How to Cook Jamaican brown stew fish

Watch this cooking how-to video as Tracy cooks some brown stew fish. Brown fish stew is a traditional Jamaican recipe. Follow along in this Jamaican cooking lesson to learn how to cook up this seafood dish.

Ingredients:

2lb fish fillets

A splash of lime juice

1 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of pepper

1 onion

3 stalks of scallion

1 hot pepper (ideally scotch bonnet)

1 sweet pepper

3 cloves of garlic

1/2 inch of ginger

3 tomatoes

Oil for frying

3 tablespoons of flour, stirred in to 1/4 cup of flour

3 sprigs of fresh thyme (or 3 teaspoons of dried thyme)

1 tablespoon of butter

1 tablespoon of browning

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 cups of water

Directions:

Mix the lime juice in a bowl with hot water and wash the fish in the mixture.

Remove the fish from the water, pat dry and rub with the salt and pepper.

Leave to marinate for 1 hour.

Chop the onion, scallion, hot pepper, sweet pepper, garlic and tomatoes in to small pieces, grate the ginger and mix the flour in 1/4 cup of water.

Gently fry both sides of each fish fillet until it has sealed.

Gently fry both sides of each fish fillet until it has sealed.

Add the water, soy sauce and browning and simmer for five minutes.

Stir the flour/water mixture in to the stew then add the fish.

Simmer for five minutes, occasionally stirring gently.

Serve with rice and peas.