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Bake and Shark

Tobago's iconic sandwich: soft fried bakes stuffed with fried shark fillet and topped with salads and sauces. The ultimate beach food, served from stalls by the ocean.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Sauce

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Instructions

  1. Dissolve the yeast and sugar in the warm water, then mix with the flour and salt. Knead for 8 minutes until smooth and supple.
  2. Cover and let rise for 1 hour, until doubled in size.
  3. Cut the fish into wide fillets, rub them with lime juice, crushed garlic, turmeric, salt and pepper. Let marinate for 15 minutes.
  4. Divide the dough into 4 balls, flatten them into discs about 1 cm thick and let rise again for 15 minutes.
  5. Fry the bakes in oil at 170 °C, 3 to 4 minutes per side, until golden and puffed. Drain them.
  6. In the same oil, fry the marinated fish 3 to 4 minutes per side, until golden and flaking easily with a fork.
  7. Split each bake in two, spread with mayonnaise and sauce, add the fried fish, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and onion, then close and serve right away.

Variations and tips

Baked. For a lighter version, bake the bakes at 200 °C for 15 minutes instead of frying them, and pan-fry the fish with a drizzle of oil.

Chicken. Replace the fish with thin chicken cutlets, marinated and fried the same way.

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