DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Fish Stew
Dried bonga, rice and vegetables cooked together with palm oil and patmangi.
About Fish Stew
Slow Food’s Sierra Leone collection presents this one-pot fish stew among traditional coastal dishes. This selection uses dried bonga and rice, following the published alternatives rather than mixing different fish or starch choices.
Palm oil enriches the onions, peppers and fresh tomatoes. Patmangi, identified in the booklet as a local basil, adds a sweet herbal aroma alongside the fish.
The rice cooks within the stew, with some sauce reserved for the final presentation. Fish and vegetables remain part of the substantial one-pot mixture.
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 Stew
Slow Food Sierra Leone’s one-pot dried-bonga fish stew with rice.
- Dried bongaProtein
- Palm oilCooking medium
- OnionsAromatic
- PeppersSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Fresh tomatoesBase
- PatmangiAromatic
- RiceBase
- WaterLiquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Dried bonga: Fish. Broader fish link; dried bonga selected instead of herring/fresh-fish choices.
- Palm oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Colour/cultivar/hotness unspecified.
- Fresh tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Patmangi: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader basil candidate: booklet12 explicitly identifies local herb as Ocimum basilicum; cultivar unprovided.
- Rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Rice rather than gari alternative.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method explicitly enough water for rice; no extra stock inferred.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Sierra Leone
- Saint Kitts and NevisCatalogue link pending review
- Sierra LeoneCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Sierra Leonean Cuisine
- Sierra Leonean CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Saint Kitts and Nevis CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.