🇧🇿 Belizean Cuisine

Hudut

Fish Soup with Mashed Plantains

Prep Time 30 min

Servings 4

Difficulty Hard

Calories 480 kcal

A traditional Garifuna dish of rich coconut fish broth served over pounded green and ripe plantains.

Ingredients

1 Boil green and ripe plantains until soft. Pound together in a mortar until smooth and elastic.
2 Simmer fish with coconut milk, onion, garlic, thyme, and scotch bonnet until fish is cooked through.
3 Remove fish bones and flake the meat back into the broth.
4 Serve the coconut fish broth over mounds of mashed plantain.

Did You Know?

Hudut is the most sacred dish in Garifuna culture and is central to the dugu ceremony, a traditional ancestral healing ritual.