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Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

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Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

You can cook Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

  1. You need Spice Paste.
  2. You need 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only).
  3. Prepare 60 gr galangal/blue ginger.
  4. It's 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds.
  5. You need 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds.
  6. It's 150 gr shallots.
  7. It's 5 cloves garlic.
  8. You need Other ingredients.
  9. You need 150 gr fresh coconut milk.
  10. It's 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin).
  11. You need 200 gr fish paste.
  12. It's 1 tbsp coriander powder.
  13. You need 1 tbsp curry powder.
  14. It's 1 tsp sugar.
  15. It's 1-1.5 tsp salt.
  16. It's 3 eggs.
  17. It's 4 tbsp rice flour.
  18. It's 1 tbsp corn flour.
  19. It's 3 tbsp cooking oil.
  20. It's 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely.
  21. It's Banana leaves for wrapping.

Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak instructions

  1. 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..
  2. This is the fish paste I use. Ready to use from supermarket..
  3. 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..
  4. Mix the spice paste from step one with 1 tbsp of coriander seeds powder and 1 tbsp of curry powder. Add salt and sugar.
  5. 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..
  6. Add in the chopped fish meat and lastly, add the finely chopped kaffir lime leaves.
  7. 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.
  8. You also can use an oven-safe pan layered with banana leaves at the bottom. Cover with another banana leaves on top..
  9. Baked in preheated oven at 200 degree celcius for about 20 minutes (top and bottom heat).
  10. Ready to serve. Yummy!.

Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak - Thank you and good luck