DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Fish Liboke
Also known as: Poisson liboké, Liboke ya mbisi
Fish parcels with tomato, young onion, garlic and red hot peppers.

About Fish Liboke
Gisèle Mbeku presents liboké ya malangwa as fish cooked in a leaf parcel. Her Congolese recipe uses banana leaves around the fish and vegetables, with the oven method chosen from her cooking options.
Tomato, young onions and garlic flavour the cooking liquid. Red Antillean hot peppers and olive oil join fish-stock cubes; their complete product formula remains unspecified.
The mixture cooks enclosed in individual parcels, keeping the fish with its sauce. Banana leaves form the food-contact wrapper inside the supporting foil, while the source leaves the final serving-temperature category unspecified.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Fish Liboke
Gisèle Mbeku’s banana-leaf liboké ya malangwa.
- Malangwa fishProteinIngredient page not linked
- LemonSeasoning
- WaterLiquid
- TomatoBase
- Young onionsAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Red Antillean hot peppersSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Olive oilCooking medium
- Fish-stock cubesSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Banana leavesBase
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Malangwa fish: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Exact named fish78, species not independently fixed; Fish positive without importing another recipe’s catfish/capitaine choices.
- Lemon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit food-contact fish cleaning78; juice/whole allocation unprovided.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit fish cleaning78, parcel sauce86/92/97 and external oven steam tray99 retained/consolidated; no dose invented.
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Young onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual jeunes oignons/ndembi80, broader spring-onion candidate; three blended plus fourth sliced91 consolidated.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Red Antillean hot peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual petits piments antillais rouges82, precise cultivar unresolved; no automatic Scotch bonnet mapping.
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Fish-stock cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual Knorr fish cubes84; Fish positive by explicit fish identity, exact product/market formulation unknown. Not generic chicken cube.
- Banana leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual selected food-contact wrapper87/96, not eaten or a banana-fruit ingredient; chikwange leaves/paper alternatives unselected.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Democratic Republic of the CongoCatalogue link pending review
- Republic of the CongoCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Congolese Cuisine
- Republic of the Congo CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Congolese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.