Recipes
Combating Malnutrition in Zambia With Fish-Based Recipes
FishFirst! Zambia implemented nutrition training to promote enhanced nutrition for women and children using recipes, which incorporate fish powder. This article also includes a short video on the activity highlighted at the end of the article.
Fish-Bean-Vegetable Soup, Recipe From Zambia
The soup uses assorted powders, including one from small fish, and only requires a brief cooking period. Small fish are highly concentrated in several critical nutrients, and they can be environmentally sustainable and affordable as an animal-…
Kechhki Fish Curry, Recipe from Bangladesh
In addition to being relatively simple to prepare, this dish packs a nutritious punch by utilizing the small fish Kechhki (Corica soborna) as the star ingredient. Small, dried fish are not only a sustainable and affordable option for many areas…
Nutritional Benefits of Boiled Dry Milonge (Catfish), Recipe from Zambia
by Lora Iannotti This recipe is a delightful boiled dry milonge soup from Zambia. This simple dish combines only five ingredients: catfish, onions, tomatoes, oil, and water.
Returning to Our Roots: Punti Fish Curry with White Radish
Over our long evolutionary past, approximately 2 million years, we subsisted on foods collected through hunting, fishing, and gathering. Scientists have shown that hominins from the ancestor family of Homo sapiens or modern humans lived near water…
Dried Small Fish (Kapenta)
Our featured recipe this month is for Zambian kakeya or kapenta (sardines) cooked with tomatoes and onions and served with greens, cabbage, or nshima (cornmeal porridge). This small fish offers a terrific package of concentrated nutrients important…
Nigerian Fried Fish Stew
The Nigerian fried fish stew offers a range of nutritional benefits. Most notably, it is rich in brain-selective nutrients and antioxidants that reduce inflammation and stress in the body.
Batashi Fish Curry with Brinjal and Potato
This recipe from Bangladesh contains a variety of foods and spices, illustrating one of the most important health behaviors—dietary diversity! Fish and other foods in the recipe—potatoes (tubers) and brinjal (eggplant in the berry family)—were…