Fish For Friday

Simple but Scrumptious.  Easy to prepare, home style of cooking fish. I use Barramundi for this dish, but other white fish is as good.  Deep fried fish in batter-based on Javanese cooking.

Deep Fried Barramundi Garnished With Yellow Rice & Eggplant Pure

Recipe

Deep Fried Spiced Fish in Batter

Ingredients

2 fillets white fish, Barramundi or other

(100g each)

The Batter:

1/4cup self-rising flour

1/4cup plain flour

1/2cup cold water

Salt and spices:

-         Chili, garlic, crushed,

-         Chives, chopped, galangal powder

-         ¼ teaspoon salt

2 cups of oil for frying

2 cups shredded lettuce

Method

The batter

In a bowl, place the salt and flour, stir in the water, mix and stir it well

Let the batter rest for a while

In another bowl place the fish, add in all the spices ingredients and toss together

To fry

Put the oil in a deep fryer; heat it up until hot but not smoking

Dip the spiced fish into the batter; fry them in hot oil until golden

Take the fish out when they are cooked and rest them on top of the lettuce.

To Serve: serve hot with the steamed rice and eggplant puree with chilli

Eggplant Pure

            1 baked eggplant

            Skinned and pure with a food processor

            Add in chopped fresh chilli, salt and oil, mix to combine

Happy Cooking

The Spices

Spiced Raw Barramundi - Fish

Deep Fried Barramundi In Batter

Note:
The texture and the taste of Barramundi are similar to 'Ikan Gurameh' (verity of fish is found in Java)