Asian Seafood Recipes - Indonesian Fish in Creamy Gravy (Ikan Gulai Putih)  Recipe

Ingredients

• 1lb. (500 g.) fish (cleaned)

• salt to taste

• 1 tablespoon tamarind paste

• 1 1/2 cups thin santan/thin coconut milk

• 5 blimbing masam/finger carambola or sour pickles

• 1 stalk serai/lemon grass (crushed)

• 2 daun limau purut/curly lime leaves

• a pinch of sugar

• 1 cup thick santan/thick coconut milk 

Ground Ingredients:

• 5 red chilies

• 10 shallots

• 1 clove garlic

• 1/2-inch (1.2-cm.) piece terasi/dried shrimp paste (dry-fried)

• 4 buah keras/candlenuts

• 2 slices laos/ galangal

Serves 4-6

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Method:

1. Season the fish with salt and tamarind paste. Leave aside for 10 minutes.

2. Mix the ground ingredients, carambola, lemon grass and lime leaves into the thin coconut milk. Cook gently till aromatic. Season to taste and add sugar.

3. Add fish to simmering mixture and simmer till cooked through.

4. Add the thick coconut milk. Blend well and adjust seasoning. Remove from flame.

5. Discard lemon grass and lime leaves. Dish up and serve hot.