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In this blog i dedicate to give you the best of Original Indonesian Recipes...

Indonesian food comes from many sources of ingredients and spices, from various kinds of chillies, ginger, shallot, turmeric to coconut milk. Combining those natural spicy ingredients provides you unique dishes from Indonesia, the islands of spices...

To All food lovers, I really encourage you to try the taste of Indonesian foods, most of them are spicy and have exotic tastes you've never experienced before, I'm serious...
They're really worth trying... :)

Gangan (Belitung style fish soup)

This is a Belitung / Belitong Style Fish Soup. Indonesian Popular Novelist Andrea Hirata who wrote the Tetralogi, "Laskar Pelangi", "Sang Pemimpi", and "Edensor" stated the menu as one of his favorite dishes in one interview.

Honestly, this is a very unique dish for me... It has Cassava cut into pieces and added into the soup, Hm.. that's very tempting...


Ingredients:
500 gr ikan bandeng (mackarel)
500 gr singkong (cassava)
1000 ml water
2 salam leaves
1 tsp asem (tamarind)
1 tsp palmsugar
1/2 tsp salt

Spices to grind:

2 shallots
3 candlenuts
4 cloves garlic
3 cm ginger
2 cm laos
3 cm turmeric
4 red chillies
1 tsp shrimp paste / terasi /belacan
1 lemon grass


Directions:
  1. Clean the fish and slice it into pieces.
  2. Slice the singkong (cassava) into small pieces.
  3. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste.
  4. Heat in a pan the water and add the spices, the salam and the singkong (cassava).
  5. Lower the heat and add the fish, the salt and the palmsugar and let it simmer slowly until the singkong and the fish are cooked.

Recipe source:
http://asianrecipe.eu/indonesian/sopsoto/616-gangan-fish-soup-with-cassave-from-belitung

Image source:
http://rustameffendie.multiply.com/journal/item/1

1 comment:

Sense of Blogging said...

Belitung is not only beautiful islands, but delicious local food also... Gangan Ikan