Ikan Bakar Sambal Kecap
Indonesian grilled fish
Servings 0
Ingredients
- Fish of your choice I used mackerel - clean and then rubbed with tamarind juice (soak tamarind pulp in warm water to produce the juice)
- 2 candlenuts
- 3 garlic
- 1/2 of large onion
- 1/8 tsp heaping ground coriander
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/4 tsp ginger powder
- 1/8-1/4 tsp cayenne powder
- 1-2 tsp sunflower oil
- 1-2 tsp lime juice
- 1-2 tsp sweet soy sauce
- Salt to taste
- Additional sweet soy sauce watch the video
Sambal Kecap
- Bird eye chilies sliced, as many as you like
- Shallots or onion sliced, as much as you like
- Lime juice to taste
- Sweet soy sauce as much as you like
Instructions
- Make fine paste of candlenuts, garlic, onion, using mortar and pestle
- Add in coriander, turmeric, ginger powder, cayenne powder, sunflower oil, lime juice, mix well
- Mix in sweet soy sauce and salt to taste
- Rub paste all over cleaned fish, marinade for 15 mins
- Grill until well cooked. The leftover of the marinade can be mixed with a little sweet soy sauce, for brushing fish while grilling, for extra flavor!
- To make sauce, slice chilies, shallots or onion, place into a bowl
- Flavor it with lime juice and sweet soy sauce - as thick or as this as you would like the sauce to be
- Serve grilled fish with the sauce