Woku Ikan Kakap - very spicy fish dish from Manado

spicy and fried fish from Manado

ingredients:

1000 gr red snapper / or firm white fish

1 lime

1 tsp salt

3 lemongrass 

2 pandan leaves

6 jeruk purut

5 green tomatoes / tomatillos

1 tomato

1000 ml water

4 tbsp oil

 

bumbu:

7 shallots

4 cloves garlic

9 red chilies

7 red rawits

6 cm jahe

3 cm kunyit

4 kemiri /candlenuts

 

garnish:

2 spring onions

1 bunch kemangi / lemon basil

 

preparation:

Clean the fish and cut it into 10 pieces. Cut the tomatoes into parts/pieces. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste and cut the spring onions into small pieces. Marinate the fish with the lime juice and salt for at least 30 minutes.

Heat in a pan the oil and fry the paste with the lemongrass, the pandan and the jeruk purut for 5 minutes. Add the fish and mix well. Then add the water and bring to a boil. Add the tomatoes and simmer slowly for 30 minutes until done. Garnish the dish with the spring onion and kemangi leaves and serve.