Pwason sale

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

Pwason sale or salted fish is a traditional dish on the Seychelles Islands dating back to the times when food preservation involved basic means such as pickling and salting. Freshly caught fish is preserved through salting and sun-drying, a process which lends the fish a strong, distinctive flavor. Salted fish is often used in a variety of Seychellois dishes, including chatinis (chutneys) and fish curries, as well as in a local delicacy known as rougail , which is a type of piquant tomato-onion sauce. The salted fish is sometimes fried and it is typically accompanied by rice and a side of papaya chutney. It is usually available at roadside fishermen’s stalls, fish markets, but it can also be bought in some supermarkets.