Health & Recipes

As heard on the Speaking Out program: 22 December 2002

This is a variation to Jacko's Namas Recipes at:
http://abc.net.au/message/tv/ms/namas.htm

Degree of difficulty: Low
Preparation time: 30 minutes

White onion, sliced in rings
Pepper & salt
Queenfish fillets (or trevally or other pelagic species)
Red and green chillies (how many is your choice)
Ginger & garlic
Vinegar
Lemon, sliced
Cocnut flesh from young coconut (called Yellow Cocnut in the Territory)

• Place onion rings at the bottom of a bowl


• Finely slice fish fillets and layer on top of onion


• Add ginger and garlic and then pour vinegar into bowl


• Dice up the chilies and sprinkle over fish and other ingredients (Not too much, just enough to come up halfway in the fish layer)


• Add chopped red and green chillies and lemon slices


• Open a yellow coconut and scoop out flesh


• Sieve through a muslin cloth to create "snow" over the namas dish


• Chill for 30 to 40 minutes


• Best served with good beer