When I bought this fish, I aimed to cook gulai ikan. "Gulai", a spicy Indonesian dish with thick coconut milk. Hmmm… how many times in the week I cooked using coconut milk? How many calories that would be?

Then.. I cooked the fish for our brunch in a different way. Brunch? Yes, too late for breakfast and too early for lunch (It was weekend, my friend! ).I fried the fish with small amount of oil, then set it aside. Stir-fried the spice. Spice ingredients are minced garlic, some chunks of chili, onion leaf, two thin slices galangal, lemon grass, and very small amount of coconut milk . Then stir-fried the fish together with the spice, let the fish absorbed the spice. Ooops! Did I mention salt? Haha, don’t ya ever forget salt when you cook .

The fish is followed by salad from asparagus and thin slices of carrot. Ouw, picture of the dressing is below. Hmmm.. delicious dressing.

It will be more healthy if we closed the brunch with fruits, and we chose kiwi . For drink, I chose sweet sour apple tea … . This is one of my favorite tea.

Do you guys think also about healthy food?

Pempek is a specialty from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Ingredients of Pempek are minced belida fish, garlic and sago flour. Since there is no belida fish here in Japan, we used Tenggiri fish. Ah, Tenggiri is in Bahasa Indonesia(Indonesian Language), you may call it Mackerel in English. We couldn’t find also sago flour, therefore we substituted it with tapioca flour. The sauce is made of tamarind, vinegar, brown sugar, garlic, chili and water. 

Pempek Pempek Palembang
(Source: NCC Mailing List)

Bahan 1
1 kg bersih daging Ikan Tenggiri, haluskan dengan Blender
200 ml air
2 butir telur

1. Bahan 1 dicampur dan diaduk-aduk dengan jari tangan sampai tercampur homogen. masukan kulkas, biarkan menjadi mengental.
2. Bahan 2, dicampur dan didihkan dengan api kecil sambil diaduk terus sampai mengental, dinginkan dan masukan kulkas.
3. 30 menit kemudian, Campurkan adonan bahan 1 dan bahan 2, aduk dengan jari tangan sampai tercampur rata.
4. Masukan tepung sagu kedalam campuran adonan Ikan sedikit demi sedikit, sambil diuleni dengan ujung jari tangan.
5. Adonan masih agak terasa lengket, supaya gampang dibentuk, lumuri tangan dengan sagu, ambil sesendok makan adonan dan bentuk bulat panjang. atau bisa juga dijadikan pempek kapal selam.
6. Masukan pempek yang sudah dibentuk dalam air mendidih, sampai matang (pempek akan mengapung). Kemudian tiriskan pempek, dan goreng dalam minyak yg panas.