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If you've secured your Easter fish, but you're not sure how you'll prepare it, we may have a few ideas for you - coming straight from one of Belize City's well known chefs. We stopped by Naked Chicken yesterday and Chef Ainsleygave us a walk through of his kitchen and all the sides he has prepared to go along with any traditional Good Friday meal. Jomarie Lanza has this story.
It's the Easter season's hottest commodity, aside from the spice packed hot cross buns, No Good Friday meal is every complete without the main course - fish. But whether you like it fried, baked or bubbled in a pot of homemade serre, here at Naked Chicken with Chef Ainsely we explored a couple of other ways to serve up your freshly caught fish.
Ainsley Castro, Chef, Naked Chicken
"Easter well you know it's fish of course and then I walked you through the kitchen earlier so you saw where I got that cross bun, I was showing people how to do different things with fish other than fry fish and cross buns I did that one where I deboned it and stuffed it with some Chaya and callaloo an some local ingredients from right around the market and I did it with some plantains and tostones so that's something nice and I also had some with cassava bread but again these are things that show you can do your fish different on a Good Friday so you don't have to eat it that traditional so you can do a soup if you'd like too."
"Well everyone likes red snapper but trust me you have a lot of other nice fish you have Paugy you have Tilapia that tastes good, you have snook, Baracuda, you have jew fish one of my favourites again then you got the Cabia that's another nice fish."
But whatever your preference in Fish may be, Ainsley encourages locals to keep it healthy, even if that means a simple meal of fish, and hot cross buns with cheese.
Ainsley Castro, Chef, Naked Chicken
"I recommend it with again healthy stuff, baked potato is one of the favourites I got ducunu, that I recommend it with but with this now I have I was serving it with some cassava bread and the traditional cross bun so that's what's why I had the special again so for Easter it's something again, and that's why I'm welcoming everybody to see that you can do lots of different things other than just with the cross bun you can do it a lot of different ways."