Bake and Shark
Bake and Shark is a snack from Trinidadian cuisine .
preparation
Bake and Shark is a classic street food dish that is available at numerous food stalls and cookshops in Trinidad and Tobago . It consists of a fried flatbread ("bake"), into which fried pieces of the shark ("shark") and various other ingredients and sauces are added. Before deep-frying, the shark pieces are seasoned with a mixture of herbs and breaded or marinated in a mixture of lemon juice, onion, garlic, thyme and Capsicum chinense . Other common ingredients are green salad, coleslaw, cucumber, tomato and / or pineapple, depending on the seller's offer; Common seasoning sauces are green seasoning (a cold herb sauce) based on long coriander , mustard, ketchup, garlic sauce and / or chilli sauce. In Trinidad, Bake and Shark is usually associated with Maracas Beach on the north coast , as there are a large number of Bake and Shark stalls and the required shark is freshly caught in the surf zone in front of the beach. As a rule, the customer only receives the shark meat in the flatbread and then puts together the finished snack dish himself at a buffet with side dishes and sauces.
Environmental issues
As top predators , sharks are of great importance to the marine ecosystem . Numerous shark species are endangered by overfishing . In addition to ethical problems, this also results in economic problems, because the need for shark in Trinidad and Tobago can no longer be met. Catfish and rays are often sold incorrectly as substitutes, and cookbooks recommend other types of firm-fleshed fish such as tilapia as substitutes . In return, it is occasionally advertised to sell shark instead of cheap alternatives.
Web links
- Recipe for Bake and Shark on caribbeanpot.com
- Video of the Culinary Institute of America
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- ↑ a b Bake and Shark on About.com
- ↑ Dave DeWitt & Mary Jane Wilson: Callaloo, Calypso & Carnival , p. 70. The Crossing Press 1993
- ↑ Dave DeWitt & Mary Jane Wilson: Callaloo, Calypso & Carnival, p. 24. The Crossing Press 1993
- ↑ Overview on sharks on greenpeace.de
- ↑ Statement from Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS)
- ↑ Rishi Sankar on Bake and Shark
- ^ Ramin Ganeshram: Sweet Hands. Island Cooking from Trinidad & Tobago . Hippocrene Books, New York 2012, ISBN 0-7818-1125-2 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Advertising poster on Maracas Beach
