Indonesian Spicy Curry (Mangut Terong Ungu dan Ikan Patin)

One of my favorite food when I was in Indonesia is Indonesian spicy curry. My mom used to make it really hot and put a lot of white pepper in it. There is special type of fish that we used, we call that 'Ikan Manyung' or Arius Thalassinus. In Javanese we call it Mangut Ndas Manyung. We just used their head because their head is yummy and not a lot of meat in it. But that's the point of eating head fish eh... Because I couldn't find that fish yet, I just simply used Basa Fish or Ikan Patin Siam in Indonesian language.

Let see the recipe:

Ingredients:

3 fillet Basa fish

1 eggplant, chop into small chunk

1/2 block of extra firm tofu, cut in half then cut in triangle

5 red Thai chillies, cut in angle

1 medium sized tomato, cut into wedges

3 medium size bilimbi (belimbing wuluh)

1/2 cup of coconut milk

1/2 cup of water

Spices to blend:

5 shallots

3 cloves of garlic

2 candlenuts

2 cm of ginger

1 tsp of coriander powder

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp white pepper powder

1 bay leaf

2 cm of galangal

Direction:

Sauté the blended spices with bay leaf, galangal and red Thai chillies until fragrant. Add tomatoes and bilimbi.

Pour the water and coconut milk, add eggplant, tofu and fish in the same time. 

Keep stir the broth so that coconut milk has smooth texture.

Serving 3 people