Name: Portuguese Baked Fish (Ikan Bakar Portugis)
Cuisine: Malaysian
Ingredients: Pomfret 1, about 600 g (1 lb 5 oz); Banana leaf 1 piece; Salt to taste; Sugar to taste; Lime ½, juice extracted; Dark soy sauce ½ Tbsp; Cooking oil 4 Tbsp; Shallots 8, peeled; Lemongrass 1 stalk, finely sliced; Red chillies 4, seeded; Candlenuts 4; Chilli powder 1 Tbsp; Kaffir lime leaves 2; Dried prawn (shrimp) paste (belacan) ½ tsp

Combine ingredients for spice paste in a food processor and blend until smooth. Heat oil in a wok and sauté the spice paste over low heat until fragrant. Add lime juice, soy sauce, salt and sugar.

Spread cooked paste over fish and wrap fish in a piece of banana leaf.

Bake in a preheated oven for 2

Portuguese Baked Fish

Ikan Bakar Portugis

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