Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, malay fish curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Fish Curry is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Malay Fish Curry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Blend or process all the spice ingredients to form a smooth paste. Season the fish with salt and pepper and cut into large bite-size pieces. Heat the oil in a wok or wide saucepan over high heat.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have malay fish curry using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malay Fish Curry:
- Make ready Halba Campur (Thalippu Spice Blend) recipe;
- Get 1 Tbsp Mustard Seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp Fenugreek
- Make ready 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
- Prepare 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- Take 1 tsp Black Gram (Ulunthu)
- Get Main Ingredients;
- Get 130 g Sea bass fillet (mackerel is good too)
- Get 2 Tbsp Curry Powder (see Malay Chicken Curry)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Halba Campur
- Prepare 20 g Shallots (finely chopped)
- Prepare 10 g Garlic (finely chopped)
- Take 20 g Ginger (finely chopped)
- Make ready 6 curry leaves
- Take 100 g Potatoes (slice)
- Prepare 100 g Tomatoes (diced)
- Get 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Prepare 1/2 cup Coconut milk
- Take 1/2 cup Water
- Prepare 2 tsp Sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp Salt
- Take 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Prepare 1 Stalk Spring Onion (for Garnish)
Season the fish with salt and pepper, sprinkle with the lemon juice and set aside. Heat a little oil in a saucepan and saute the onion. Season the fish with salt and pepper and cut into large bite-size pieces. Heat the oil in a wok or wide saucepan over high heat.
Steps to make Malay Fish Curry:
- In a wok heat cooking oil on high heat. Fry the Halba Campur spice blend until fragrant. Then add the shallots, garlic and ginger and fry these until fragrant. Then add the curry powder and mix well until that is fragrant.
- Next add the tomatoes and potatoes and fry for 1 minute. After that, add 1/2 cup of water and cover with a lid. Let it stew for 5 minutes while stirring every 1 minute.
- Next turn down the heat to low heat. Add in the coconut milk, tamarind slices, curry leaves, sugar, salt and then mix well. Add in the fish and cover with lid for 5 minutes. Serve on a plate and garnish with spring onions.
- COMMENTARY; Black Gram that you use for this is the processed one and it is white in color. The Malay name for it is Halba Putih (White Fenugreek) which is wrong. You can substitute Black Gram with Nigella Seeds (Black Carraway) and this spice blend recipe is called Panch Phoron that is used in Northeast India (Bengal, Nepal)
Here is a video guide to preparing Malaysin version Fish Curry, step by step instructions to prepare. Other version - Singapore Fish Head Curry. Ingredients to Prepare Malaysian Assam Fish Curry. What fish can you use to prepare assam fish curry. The fish that we most commonly use to prepare assam fish curry is Spanish mackerel.
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