Recipe: Ikan bumbu Bali - Balinese spicy fish

Ikan bumbu Bali is a spicy Indonesian fish dish. As the name suggests this recipe has it's roots on the beautiful island of Bali.

Ingredients

• 600 g / 20 oz mackerel
• 2 cm / 1 inch turmeric
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 lime
• Salad oil
• 1 lemon grass, crushed
• 2 cups water
• 3 tablespoons kecap manis (sweet ketchup)

Sauce spices

• 10 shallots
• 3 cloves garlic
• 5 candlenuts
• 1 cm / ½ inch ginger
• 1 tablespoon tamarind juice
• Salt
• Sugar

Directions

1. Grind all the sauce spices in the blender.
2. Scrape the scales off and wash the mackerel, cut into appropriate pieces, marinade with salt, lime juice and turmeric for 10-20 minutes.
3. Heat the oil in a frying pan, and fry the mackerel.
4. Heat some oil in another pan, and fry the sauce spices and the lemon grass.
5. Add water and kecap manis and bring to boil.
6. Simmer to thicken the sauce stirring constantly.
7. Put the fried mackerel with the sauce and simmer until the fish absorbs the sauce.

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