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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have homemade otah/singapore style otak otak using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
- Get Spice Paste
- Make ready 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only)
- Make ready 60 gr galangal/blue ginger
- Prepare 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds
- Make ready 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds
- Get 150 gr shallots
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic
- Make ready Other ingredients
- Take 150 gr fresh coconut milk
- Prepare 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin)
- Get 200 gr fish paste
- Prepare 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp curry powder
- Make ready 1 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1-1.5 tsp salt
- Get 3 eggs
- Make ready 4 tbsp rice flour
- Make ready 1 tbsp corn flour
- Make ready 3 tbsp cooking oil
- Get 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely
- Take Banana leaves for wrapping
Otak-otak is an Southeast Asian grilled fish cake made of ground fish meat mixed with tapioca starch and spices, originated from Palembang, Indonesia. Otak-otak merupakan isi ikan berempah di Malaysia. Ia terdapat di Terengganu, Pahang, Johor dan juga di Indonesia, terutamanya di Sulawesi dan Singapura dimana ia dipanggil sebagai otah-otah, otah atau otak. Otak-otak is so famous around my living area and if I ever want to eat the fresh ones I could just Homemade Fish Balls are as fun to make as they are to eat!
Steps to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
- Soaked the dried chillies in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds. Prepare all ingredients. Finely chop the spice ingredients and put it in your food processor to make a paste.
- This is the fish paste I use. Ready to use from supermarket.
- Remove the meat from the bones/skin. Original recipe calls for 300 gr fish meat. But in the end I use 500 gr nett. Roughly chop. Set aside.
- Mix the spice paste from step one with 1 tbsp of coriander seeds powder and 1 tbsp of curry powder. Add salt and sugar
- Add fish paste and 3 eggs. Stir well until combined. After that add in rice flour and corn flour. Mix well, add coconut milk and 3 tbsp of oil.
- Add in the chopped fish meat and lastly, add the finely chopped kaffir lime leaves
- Wrapping time: use the clean banana leaves (wash and soaked in hot water to soften the leaves). Add 3-4 tbsp of the mixture to banana leaves, secure both sides with toothpicks
- You also can use an oven-safe pan layered with banana leaves at the bottom. Cover with another banana leaves on top.
- Baked in preheated oven at 200 degree celcius for about 20 minutes (top and bottom heat)
- Ready to serve. Yummy!
Delicious as street food as well as in Otak-otak (otah-otah) is a South East Asian delight, popular in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia. A wide variety of otak otak options are available to you, such as part, texture, and variety. Otak-otak, also known as otah, is a dish of Malay and Peranakan origins. Description In Singapore, otak-otak, a savoury snack, is typically made from Spanish mackerel, or ikan tenggiri. Variations Otak-otak is usually wrapped flat in either coconut leaves or banana leaves and grilled in the oven or.
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