Abomou: Delicious & Easy Smoked Fish Recipe from Côte d’Ivoire

Name: Abomou: Delicious & Easy Smoked Fish Recipe from Côte d’Ivoire
Ingredients: 10 African eggplants (or 15 Thai eggplants, or 1 medium-sized European eggplant); 5 roma tomatoes, cut in four; 5 cloves garlic, peeled; 1 Shrimp-flavor Maggi Cube; 1 Jumbo Super Cube (regular Jumbo or Maggi may be substituted if Jumbo Super is unavailable in your area); 1/2 cup water; 2 onions, diced; 2 smoked mackerel (medium sized), skinned, cleaned, and flaked; 15 Scotch Bonnet Peppers (10 red, 5 green); 3 Tbsp vegetable oil; 2 Tbsp Tomato Paste; 1 large onion, finely diced; 12 Plantains, not green but not yet fully ripe (see photo, below)