Ingredients:
- 180gr Sea bass fillet or Stingray fillet
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 4pc Shallots
- 6 tblesp Chili paste
- ¼ tsp Turmeric
- 1/4 tsp Toasted Shrimp paste
- 2 no’s Lemon grass
- 1 ½ tsp Ginger
- 30gr Galangal
- 2 no’s Kaffir lime leave
- 1/4 tsp Sugar
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 4 tblesp Oil
- 1 tblesp Lime juice
- 50ml Tamarind Juice
- Banana Leaves
Asian Tamarind Sauce:
- 3pcs Red chilies –thinly sliced
- 2pcs Bird’s eye chilies –thinly sliced
- 1 tsp Toasted shrimp paste
- 2pcs Shallots- thinly sliced
- 1 tblesp Sugar
- 150ml Tamarind Juice
- 50ml Water
- 1 tsp Salt
Method:
- Blend all the spices until they become a puree.
- Heat the oil in a medium pan, fry the chili paste until cooked, then pour in the blended spice mixture & stir until it’s cooked through again.
- Put in toasted prawn paste, kaffir lime leaves, tamarind juice and lime juice.
- Cook for a few minutes, season with sugar, salt, a pinch of black pepper and let it cool for 10-15 minutes.
- Clean the fish and pat dry with a kitchen towel, coat the fish evenly with the spice mixture.
- Wrap the whole fish with banana leaves and using toothpicks to secure it tightly.
- Put the parcel in a fridge and let it marinade over night.
- Grill the fish parcel for about 5-10 minutes on each side.
- Serve with the tamarind sauce (mix all of the ingredients in a bowl & season with salt and sugar.
Notes:
If the tamarind sauce when tasted is too spicy, the heat can be overcome and balanced by adding a little more sugar. When cooking the spice mixture one must cook it very slowly to ensure that the mixture does not burn, the burned taste will stay throughout the whole life of the sauce and can not be removed. Again Chef Bob from E&O restaurants has made a lovely, very simple and famous Asian dish from this end of the world. Locally this dish is called Ikan Bakar and is widely enjoyed by all.
Happy Cooking!
I love the idea of baking fish in the banana leaf parcels (which I have seen before in one of the cooking shows) and I have to get hold of some. This fish looks fantanstic.
Hi Karolina,
The banana leaves work as a kind of wrap or insulator stopping the fish from burning, although the leaf will get charred the fish will be fine.
I am sure that you can buy banana leaves from any vegetable market, especially from areas where there is a large Asian population.
Thanks for dropping by and I look forward to hearing from you again soon.
Warm regards,
Mike
By the way – would you recommend good Asian deli in Harrogate? Sometimes I go shopping there, so I would get some stuff for cooking which is difficult to get hold of in the Dales…
Hi Karoline,
I have been living outside Harrogate for quite a while now so I am not really up to date if there would be an Asian Deli there.
I am however going back to see mum and dad this summer so I will get back to you soon.
Thanks for dropping by again.
Warm regards,
Mike.
nice post! very tempting and delicious. I wanna try this with a different spice.
Hi Spice Rack,
To try and help this community blog improve, can you share with us what different spice you would like to use.
I am only asking so that others can have a different handle or idea on how to marinade the fish for this dish.
Thanks for dropping by and for sharing.
Warm regards,
Mike.
We made this recipe last night…thge kids loved it and hubby thought it was the bomb.
Hi,
Glad that you gave it a shot and even more glad that it worked out
Take care and hope to hear from you again soon.
Warm regards,
Mike.