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Dinner · 45 min · 4 bowls

Thiéboudienne

Senegalese fish and rice. Tomato paste darkened in oil, cabbage and carrot in the pot, fish last. One pot. Don't make jollof and put a fillet on top.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 45 min

medium

Why tonight. Senegalese fish and rice. Tomato paste darkened in oil, cabbage and carrot in the pot, fish last. One pot. Don't make jollof and put a fillet on top.

What it needs

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  • rice
  • cod
  • tomato paste
  • cabbage
  • carrot

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: onion.

Method

  1. Fry the tomato paste hard in oil until it darkens from red to brick. That is the base and it takes minutes, not seconds.
  2. Fish browned and taken out, vegetables cooked in the sauce, and the rice cooked in that same liquid at the end.
  3. Everything shares one pot in sequence, which is why the rice tastes of the whole dish.
  4. Fish returned on top at the very end so it does not fall apart. The crust at the bottom of the pot is prized.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

rice
Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
cod
Lean, mild and flaky, which makes it a vehicle rather than a flavor.
tomato paste
Concentrated sweetness and savory depth, and it is raw out of the tube.
cabbage
Cheap, keeps for weeks, and completely different raw and cooked.
carrot
Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.

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