Fish Rolls

Fish Heads! Fish Heads!
Roly-Poly Fish Heads!
Fish Heads! Fish Heads!
Eat them up--YUM!

I had some ladies from church over, and they taught me how to make Cameroonian Fish Rolls! They're actually quite good--but high maintenance! :) Here are some pictures! I'll post the 'recipe' on my food blog at some point.

First, you prepare the fish. These are Mackerel fish:



You skin it,



Boil it,



Then mash it up!



While doing that, you cut up carrots and green beans into tiny pieces, and boil them with a tomato-ish sauce (it's tomatoes, garlic, ginger, parsley, celery leaves, leeks, basil all VERY finely ground together with a lot of salt added). You add this to the mashed up fish. This is the filling for the rolls.

Simultaneously (I swear these women have at least 12 arms--they accomplish such amazing feats!!), you make the dough:



Just your basic dough (flour, yeast, warm water, salt, sugar).

You let the dough rise while everything is boiling. Then you take it apart into little balls of dough and roll it out into SUPER skinny isosceles triangles:





You fill it with the fishy filling:



Roll it up:




Then you deep fry it! (You CAN bake it, but it seriously does not taste quite as good...)



Voila! :)




And what were the kids doing during this activity, you might ask?