Barbudian Fish Wata Recipe | olivemagazine

Barbudian Fish Wata Recipe | olivemagazine

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Wata is a light fish soup from Barbuda, a small sister island of Antigua – it’s flavoured with earthy green seasoning, fiery scotch bonnet and zingy ginger

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Ingredients

  • 2 whole snapper or sea bream cleaned, gutted, descaled and cut into 3-4 pieces (keep the heads and tails)
  • 2 limes 1 juiced, 1 cut into wedges
  • 3 tbsp green seasoning
  • ground to make 1 tsp whole black peppercorns
  • 1 litre fish stock
  • a few sprigs thyme
  • 1 scotch bonnet left whole
  • 4 cloves garlic crushed
  • a thumb-sized piece ginger peeled and finely grated
  • 3 spring onions finely sliced
  • a few bay leaves
  • 1 tsp pimento seeds (allspice)
  • 1 medium tomato diced
  • 1 medium (about 200g) potato
  • 1 green banana
  • 2 (about 200g) carrots
  • 5 okra sliced
  • 1-2 tbsp butter
  • chopped to make 1 tbsp coriander

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