Ikan Bakar Rica-Rica - Spicy Grilled Fish

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Author: Anita Jacobson

Categories: Main Dish

Cuisines: Indonesian

Ingredients: Seafood

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 40 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 4 tilapia fish fillet (about 700 gram total) (*)
• salt
• pepper
• juice of 1 lime
• 100 ml oil
• 6 kaffir lime leaves
• 2 tomatoes, minced roughly
• 1/2 tablespoon salt
• 1 teaspoon palm sugar (or brown sugar)
• tamarind juice (1 tablespoon tamarind + 3 tablespoon water, mix well, strained)
• Grind the following into spice paste
• 100 gram shallot
• 10 red fresno chilies
• 5 bird eye chilies (Indonesian: cabe rawit) (**)
• 1 inch ginger

Instructions

1. Sprinkle fish fillet with salt, pepper, and juice of 1 lime. Set aside for 15 minutes.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan, sauté spice paste and kaffir lime leaves until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat, then add in tomatoes, salt, sugar, and tamarind juice. Mix well.
3. Pour the sauce to the fish, coat well, set aside to marinate for 20 minutes.
4. Preheat oven broiler. Line a baking tray with aluminum foil.
5. Place fish on the prepared baking tray, broiled until cooked and slightly charred on both sides, about 5 minutes per side should be enough, but this will depend on your oven and how far you place your fish from the heat source, so please use your own judgement on the exact cooking time. (***)

Notes

• (*) Other white fish suitable for grilling/broiling can be used as well.
• (**) Omit this for less spicy dish.
• (***) You can also grill the fish instead of using an oven broiler.