Espada com banana is a traditional dish from the

Madeira archipelago Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of the Canary Islands, Spain, wes ...

. As the name suggests, it is prepared with

black scabbardfish The black scabbardfish (''Aphanopus carbo'') is a bathypelagic cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found in the Atlantic Ocean between latitudes 69°N and 27°N at depths between . Its length is up to , but it reaches maturity around . De ...

(''espada'') and

banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus '' Musa''. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing the ...

. The black scabbardfish is cut into fillets and seasoned with lemon, salt, pepper, and garlic. It is then fried in hot oil, coated in batter or breaded. The bananas are fried open in half, and it is common for them to be fried in the same pan as the fish, even in the same oil. It can be served with sautéed boiled potatoes and salad or spinach puree.

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