fish and put it on a flat plate and mash it very well. Debone the fish in this process.

When you are done mashing the fish, pour it into a frying pan and add the fish stock, not too much (Don’t let the sauce to be watery) add the pepper and garlic. And stir.

Chop the potato into small pieces and add into the frying fish

Add the flour and also stir, let it cook for less than a min. And bring it down

THE DOUGH PREPARATION

Ingredients needed…..

• 2 cups of flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• 1/4 cup of oil
• 1/2 and 2 tbs of water
• 1 medium sized egg
• Two tablespoons of sugar

PREPARATION

Seive in the flour, salt and baking powder into a clean bowl and sugar, stir properly.

Add the oil and egg and mix until well combined.

Add the water little by little until you are done mixing.

Knead into a dough.
Put it into a bowl, rub some oil on it and cover and keep for 30mins.

Divide the dough into 4 and roll each of them into a thin layer and cut into your desired shape.

Add the sauce into the shapes you’ve created, dip your finger into a stanby water and rub around the shapes where you would seal and seal it properly.
Seal with a fork.

#Pls note……… fry on a very low heat. Frying on a low heat will make the fish pie golden brown in colour.

Mine came out yummy 😋

#the frying tip……
You have to fry it for about 30 seconds or less, you just don’t have to fry until golden brown and you must keep flipping it around, make sure that the oil has heated up very well, then get the heat to the lowest and fry.

The back of the fish pie must be firm and strong
But will get soft when it’s cold.

Thank you guys