Omena

Name: Omena
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 300g dried omena fish; 3 tomatoes, chopped; 2 onions, chopped; 1 chile, chopped

Omena/oh-MEH-nah/

Also known as: Silver Cyprinid

About this dish

Small dried silver fish fried and simmered in a tomato and onion sauce.

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Ingredients

🐟300g dried omena fish

🍅3 tomatoes, chopped

🧅2 onions, chopped

🌶️1 chile, chopped

Method

Serves 2

Rinse the dried omena and soak briefly.

Fry the fish lightly in oil until slightly crisp.

Sauté onion until softened, then add tomato and chile, cooking until reduced.

Stir the fried omena into the sauce and simmer a few minutes.

Serve with ugali.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Omena is a small freshwater fish from Lake Victoria, widely eaten across western Kenya as an affordable protein source.

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