Fish in tumeric broth

This is very easy to cook. It gives a light fish flavour and can be eaten with jasmine rice/long grain or noodles.

about 600gm snapper fish ( I think you can use any white-fleshed fish) cut into slices

1/2 large onion

4-5 slices of ginger

1 clove garlic

1 knob fresh tumeric ( I used powdered version as I did not have fresh )

1 stalk lemon grass, crushed

make 2 cups of tamarind juice from about 3/4 Tablespoon tamarind pulp

1 tumeric leaf ( I ommited as I did not have )

salt, pepper to taste

1. Pound onions, ginger and garlic. Saute this with tumeric and crushed lemon grass until fragrant. Add the 2 cups of tamarind juice and bring to boil.

2. Add in fish slices and turn heat down and simmer until cooked.

3. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Black Pepper Seafood Udon Noodles

Black Pepper Seafood Udon Noodles

I got this recipe from another blogger Terri whose specialty seems to be Chinese cooking. However, this I feel is a more Japanese feel to it because of the udon noodles. However, the sauces are actually more chinese based. Well, that’s what I thought.It had good flavours and was easy to cook. I had to cook the noodles slightly longer because I was lazy and did not at least blanch them first. I also used thick kecap manis instead of chinese thick soya sauce, hence reduced the honey. Joel liked it though there was just too much black pepper for him!

Serves 2

400gm seafood udon noodles (fresh)

2-3 cloves garlic

2-3 slices of ginger

bell peppers/capsicum (red/ green/yellow )

6 prawns or frew more

4 small squids or few more

2 Tablespoons thick soya sauce ( I used kecap manis)

1 Tablespoon light soy sauce

1 Tablespoon honey ( I used less than half as I used kecap manis )

1 Tablespoon ground black pepper ( should try half first in case it gets to peppery! )

1 teaspoon cornflour with water ( to thicken sauce )

1/2 cup water

salt to taste

Prepare udon noodles by blanching in hot water and separating them. Set aside. Pound garlic and ginger to a paste. Saute the garlic and ginger with some oil. Add the soya sauces, honey, black pepper and fry for a short while, then add water to boil. Once boiling, add prawns and squids to cook. This will take only a few minutes. Stir in bell peppers and let it cook. Add noodles. At this stage, add furthur water if too dry and cook noodles. Salt to taste. Once you’re happy with the taste, add cornflour and water mixture to thicken sauce. Stir awhile and it’s ready.

I haven’t uploaded the picture yet.. still too new to this blogging thing here. But it will come along…

Note: finally the picture is up