Malay Fish Curry
Malay Fish Curry

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, malay fish curry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

To serve: Pour some curry sauce into a bowl, arrange fish and prawns on top, drizzle some more sauce over the top of the fish, sprinkle with coconut and lime leaves. This Malaysian Fish Curry (Kari Ikan) is one of the most delicious curries I cook at home. I'm a massive fan of Malaysian and Singaporean food. With vibrant orange hues, soft and tender fish pieces and intense fragrance and flavour it's almost impossible to find any fault.

Malay Fish Curry is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Malay Fish Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook malay fish curry using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Malay Fish Curry:
  1. Get Halba Campur (Thalippu Spice Blend) recipe;
  2. Get 1 Tbsp Mustard Seeds
  3. Make ready 1 tsp Fenugreek
  4. Make ready 1 tsp Fennel Seeds
  5. Prepare 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
  6. Make ready 1 tsp Black Gram (Ulunthu)
  7. Prepare Main Ingredients;
  8. Make ready 130 g Sea bass fillet (mackerel is good too)
  9. Take 2 Tbsp Curry Powder (see Malay Chicken Curry)
  10. Get 1 Tbsp Halba Campur
  11. Get 20 g Shallots (finely chopped)
  12. Make ready 10 g Garlic (finely chopped)
  13. Prepare 20 g Ginger (finely chopped)
  14. Get 6 curry leaves
  15. Prepare 100 g Potatoes (slice)
  16. Get 100 g Tomatoes (diced)
  17. Get 2 pc Tamarind slices
  18. Make ready 1/2 cup Coconut milk
  19. Make ready 1/2 cup Water
  20. Make ready 2 tsp Sugar
  21. Take 1 tsp Salt
  22. Prepare 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  23. Prepare 1 Stalk Spring Onion (for Garnish)

Heat the oil in a wok or wide saucepan over high heat. Malaysian Fish Head Curry This is a Malaysian-Chinese style fish head curry, as opposed to the Indian-style which uses fish curry powder, curry leaves, fenugreek and mustard seeds. I think most commercial fish curry powders are meant for Indian style curries, and so I made my own from scratch using ground coriander, chilli and turmeric. This Salted Fish Curry is an adaptation of the Nyonya version using freshly salted fish instead of dried salted fish.

Instructions to make Malay Fish Curry:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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)

I think most commercial fish curry powders are meant for Indian style curries, and so I made my own from scratch using ground coriander, chilli and turmeric. This Salted Fish Curry is an adaptation of the Nyonya version using freshly salted fish instead of dried salted fish. Nyonya Salted Fish Curry (Kiam Hu Kut Gulai) is a super delicious dish that should be more widely known. It is actually made using salted fish bones. Ingredients to Prepare Malaysian Assam Fish Curry.

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