To live up to this website's name, I guess I should blog about something actually Malaysian. So I will show how I made a very basic staple Malaysian meal of fish, veg and soup.
For the soup, I just boiled some pork bones which I trimmed off the shoulder steaks which I marinated for Char Siew the next day. After an hour, I added potatoes, carrots, onions, and later on, tomatoes. Only salt, sugar and pepper is needed later on for taste.
For the soup, I just boiled some pork bones which I trimmed off the shoulder steaks which I marinated for Char Siew the next day. After an hour, I added potatoes, carrots, onions, and later on, tomatoes. Only salt, sugar and pepper is needed later on for taste.
For the fish, I use filleted mackerel. This is the closest you get to "ikan kembung" in the UK, which is my favourite fish in Malaysia. I could have cooked the fish whole, but wife and son do not like small bones in fish! For the veg, I bought freshly air-freighted kangkung (water spinach) from Thailand. Outside the winter months, you can actually buy Dutch kangkung here, but they are too thick for my liking.
I simply fry the fish in a non-stick pan. The fish will shed a lot of oil while frying, so there is no need to use too much in the beginning. I continue to fry the skin side in its own oil till it's crispy. Then turn it over and just lightly brown the flesh side. For the veg, I use my own sambal belachan (prawn chilli paste), where all the ingredients are readily available here.
Finally, I garnish both with fried garlic, ginger and shallots.
And dinner is served!
10 comments:
hmmm yummy dinner..i marinate my mackarel with some white miso, teriyaki sauce, mirin and some sugar..try it with other fishes also..tastes wonderful
the soup reminds me of a childhood friend called ABC Soup. lol! used to have that with white rice. well, instead of pork bones, we use anchovies.
Abc soup.. yes I make it all de time.. This is my fav soup all time becoz is easy to get from Sainsbury or Tesco...
u put sugar in your soup ? =.="
simple and nice! but i darn lazy to boil soup! NICE slurp!
joe:
When I first started making this dish, I did use a marinade, but I found that the sauce burnt in the cooking process, so I now add it at the end of the cooking process.
nic:
what does ABC stand for? Not hear it called this way before. Ikan bilis a bit more expensive that pork bones here ;)
wenn,
yeah, cheap to make too!Often, just use cast offs from other dishes.
ling,
I do use sugar with most dishes, but not enough to be able to taste it.... just enough to give the taste a little bit more "body". Eg, even in chow kuey teow, you get sugar, which comes from the kicap manis.
yammy,
I too am too lazy to boil soup on its own, but if I am already in kitchen and using by-products of the other dishes I am cooking, it's not so much hassle :)
hey hazza,
How come the KangKung so long eh~
Cook with Sambal even BEST!
Hazza, if i'm not wrong, it stands for all the vitamins in the soup.
vitamin a = carrots
vitamin b = potatoes
vitamin c = tomatoes
i hope i'm right..haha!
this meal is as malaysian as it can get! ABC soup is one of my all time faves!
bigfish,
I think kangkung is normally like this, but market trader trim off some of the brance.
nic,
I never even knew it was called abc soup. Thanks for the enlightenment!
sc,
I craved this soup for many years before trying to make it myself. Never knew it was so simple!
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