Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade otah/singapore style otak otak. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fold the other edge in and press down gently. Use bamboo toothpicks to secure both ends of the otak-otak. Repeat until all the otak-otak paste is used up. Tip: Position grill rack close to the top heating coil.
Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have homemade otah/singapore style otak otak using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
- Prepare Spice Paste
- Get 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only)
- Make ready 60 gr galangal/blue ginger
- Make ready 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds
- Get 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds
- Make ready 150 gr shallots
- Get 5 cloves garlic
- Take Other ingredients
- Prepare 150 gr fresh coconut milk
- Make ready 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin)
- Make ready 200 gr fish paste
- Get 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Take 1 tbsp curry powder
- Make ready 1 tsp sugar
- Get 1-1.5 tsp salt
- Get 3 eggs
- Make ready 4 tbsp rice flour
- Get 1 tbsp corn flour
- Take 3 tbsp cooking oil
- Make ready 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely
- Prepare Banana leaves for wrapping
Otak is a popular side dish in Singapore and is made of mackerel fish meat blended with rempah and spices. It is usually wrapped in banana leaf and grilled over charcoal fire. It is a typical complement to a Nasi Lemak dish. While this recipe uses the steaming method, you can also opt for the grilling method by using a grill pan.
Instructions to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
- Soaked the dried chillies in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds. Prepare all ingredients. Finely chop the spice ingredients and put it in your food processor to make a paste.
- This is the fish paste I use. Ready to use from supermarket.
- Remove the meat from the bones/skin. Original recipe calls for 300 gr fish meat. But in the end I use 500 gr nett. Roughly chop. Set aside.
- Mix the spice paste from step one with 1 tbsp of coriander seeds powder and 1 tbsp of curry powder. Add salt and sugar
- Add fish paste and 3 eggs. Stir well until combined. After that add in rice flour and corn flour. Mix well, add coconut milk and 3 tbsp of oil.
- Add in the chopped fish meat and lastly, add the finely chopped kaffir lime leaves
- Wrapping time: use the clean banana leaves (wash and soaked in hot water to soften the leaves). Add 3-4 tbsp of the mixture to banana leaves, secure both sides with toothpicks
- You also can use an oven-safe pan layered with banana leaves at the bottom. Cover with another banana leaves on top.
- Baked in preheated oven at 200 degree celcius for about 20 minutes (top and bottom heat)
- Ready to serve. Yummy!
It is a typical complement to a Nasi Lemak dish. While this recipe uses the steaming method, you can also opt for the grilling method by using a grill pan. Meanwhile, baking the dish in the oven can also be a good option. Alternatively, substitute the fish with any other meat options, such as shrimp, crab meat, and cuttlefish, as well as the combination of different meats. The otah is then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed or grilled.
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