Who knew fish had this many variations?

April 30, 2015 6:36 PM

You may have experienced meatballs and its many variations, but did you know that you could do same with fish?

Fish balls stew

You may have experienced meatballs and its many variations, but did you know that you could do same with fish?

This fish balls can be made with any kind of fish you like because they’ll just end up tasting like the delicious stew.

The stew is made colorful and nutritious with tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and cabbage.

You can also add pumpkin or sweet potatoes if you like more color and sweetness.

It tastes delicious over rice, or with bread dipped in.

Here's how to prepare fish ball stew.

Ingredients:

For fish balls:

500g of fish
Half onion
3 gloves of garlic
1 bouillon cube
1 tbsp of peanut butter
Fresh chili peppers to your taste
Black or white pepper, optional
½ tsp of salt
Vegetable oil, for frying
1 tbsp of corn flour, optional

For the stew:

2 fresh tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 big onion, minced
1 bouillon cube
3 gloves of garlic, grated
1 tsp of black pepper
Red or green chili, to taste
Salt to taste
3 tbsp of cooking oil
2 cups of water
1 big potato, peeled and cut
1 small carrot, peeled and cut
Half cabbage, cut into medium pieces
Or any vegetables of your choice ( pumpkin, sweet potato, etc)

Making the fish balls

Step 1: Remove bones and skin from the fish or use fish fillet. Grind the fish in a food processor with some salt.

Step 2: Grind the onion, garlic, bouillon cube, chilies peppers, black pepper in a food processor.

Step 3: Mix the fish with the onion mixture and peanut butter. Mix well add the corn flour if you want. Then grease your hands and shape the fish mixture into small balls.

Step 4: heat the oil on medium and fry the fish balls until brown. Remove and reserve.

Making the stew

Step 1: In a big bowl, mash the fresh tomatoes with a little bit of water. Add the tomato paste, minced onion, grated garlic, bouillon cube, black pepper.

Step 2: heat the oil and add the tomato mixture. Let simmer at low heat for 5 to 10min or until it’s thicken and you can see the oil.

Step 3: Add your vegetables and water. Bring to boil and add the fish balls. Let simmer for 20 min.

Salt and pepper to your taste.

Serve with rice or yams.

Check out the procedure on this video.