Silver Catfish in Durian Paste (Ikan Patin Masak Tempoyak)

INGREDIENTS

• Patin fish (cleaned and cut into three or four pieces )
• 4 or 5 tablespoon of tempoyak (durian paste)
• 5 -10 pieces (depending on how hot you want it to be) of "chili padi" (small chillies with simmering hot taste)
• 3 pieces of  wild ginger buds
• 2-3 stalks of lemon-grass
• 5 pieces of "daun kesum"
• 3-4 cm of ginger
• 2 – 2 ½ cups of plain water
• Salt, cooking oil and fine sugar

COOKING METHOD Warm oil in the pot. Saute the chili padi and ginger and stir them for a while.
Throw in the lemon-grass, wild ginger buds and daun kesum into the pot.
Then add water into the pot. Add the tempoyak and mix them all together. Stir until they all blend nicely.
Then put in the pieces of patin fish.
When the pot is boiling, put in salt and sugar according to taste.
Boil until the fish is fully cooked.
Smell the delicious aroma and hear your hunger pangs clammering!


Serve with rice......


EXTRA KNOWLEDGE

Wild ginger buds

Other names: bunga kantan

The bud of the Torch ginger plant (Etlingera Elatior). The flower buds are used whole in Malaysian cooking to flavor Malay and Nyonya dishes such as Penang Laksa and Rojak. It can make the food more tasty besides good for health . This ingredient will be very hard to find in the U.S. A substitute is Mi yoga ginger available in some Japanese grocery stores.

polygonum leaves Daun Kesum

Kesum in terms of scientifically known as Polygonum minus huds and comes from the family Polygonaceae. . It is easily grown, especially in moist areas of the water The leaves are used as ingredients for doing the local cuisine as laksa and spicy tamarind cooking. . Apart from the culinary herb kesum also has high medicinal value. It is effective for treating stomach problems are not digestible and dandruff. To relieve stomach problems are not digestible. . Kesum leaves boiled water and then drunk. . To treat dandruff, the crushed leaves kesum then extracted.  Water extraction was mixed with a little water before scalding kekulit head.  Allow 3-5 minutes then rinse with clean water