The best part about a banana-leaf meal to me is the freshly fried tenggiri (spanish mackerel) fish. I mean that with white rice soaked in some curry and some vege to go with is really just heavenly.
I find marinating and frying tenggiri fish at home really quite simple. I actually got this recipe from the Periplus Mini Cook Books series entitled Homestyle Indian Cooking. However I found it too elaborate. I mean I looked at the recipe and was like ‘Seriously! You mean all those years ago, my mum did all this before frying the fish!’.