Tuna Curry Gulai Ikan Tongkol Terengganu - Mff Terengganu #2

Tuna is locally known equally ikan tongkol, ikan aya or ikan kayu, depending on which land you are inward.
It’sec a budget friendly fish and my fish being at virtually 1kg earlier cleaning is sold at RM8/kg.

Gulai ikan tongkol is normally eaten amongst nasi dagang, or the other style circular, whichever style, LOL.
It is different from Kelantan’sec version. From what I recall, Kelantan’s version is more xanthous, tasting slightly more “curry like” maybe due to its turmeric content. Whereas Terengganu’sec version is more than “assam”, as in sour.

Whenever I go to Kuala Terengganu, I will endeavor my best to take my Nasi Dagang make at Kak Pah’second located at Pantai Batu Burok. It was where I had my first Nasi Dagang. vii of us having breakfast amongst 21 plates on the table. Each soul were given i plate of rice, 1 plate of fish, ane plate of pickled vegetables, so, you tin can do the maths. Whole tabular array filled alongside plates! It was a funny sight asking around, is this mine, is this yours… LOL. Kak Pah’s rice has this boing boing texture that I discover difficult to forget. It sense of taste like eating Bario rice. And her gulai ikan tongkol is rattling prissy, spicy and sourish.. perfect pairing with the tacky rice. The sourness raises the appetite together with decreases the cloying issue of coconut milk infused viscid rice. I loved it sooo much that I drank all the gravy. When I came dorsum from my trip, I happened to come across a Nasi Dagang Terengganu recipe featured inwards the Star. I apace cut it out in addition to kept it, only it’second at my mom’second house. I didn’t become dwelling house to get it for this web log mail.

On my 5th trip to Terengganu, I introduced this dish to my and so fellow (directly hubby). Maybe he was tired from the whole East Coast trip too sleeping on foreign beds, and then he didn’t intend too much of the rice. But when I cooked it this fourth dimension, solely did he actually sense of taste the gulai, the rice and gave me adept feedback. And my MIL said, “We could’ve made this for Reuben’s birthday the other twenty-four hour period. It’second exceptional together with nice.”
I don’t want to comment too much on my take on this, but I can enjoin, I can be proud of myself.

All make for Step #five onwards

It'second a usual practice to buy the ready mixed spice for gulai ikan tongkol, simply since it'second only easily available inward Terengganu, it'll live difficult for others to replicate it at abode. And I found this recipe suppposedly from a imperial ready for the Terengganu Sultanate that uses a ratio of ii:one of coriander seeds to fennel seeds, so I made my own spice mix amongst this given ratio.

My gulai likewise looked really blood-red due to the chilli rock oil all floating to the tiptop. My dried chillies are rather scarlet too spicy. I similar to purchase from one time sure shop solely because dried chillies bought at other places aren't every bit intense, colour in addition to flavor wise. It's my error that my coconut milk released besides much crude oil, just the colour is indeed attractive :)

Terengganu Fish Curry (Gulai Ikan Aya Terengganu)
Sourced alongside adaptations: Noor Masri
*DIY Spice mix ratio referred from here

750gm-1kg tuna
10gm asam gelugor (or supplant amongst tamarind paste, just purpose more than until the broth gustatory modality sourish)
1L water
*2 Tbsp coriander seeds
*i Tbsp fennel seeds

100gm shallots

2 cloves garlic

15gm dried chilli (15pcs)

20gm galangal

20gm ginger

200ml kokosnoot milk (undiluted)

Salt to gustation

2-3 Tbsp palm saccharide

four carmine birds eye chilli

iv green bird’sec eye chilli, lightly pat alongside side of cleaver

100gm belimbi (belimbing buluh), halved

one. Slice tuna into ane inch thick pieces. Keep the caput. Rinse fish until water runs clear (no more bloody liquids)

ii. Boil the water amongst asam gelugor together with lay inwards fish. Let it simmer for five minutes. Turn off the estrus.
three. Lightly toast coriander seed and fennel seed in wok in addition to so manufactory them finely.
four. Mill chilli, shallots, garlic, galangal and ginger together into a paste.

five. Heat wok on medium low heat and put inward four Tbsp of petroleum. Cook chilli paste until it smells skilful. Put inwards milled spices. Cook until the mixture looks glossy.

6. Put in coconut milk as well as prepare until the mixture comes to a boil (it power ooze roughly petroleum).

vii. Pour inward the fish broth in addition to take to a boil on high oestrus. Season salt as well as palm sugar. Let it simmer for ane-2 minutes.

viii. Put inwards fish pieces too bring dorsum to a boil. Put inwards chilli together with belimbi together with plough off the rut.

9. Serve alongside nasi dagang or patently white rice.

Recipe for nasi dagang, Terengganu manner, delight cite hither

I am submitting this to Lena of Frozen Wings