Timor-Leste recipes

Recipes from Timor-Leste: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.

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Timor-Leste's ikan sabuko: tamarind-grilled Spanish mackerel on an opened banana leaf, scattered with basil and red and green chiles
Southeast Asia

Ikan Sabuko: Timor-Leste's Tamarind-Grilled Mackerel in Banana Leaf

A recipe for Timor-Leste's fish dish ikan sabuko, made with Spanish mackerel fillets, tamarind paste, calamansi juice, banana leaf, basil and chiles. Covers the tamarind marinade time, wrapping in banana leaf and cooking in a grill pan, the tomato, mint and lime side sauce called budu, and fish and leaf substitutes for a home kitchen.

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