Pairs well with Pecak Ikan Terong
Pecak Ikan Terong
(0.0)
5.2K views • 6d ago
367
59
7.0% engagement
A traditional Indonesian dish featuring marinated fried fish and eggplant served with a spicy sambal pecak sauce made from chili, shallots, garlic, and coconut milk.
00:15:00 total
Serves 3
medium
Main Various
🍯
🧂
🍋
🍫
🌶️
🍄
👅
Ingredients
- dory fish fillet - 175 grams (cut into pieces for marination)
- instant marinade seasoning - 1 teaspoon (for marinating fish)
- cornstarch (maizena) - 2 tablespoons (to coat fish after marination)
- shallots - 6 cloves (for sambal)
- garlic - 6 cloves (for sambal)
- red bird's eye chili - 10 pieces (for sambal)
- green bird's eye chili - 10 pieces (for sambal)
- terasi (shrimp paste) - 1 teaspoon (grilled/burnt for sambal)
- candlenuts (kemiri) - 3 pieces (pounded for sambal)
- coconut milk - 2 tablespoons (for sambal)
- kencur (aromatic ginger) - 4 grams (for sambal)
- hot water - 6 tablespoons (to mix sambal)
- salt - 1 teaspoon (for sambal)
- MSG - 1 teaspoon (for sambal)
- granulated sugar - 2 teaspoons (for sambal)
- eggplant (purple) - 1 piece (cut and fried)
- lime - 1 piece (for serving)
- kemangi (lemon basil) - watch the video to see (for garnish)
- white rice - watch the video to see (served as accompaniment)
- cooking oil - watch the video to see (for frying fish and eggplant)
Instructions
- Marinate the fish: Cut the dory fish fillet into pieces. Marinate with instant marinade seasoning and mix well. Then add cornstarch and mix until evenly coated.
- Fry fish and eggplant: Heat a little cooking oil. Fry the marinated fish pieces and sliced purple eggplant until cooked. Drain and set aside.
- Prepare sambal pecak: Reserve some oil from frying. Sauté pounded candlenuts, red and green bird's eye chilies, garlic, shallots, and grilled terasi briefly. Transfer the mixture to a mortar.
- Make sambal sauce: Add kencur, salt, MSG, and sugar to the mortar. Pound and mix well. Then add coconut milk and hot water, stir until evenly combined.
- Combine sambal with fish and eggplant: Add the fried eggplant and fish into the sambal mixture and gently press (geprek) to combine flavors.
- Serve: Serve the Pecak Ikan Terong with lime, kemangi leaves, and white rice.
