Fish Soup

- Zaty.

Carlo brought some fish fillets from home and we were thinking of how to cook them. First we tried tempura flour - didn't turn out that well. Then he tried the egg+flour fry, which was pretty nice (just a bit bland, in a no-salt kinda way :P), but I wanted the fish to be cooked in liquid - like curry or something. I didn't have the curry powder for seafood, so that idea had to go.

And then I decided to make fish soup. And after looking around the net for a quick+easy recipe, I found one. After modifying it to suit what I have in my cabinet/fridge, came up with this. And Carlo approves! :D

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Original recipe from from here.

Ingredients

• Oil, just enough for sauteeing
• 3 cloves of garlic, smashed/sliced
• 1 shallot, chopped finely
• 2cm^3 of ginger, smashed/sliced
• Fish fillet, washed and cut in big chunks (rub a bit of salt on it while preparing the other stuff)
• Boiled water
• 1 cube chicken stock
• 1 large carrot, sliced
• 2cm^3 of galangal, sliced
• 1 big onion, half sliced, half diced.
• Salt
• Black pepper
• A few pinches of fennel
• Sweet basil
• A few cardamoms

Steps

1. Heat the pot and add oil just enough to cover the surface.
2. When oil is heated, sautee garlic, shallot and ginger until they give of a nice smell & slightly brown.
3. Add chunks of fish in the pot by just resting them on the sauteed ingredients. Let one side of the fillet turn white and slightly harden, then turn it carefully to 'whiten' the other side.
4. Add boiled water into the pot, then chicken stock. Stir well.
5. After a few minutes, add in carrots, galangal and onion. Stir.
6. Add in salt, black pepper and fennel.
7. Allow soup to cook for about 15 minutes, then add in cardamom and sweet basil for the final 10 minutes.
8. Serve it while it's hot! :)

Will post photo(s) later.

 

Beef Curry [P]

- Zaty.

Ma made beef curry today. Onto the good stuff, piccies! ^_^

Ingredients
Beef, potatoes, onions, garlic, curry powder, bunga lawang, buah pegaga, cinnamon, ginger, salt, sugar, santan (coconut milk), tomatoes, water.

Note : we used beef that's already fully cooked-boiled, it's not in the pics.

Steps!
* While preparing the other ingredients, make sure the beef (or whatever it is used to substitute it) is boiled - fully cooked!

Best eaten with rice or cicah-ed (dipped) with bread. Oishi~~~ =D

Ikan Sumbat

aka Stuffed Fish =D

- Zaty.

Made by Ma.
I forgot the real ingredients, so I'll recheck this later.

Ingredients
Fishies (here, ikan kembung = trouts?), sugar, sliced chilli, minced ginger, kelapa purut (shaved coconut insides?), cooking oil, sliced onions.

Steps
1. Cut the fishes across its upper body on one side, making a wide space to put stuffing in.
2. Add all the other ingredients together nicely.
3. Stuff #2 into the #1 fishes, like thus:

4. 'Marinate' these for more than an hour by putting the stuffed uncooked fishes in the fridge (go watch TV or cook rice or whatever)
5. When you feel like eating, take them out and fry these in a large wok after heating up the oil.

Note : due to the usage of kelapa purut, the amount of cooking oil used may be a lot. Just a reminder =)

So how does it look?

This:

To this:

Itadakimasu!!! ^__^

To be eaten with rice, in case you were wondering. But if you were to ratah (eat w/out rice), it still tastes good. Only it doesn't feel 'complete'. =)