Easiest Way to Make Favorite Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak
by Catherine Cunningham
Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade otah/singapore style otak otak. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
Make ready Spice Paste
Get 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only)
Take 60 gr galangal/blue ginger
Prepare 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds
Prepare 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds
Take 150 gr shallots
Get 5 cloves garlic
Take Other ingredients
Take 150 gr fresh coconut milk
Take 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin)
Get 200 gr fish paste
Make ready 1 tbsp coriander powder
Take 1 tbsp curry powder
Make ready 1 tsp sugar
Take 1-1.5 tsp salt
Make ready 3 eggs
Get 4 tbsp rice flour
Make ready 1 tbsp corn flour
Make ready 3 tbsp cooking oil
Take 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely
Take Banana leaves for wrapping
Steps 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!
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