Fish cooked with tamarind

Name: Fish cooked with tamarind (Pindang Ikan)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: vegetable oil; ½ tsp chilli powder; 2 cups water; sliced cucumber; salt; 4 mackerel, cleaned, and with the heads removed; 1 tbs sweet soya sauce; 4 cloves garlic; (½ tsp ground laos (galingale); 6 shallots; ½ tsp cayenne pepper; about 30 g (1 oz) tamarind; wedges of lemon

Pindang Ikan

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is good cold or hot, and it can be eaten as a main dish with rice or as a first course by itself.

Ingredients

4 mackerel, cleaned, and with the heads removed
½ tsp chilli powder
½ tsp

Asia
Indonesia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Spicy
South East Asia
Gluten-free

Method

Wash the mackerel with vinegar and rinse in cold water. Steam them for 20 minutes.

Slice the shallots and garlic, and fry in hot oil for 1 minute. Add the chilli, cayenne pepper, laos, soya sauce, tamarind and water. Add a pinch of salt, and taste. Pour this sauce over the fish in a deep sauc