Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, malay fish curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Fish Curry is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Malay Fish Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin 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:
- Prepare Halba Campur (Thalippu Spice Blend) recipe;
- Get 1 Tbsp Mustard Seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp Fenugreek
- Take 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp Black Gram (Ulunthu)
- Make ready Main Ingredients;
- Make ready 130 g Sea bass fillet (mackerel is good too)
- Make ready 2 Tbsp Curry Powder (see Malay Chicken Curry)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Halba Campur
- Get 20 g Shallots (finely chopped)
- Make ready 10 g Garlic (finely chopped)
- Make ready 20 g Ginger (finely chopped)
- Prepare 6 curry leaves
- Make ready 100 g Potatoes (slice)
- Get 100 g Tomatoes (diced)
- Make ready 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Prepare 1/2 cup Coconut milk
- Take 1/2 cup Water
- Get 2 tsp Sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Prepare 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Prepare 1 Stalk Spring Onion (for Garnish)
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)
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