Ikan Kuah Kuning - Fried fish in yellow sauce from the Moluccas

Fried fish in yellow sauce from the Moluccas

ingredients:

500g swordfish / tuna

1 tsp salt

1 tsp asam/tamarind + 50 ml of water

oil

1 salam leaf

4 jeruk purut/kafir lime leaves

1 lemongrass 

600 ml cocnut milk

1/2 tsp palm sugar

1 bunch kemangi (leaves)

 

bumbu:

5 shallots

6 cloves garlic

4 red chilies

2 tsp ketumbar

1/2 tsp peppercorns

3 cm kunyit

1 tsp salt

2 cm laos

 

preparation:

Cut the fish into pieces and marinate it with salt and asemwater and let it rest for 10 minutes. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu into a paste. Heat enough oil in a pan and fry the fish brown and cooked through and scoop from the pan.

Heat in a pan 3 tbsp oil and fry the paste with the salam, the jeruk purut and lemongrass for 4 minutes. Add the coconut milk and palm sugar and bring to a boil, while stirring.

Add the fish and simmer gently until everything is well mixed in and through. Spoon the kemangi in and serve.