Recipe: Tasty Malay Fish Curry

Malay Fish Curry.

You can have Malay Fish Curry using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Malay Fish Curry

1. You need of Halba Campur (Thalippu Spice Blend) recipe;.
2. You need 1 Tbsp of Mustard Seeds.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of Fenugreek.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of Fennel Seeds.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of Cumin Seeds.
6. It's 1 tsp of Black Gram (Ulunthu).
7. It's of Main Ingredients;.
8. It's 130 g of Sea bass fillet (mackerel is good too).
9. You need 2 Tbsp of Curry Powder (see Malay Chicken Curry).
10. You need 1 Tbsp of Halba Campur.
11. Prepare 20 g of Shallots (finely chopped).
12. Prepare 10 g of Garlic (finely chopped).
13. It's 20 g of Ginger (finely chopped).
14. Prepare 6 of curry leaves.
15. It's 100 g of Potatoes (slice).
16. Prepare 100 g of Tomatoes (diced).
17. Prepare 2 pc of Tamarind slices.
18. Prepare 1/2 cup of Coconut milk.
19. It's 1/2 cup of Water.
20. It's 2 tsp of Sugar.
21. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
22. You need 3 Tbsp of Cooking Oil.
23. It's 1 Stalk of Spring Onion (for Garnish).

Malay Fish Curry instructions

1. In a wok heat cooking oil on high heat. Fry the Halba Campur spice blend until fragrant. Then add the shallots, garlic and ginger and fry these until fragrant. Then add the curry powder and mix well until that is fragrant..
2. Next add the tomatoes and potatoes and fry for 1 minute. After that, add 1/2 cup of water and cover with a lid. Let it stew for 5 minutes while stirring every 1 minute..
3. Next turn down the heat to low heat. Add in the coconut milk, tamarind slices, curry leaves, sugar, salt and then mix well. Add in the fish and cover with lid for 5 minutes. Serve on a plate and garnish with spring onions..
4. COMMENTARY; Black Gram that you use for this is the processed one and it is white in color. The Malay name for it is Halba Putih (White Fenugreek) which is wrong. You can substitute Black Gram with Nigella Seeds (Black Carraway) and this spice blend recipe is called Panch Phoron that is used in Northeast India (Bengal, Nepal).

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