Name: Fish relish (Sambal Ikan)
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 1 cup thick santen (coconut milk); 3 cabé rawit or 2 tsp chilli powder; 2 tbs vegetable oil; 2 tbs tamarind water or 2 tsp tomato purée; 4 kemiri (candlenuts); 1 can of tuna fish about 120 g (4 oz, or 1 eel or 90 g (3 oz) ikan teri; 1 tsp brown sugar; 3 shallots, peeled and chopped; salt; 4 cloves garlic

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

I find that the easiest and tastiest Sambal Ikan is made with canned tuna fish. Sambal made with eel, however, is also delicious; cut the eel up very small and wash it in vinegar. In Indonesia we make this sambal with ikan teri or ikan bilis (tiny dried anchovies).

Ingredients

1 can of tuna fish about 120 g (4 oz, or 1

Method

Pound the garlic, shallots, kemiri and cabé rawit into a paste. Fry this paste in vegetable oil in a wok for about half a minute. Put in the tuna fish, eel or teri; Stir-fry for 1 minute and add the tamarind water, or tomato purée, sugar and salt. Stir in the santen, and go on simmering until the mixture becomes thick. This sambal can be served hot or cold.