Asam pedas ikan pari

It was raining and gloomy out side. Love crawling under my soft handmade quilt :D and browsed through food blogs.Food!Food!Food!I love food .Hmm drooling when stumbled at asam pedas recipes.I need a  simple and quick recipe to whip for dinner tonight.This is my quick version of asam pedas pari .

Asam pedas pari (fish)


Ingredients
1kg ikan pari ,cut into bite-size pieces and cleaned with tamarind 
  juice


Finely ground paste
10 shallots,peeled
4 cloves garlic,peeled
1 inch ginger
1 inch of shrimp paste
10 dry chillies( seeded)


Tamarind juice
2 tablespoons of tamarind paste mix in 2 bowls of water
   salt to taste


Garnish
8 ladies finger (okra),whole
2 wild ginger flower (bunga kantan), halved legthwise
4 springs of vietnamese mint (daun kesom,daun laksa)
1 tomato,halved
2 stalks lemon grass,bruised


Method
1.Heat the oil in a soup pot and fry the ground paste until fragrant.
2.Pour in the tamarind  juice and heat up until boil.
3.Add in garnish  and fish(ikan pari ) simmer until the fish cooked. 
4.Seasoning to taste with salt.Ready to serve.


 We ate this asam pedas pari with plain rice,ayam goreng and kerabu 
 perut.


Kerabu perut  with mango


Ingredients for marinate
500g perut( cleaned,cooked) 
2 tbsp of fish sauce (nam pla)
1 clove garlic,chopped
ground white papper to taste


Salad ingredients
A handful of mint leaves
A handful of taugeh,cleaned
1 unripe mango,peeled and cut into thin strips
5 shallots ,peeled and thinly sliced
5 Chili padi (Bird's eye chilies),sliced
1 tomato,seeded and thinly sliced
2 daun limau purut (kaffir leaves) ,central steam removed and 
   shredded
1 serai (lemon grass),thinly sliced


Dressing(combined)
2 tbsp fish sauce(nam pla)
1 tbsp grated gula melaka to taste
4 limau kasturi (2 limau nipis-limes) squeezed for juice


Method
1.Slice cooked perut into thin 1/2 inch and match stick long .
2.Season perut with garlic and papper to tatse ,then marinate for 20 
   minutes.
3.Put all salad ingredients into a large bowl.Add perut and toss with dressing until evenly mixed.Serve  immediatetly.


Sawadeeka.My sister is going to Bangkok  middle of this month.I wanna tag along too.Bangkok is our other second homes.Would be nice to bring along my 2As ,visiting their birth place:D  so my kerabu perut have some thai influence.Just miss shopping (minus jam) in Bangkok.We had a  wonderful five years in the Kingdom of Smile. Sawadeeka :D