Name: Shark & Bake
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: Shado Beni Sauce or Hot Pepper Sauce; ½ teaspoon dried oregano; 1 teaspoon coarse salt; 1 cup canola oil; 2 tablespoons lime juice; 1 pound boneless shark meat or other firm-fleshed white fish, cut into 4 × 1-inch strips; 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper powder; 4 large bakes, sliced in half horizontally; 2 tablespoons green seasoning; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Shark & Bake is a fish sandwich in which fried bake—a savory fritter—is sliced open and a piece of breaded, fried nurse shark is tucked between. Nowadays, shark is often substituted with other fish, which is a point of great contention, followed only by what condiments should be used in the sandwich—tamarind sauce, cilantro sauce, or hot pepper sauce are the acceptable choices—and only surpassed by the debate as to whether it is “Shark & Bake” or “Bake & Shark.” I learned it as