Recipe Author: Santos Panta Pazos

Hometown: Lobitos, Peru

My husband is a fisherman and just this week, he came home with several bonito. Bonito is one of my favorite fish to cook.

The tuna meat is stronger for frying. The meat does not stick or unravel. Bonito is well known around here but there is less than before.

Ingredients

• 1 Fish: Pacific Bonito

• Cooking Oil

• 3 Ripe Plantains (yellow bananas)

• 3 Unripened Plantains (green bananas)

• 2 cups flour

• 4 Limes

• Cilantro, chopped

• 1 large Onion

• 1 Chili

• 3 teaspoons Cumin

• Salt

• Lettuce

• 2 tomatos

• Rice

Santos Panta Pazos

This recipe I learned from my grandmother and also, my mother. My recipe is a mix of the two.

How to Prepare

All photos by Jesús Espinoza Panta.