Pepes Ikan From East Timor (Flavors Around the World Ep. 19)

fish

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: chicken

Tofu offers a plant-based option, while chicken is more affordable.

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: almond milk

💰Cheaper: evaporated milk

Almond milk reduces calories, while evaporated milk is cost-effective.

Soak red chilies in water.

Chop garlic, ginger, and onion.

Marinate the fish with lime juice.

Prepare a spice mixture by mashing soaked chilies, ginger, garlic, onion, black pepper, coriander powder, turmeric powder, and tamarind paste in a mortar and pestle.

Add Thai basil and mix it into the spice mixture.

Lay down a banana leaf and place a couple of bay leaves on it.

Add some of the spice mixture on the bottom of the banana leaf.

Place the fish on top and add more spice mixture inside the fish along with lime and bay leaves.

Wrap the fish in the banana leaves and secure with butcher's twine.

Steam the wrapped fish for 40 minutes.

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