Decided to migrate my recipe blog here too, easier to maintain ;)
Here are the 3 entries from the blog:
Recipe: BBQ Salt Fish
I know what you all thinking, how to eat a fish when its all covered in salt, but that's the idea. Besides steaming the fish, I think this is another best way to eat it and its superbly easy to do!
The idea of salt is that it will absorb moisture out of the fish, leaving pure and nice flesh! You can use any fish for this but I recommend sea fish. I used "left mouth fish" which is cheap (average RM4-8 per fish) and I ask the fishmonger to clean the internal but DO NOT scale it.
Simply prepare a piece of aluminium foil and make a bed of sea salt (get the cheapest you can find, its about 30-40 cents per bag, average 2 bags per fish), you may add in dried herbs into the salt to enhanced the flavour if you want but I find it not necessary. When you have the foil and salt bed ready, just slice some lemon and chinese parsley and stuff into the fish. Then place the fish on top of the salt bed and cover the top with more sea salt. Fold your foil up on the side so its easy to pick up and place it on top of your BBQ fire.
Leave it there for about 20-30 mins, not too long otherwise the flesh will be too dry. One good way to judge if its ready is that the salt will dry and form a rock like surface.
Remove the fish from the fire, crack open the salt, then cut the skin from the head and pull the whole skin up, do it gently and you will be able to remove the skin in 1 piece. Then simply dig into the flesh! You can supplement it with chilli sauce or whatever you fancy :)
Try it, its fun!
Recipe: Simple Nasi Lemak
Here's a quick guide to making simple and easy to make Nasi Lemak at home. Stuff to prepare includes Ginger, Shallots, Coconut Milk, Rice, Salt & Pandan Leaves. Slice the ginger and peel off the skin of the shallots. Wash your rice (usually I use 1 cup per 2 pax) then add in ginger, shallots and pandan leaves. Top it with the coconut milk and salt then cook in rice cooker, when it's almost cook, stir it and top it with a little more coconut milk if needed.
As for the sambal, I usually use the shortcut, just buy the sambal chili or chili boh from the supermarket. Firstly I will fry sliced shallots or onions with some oil, then add in ikan bilis (anchovies) and lastly the chili. You will need to add salt, sugar and lime juice to taste. Don't need to cook this too long, once you got the right taste scoop it up to cool and don't use too much oil :)
You can add other complimentary stuff like sliced cucumbers, fried ikan bilis, boiled eggs, etc. My only purpose is to eat it with grill fish :P
Recipe: Banana Leaf Grill Seafood
Here's a simple recipe for grilling seafood at home, its basically curry marinate mixed and book on banana leaf for the special aroma.
For this round, my dad managed to help me buy some cheap baby river cat fish, 30 cents each! I went on to the market and bought some squids and prawns. To marinate, I rub fish curry powder all over the seafood, then added soya sauce, pounced lemon grass, curry leaves, lime juice and coconut milk. Let it sit for 4-8 hours in the fridge.
When ready, just have your banana leaf cleaned and grease with cooking oil. Then heat the pan, wrap the banana leaf over the seafood and grill them on mid-low fire till cooked.
Perfect to be served with nasi lemak! :)
This is a small restaurant just operating outside a house in PJ oldtown. It located directly next to Ah Lek Aquarium. The place only have 4-5 tables and a 2-3 person to operate the whole place.
Our tom yam fish head comes in a big pan with various tom yam ingredents inside, lemon grass, lime leaves, chili, onions, etc. The soup is flaming hot a first, but after a few burning but addictive sip, you just want to keep it coming. Its spicy and sour and is really living up to the name of Thai food.
Total damage is RM75 for 3 pax and the above dishes. The tom yam is expensive but the fish they use are good, so once a blue moon eat here still can tahan lar :)
