Asam Pedas Grey Mullet

I was planning to post an entry about my Back-To-Work pressie bought for me by MrHubby, unfortunately, I couldn't find my camera under the mounting stuffs (I haven't fully unpack my stuffs..we just moved into this new house a couple of days ago). So instead, I'll share with you an Asam Pedas recipe.

I used Grey Mullet fish ( don't know if they have this fish back home). But I know mullet family is like ikan kerisi back home. They have red mullet here in Ireland, looks like ikan kerisi merah in Malaysia but slightly hodoh compared to Malaysian fish..hehe..

It was the first time we ever tried this fish. This fish was actually really tasty (compared to Rockfish that we bought sometimes ago). It was fleshy, sweet (taste like most of fish back home) and it took Asian flavour nicely.

Se here is the recipe for Asam Pedas Ikan Kerisi Kelabu (Grey Mullet)
Original recipe: My mommy

Ingredients:

• 1 Grey Mullet (700g) or you could use any fish that you like (washed and drained)
  
• 1 large onion peeled *
• 3-4 cloves of garlic peeled *
• 2-3 cm of ginger peeled*
• 3 tbsp of chilli paste (more if you want it to be spicier)
• 2 lemongrasses (crushed/bruised)
• Handful of Daun kesum/ Laksa leaves/ Hot mint leaves/ Vietnamese leaves
• 3-4 tbsp of tamarind paste + 3cups of water (make 3cups of tamarind juice)
• 10 okra (washed and drained)
• 2 tomatoes (cubes) -I used cherry tomatoes
• 3 tbsp of cooking oil
• Salt and sugar to taste
  

Method:

1. Blend the ingredients that marked *
2. Heat up the cooking oil in the saucepan. Add in the blended ingredients and the lemongrass and cook for about 3-5minutes. Add in chilli paste and cook further for 5minutes.
3. Add in the tamarind juice and bring to boil.
4. Add in the daun kesum, okra and the fish. Cook for 10 minutes until fish is cooked. Add in the tomatoes and let it simmer for 3-5minutes and turn off the heat.
5. Ready to be served with warm boiled rice ;))

p/s: I added in the tomatoes as the last ingredients as I like my tomatoes not too soft.

Sweet and Sour Rockfish

It's called a Rockfish, caught in the Atlantic Sea, near the Irish coast. This was the first time we ever saw this fish, but we bought it nonetheless. We're missing Malaysian style seafood so much and it's very hard to get variety of seafood here in Ireland despite this country is surrounded by sea!!

So, without any hesitation because of our craving, MrHubby paid for the fish (cost17euro for the whole fish! So expensive!!) and we headed home. The very next day, I scaled this fish (took alot of effort!) and cut it into 3 pieces. It was a big fish for us to finish in a single feast ;))

As requested by MrHubby, I cooked Sweet and Sour Rockfish. Let me share this recipe. It's simple and quick enough to make, best served with hot and steamy white rice ;))

Sweet and Sour Rockfish
Source: Myself ;))

Fish:

• 300g portion of Rockfish (you could use Seabass/Seabream/Snapper/Grouper)
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 1/2 tsp of tumeric powder
  
• 4 tbsp of cornflour (or enough to cover the fish portion)
• Cooking oil (deep fry)

Method:

1. Clean the fish portion and dry it with kitchen towel.
2. Season the fish with the salt and tumeric powder for 10-15mins. Meanwhile, preheat the cooking oil in a wok/deep fryer.
   
3. Cover the fish with cornflour. And when the cooking oil is hot (190'C if using deep fryer), fry the fish portion for 10-15mins or until cooked. Set aside.

Sweet and Sour Sauce:

• 1 mediun onion (thinly sliced)
• 3 cloves of garlic (smashed)
• 2cm of ginger (peeled and thinly sliced)
• 1 tbsp of chilli paste
  
• 1 lemon grass (smashed)
• 1 leek (cut into chunky pieces)
• 2 tomatoes (chunky cubes)
• 4-5 tbsp of thai sweet chilli sauce
• 2 tbsp of chilli sauce
  
• 2 tbsp of lemon juice
• 1 tbsp of fish sauce
• 1 tbsp of tomato ketchup
• 50ml of water
  
• 3 tbsp of cooking oil
  
• 2 onion springs ( chopped/long cuts) for decorations

Method:

1. Heat up the cooking oil in a wok/saucepan
2. Stir in the onion, leek, garlic, ginger, lemongrass and chilli paste. Cook for about 3-5minutes.
3. Add in the the rest of the ingredients (except the spring onion) and bring it to boil. Turn off the heat and pour the sauce onto the fried fish. Spread the chopped spring onion and it's ready to be served!

p/s: I don't know what's been going on with blogger recently, I couldn't turn around those pics!