MELAKA ASSAM PEDAS

Ingredients


Spices (grind and combine):

1 onion. 5 shallots. 25 stalks chillies, 1 inch ginger, 1 tbsp aniseed, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1 inch tumeric, 3 clovesgarlic.


Sautee:


1 oinion, finely cliced. 1/2 tsp mustard seed. 1/2 tsp fenugreek. 5 sprigs curry leaves. 500g Spanish mackerel or wolf herring or river herring (cleaned).
2/3 cup cooking oil.
3tbsp tamarind mix with 3/4 cup water. 1.5 liter water. 2 tomatoes, cut into wedges. 1 brinjal, cut into sliced. 10 ladies finger. 2 stalks wild ginger flower buds. 1 tbsp salt or to taste. 1 tsp seasoning.


Method:


1. Heat the pot and put in the cooking oil. Fry the sliced onion and all the sautes until fragrant.
2. Add in the ground ingredients and salt, fry until all the ingredients mixed up with the sautes. Add in tamarind juice stir until everything mixed in.
3. Put int the fish and mix with wild ginger flower buds.
4. Add water, seasoning, ladies finger and brinjal. Simmer over a low heat until all the ingredients and the fish soaked in the gravy. Then, add in tomatoes.
5. Continue to simmer for 5-6 minutes. Stir in seasoning, then dish out to serve with a sprinkling of wild ginger buds as garnishing.