Ikan woku (fish in herbal curry)
Ikan woku (fish in herbal curry)

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Great recipe for Ikan woku (fish in herbal curry). Woku is a type of bumbu (spice mixture) found in Manado cuisine of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It has rich aroma and spicy taste.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ikan woku (fish in herbal curry) using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Ikan woku (fish in herbal curry):
  1. Make ready 1 red snappers (about 1 kg total), clean and cut to 4-6 pieces
  2. Make ready (I use 6 part of snapper fin meat)
  3. Make ready 1 lime, extract the juice
  4. Get 1 teaspoon salt
  5. Take 3 tablespoons oil
  6. Prepare 2 lemongrass, bruised and knotted
  7. Get 1 pandanus leaves (you can find at the Asian grocery)
  8. Make ready 5 kaffir lime leaves
  9. Prepare 1 liter water
  10. Prepare 3 green tomato, cut each inti halves
  11. Get 1 tomato cut into quarter
  12. Take 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
  13. Take Grind the following into spice paste
  14. Take 100 gram shallot
  15. Take 3 cloves garlic
  16. Take 10 red cayenne chillies
  17. Make ready 2-10 red bird's eye chillies (or more if you like more spicy)
  18. Prepare 2 inch ginger
  19. Prepare 1 inch turmeric
  20. Prepare 3 candlenuts
  21. Prepare Garnish
  22. Get 2 scallions, thinly sliced
  23. Get 1 handful lemon basil/Thai basil leaves

Add water and bring to boil toss in the fish and continue to cook over low heat. Add cumin loaves and spring onions, simmer until cooked. When the sauce is completely absorbed, adjust seasoning if necessary than the last add basil leaves. Remove from heat and serve with rice.

Instructions to make Ikan woku (fish in herbal curry):
  1. Heat oil in a wok/pan on high heat and sauté spice paste, lemongrass, pandan leaves, and kaffir lime leaves until fragrant, about 5 minutes.
  2. Add the fish into the wok/pan, mix well. - Add water and bring to a boil.  Add grean tomato, tomato, and season with salt.  - Reduce heat, and simmer until the sauce is slightly reduced, about 30 minutes. Adjust the salt as needed.
  3. Turn off heat, transfer to a serving plate, garnish with scallions and lemon basil.
  4. Enjoy with rice and crackers, happy cooking guys 😍

So here my recipe for Pepes Ikan Woku ( It can be translated as Steamed Fish with Woku Spices in Banana Leaves ). Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste. Add the water and the fish and let it cook slowly. Curry fish is one of the popular dishes in Malaysia and Singapore, curry fish in these countries are an improvised version from the origin country India in order to suit the local taste. You can simply prepare a pot of curry to go with white rice and call it a meal for the day.

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