Kapanlagi.com - Mackerel is known by the Indonesian people as one of the local fish that has a genuine savory taste. In addition to its addictive taste, it turns out that mackerel also contains many nutrients that are not inferior to salmon.
The nutritional value found in mackerel is protein, omega-3, vitamin B12, vitamin D, phosphorus, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, iodine, and selenium. As mentioned above, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has also revealed that the nutritional value of mackerel and salmon is almost similar.
So, continue consuming mackerel if you already like it. However, if you feel bored with the same preparations, check out the mackerel recipes with various creations that are compiled from various sources below.
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1. Mackerel Soup
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Here is the recipe for mackerel soup that you can try if you're bored with the usual fried preparation.
Ingredients:
- 3 mackerels (cleaned)
- 1 lime
- 1 clove of garlic (crushed)
- 1 tsp salt
Sauté seasoning ingredients:
- 1 clove of garlic (sliced)
- 3 shallots (sliced)
- 1 cm ginger (crushed)
- 1 cm galangal
- 1 stalk of lemongrass (take the white part, then crush)
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 3 bird's eye chilies (sliced)
- 3 curly chilies (sliced)
- 1 red chili (sliced)
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp sweet soy sauce
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tomato (cut into pieces)
- 1 tbsp margarine
- 30 grams of fiber cream
- 250 ml water
Instructions:
1. Rub the fish with salt, garlic, and lime juice. Mix well. Let it sit for 30 minutes for the seasoning to absorb. Then, fry it until cooked.
2. Heat the margarine, then sauté garlic, shallots, galangal, ginger, bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves, and lemongrass until fragrant.
3. Add water, bird's eye chilies, curly chilies, red chili, tomato, fiber cream, soy sauce, and sweet soy sauce. Stir evenly. Add sugar, salt, and pepper. Adjust the taste, cook until boiling.
4. Add the mackerel, cook until the spices are absorbed and the water slightly reduced, then remove.
5. The mackerel soup is ready to be served.
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2. Mackerel with Soy Sauce
The recipe for mackerel with soy sauce can also be your main choice for suhoor and iftar menus with your family. Here is the recipe for mackerel with soy sauce that you can follow.
Ingredients:
- 4 mackerel, cleaned and washed with lime to remove the fishy smell
- 1 onion, thinly sliced
- 5 shallots, thinly sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 5 red curly chilies, sliced
- 2 red bird's eye chilies, sliced
- 5 green bird's eye chilies, sliced
- 50 grams of green beans, sliced
- Salt, sugar, and pepper
- Sweet soy sauce
- Water
- Oil
Instructions:
1. Heat oil and sauté the onions until wilted and fragrant.
2. Add the chilies. Stir-fry.
3. Add the soy sauce. Stir briefly.
4. Add the mackerel. Cook until the fish is done.
5. Add water. Let it boil.
6. Add the green beans. Cook until done.
7. Add salt, sugar, and pepper. Stir until well mixed.
8. Let it sit for a while until all the seasonings are absorbed by the fish.
9. Remove from heat and serve.
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3. Mackerel Pickle Seasoning
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In addition to being fried dry as usual, mackerel can also be processed with pickle seasoning as follows.
Ingredients:
- 3 mackerel
- 6 red bird's eye chilies
- 4 green bird's eye chilies
- 2 stalks of spring onion
Ground spices:
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 6 shallots
- 1 finger-sized ginger
- 2 finger-sized turmeric
- 5 round candlenuts
- Sufficient amount of pepper
- Sufficient amount of sugar
- Sufficient amount of salt
- Sufficient amount of broth powder
Cooking instructions:
1. Clean the mackerel first, cut it twice on its body and fry until dry.
2. Sauté until fragrant and the spices are cooked, then add approximately half a cup of water, stir and add sugar, salt, and broth powder. Wait until the spices thicken slightly.
3. Once the spices have thickened, add the whole bird's eye chilies and diagonally sliced spring onion. After that, add the cooked fish and flip it over to allow the seasoning to penetrate.
4. Taste the dish beforehand and serve.
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4. Mackerel with Dabu-Dabu Chili Sauce
Here is a recipe for mackerel with dabu-dabu chili sauce that you can follow when cooking for suhoor and iftar for your family.
Fried fish ingredients:
- 3 mackerel
- Lime
- Salt
- Turmeric powder
- Coriander powder for marination
Dabu-dabu chili sauce ingredients:
- 5 red bird's eye chilies
- 1 large green chili
- 2 curly red chilies
- 3 shallots
- 1/2 red tomato
- 1 green tomato
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp mushroom broth
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 5 tbsp hot oil
Cooking instructions:
1. Clean the fish, marinate, fry until cooked, drain.
2. While frying the fish, chop the chilies, shallots, and tomatoes, mix together, add salt, mushroom broth, lime juice.
3. Pour hot oil (use the fish frying oil for more flavor) into the chili mixture. Stir until watery.
4. Pour dabu-dabu chili sauce over the cooked fish.
5. Serve with warm rice.
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5. Mackerel with Green Chili
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Here is the recipe for mackerel with green chili that you can follow when cooking sahur and iftar menus for the family.
Ingredients:
- 5 mackerel (cleaned)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp lime juice
Seasoning ingredients:
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 green tomato (cut into pieces)
- 1 stalk lemongrass (take the white part, then crush)
- 2 kaffir lime leaves (remove the bones, then tear into pieces)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 3/4 tsp salt
- Sufficient cooking oil
- 1 tbsp tamarind water
- 100 ml water
Roughly ground ingredients:
- 12 curly green chilies
- 8 large green chilies
- 12 shallots
How to make:
1. Marinate the fish with lime juice and salt evenly. Let it sit for about 15 minutes. Then, fry it until the skin is cooked.
2. Prepare a little hot oil again, put the roughly ground seasoning into it and stir until evenly distributed.
3. Add bay leaf, kaffir lime leaves, and lemongrass. Stir everything until fragrant.
4. Add tomatoes, stir again until wilted and evenly mixed.
5. Add the fried fish, add salt and sugar. Stir again and spread evenly.
6. Add water and cook everything until the seasoning is evenly mixed.
7. Finally, add tamarind water and stir again until evenly distributed.
8. Mackerel with green chili is ready to be served.
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6. Spicy Mackerel Wrapped in Basil Leaves
Here is a recipe for spicy mackerel wrapped in basil leaves that you can follow when cooking for suhoor and iftar for your family.
Ingredients:
- 500 gr fresh mackerel, cleaned
- 1 tbsp tamarind, soaked in water, squeeze and discard the residue
- Sugar + salt + seasoning to taste
- Basil leaves, as desired
- Banana leaves and skewers, heat the leaves briefly over the stove to make them soft and not easily torn when wrapping
Ground spices:
- 1 piece of turmeric
- 1 piece of galangal
- 1 stalk of lemongrass
- 2 candlenuts
- 7 shallots
- 20 red chili peppers (according to taste)
- 3 large chili peppers
- 1 tsp roasted shrimp paste
Cooking instructions:
1. Prepare a container, mix the ground spices + salt + sugar + seasoning + tamarind water, stir well, taste test and adjust if necessary, then add the fish and mix well.
2. Prepare the banana leaves, place the fish and spices along with the basil leaves, wrap tightly and secure with skewers, make several packets.
3. Grill using a non-stick pan until cooked.
4. Serve.
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7. Mackerel Pickle Yellow
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Here is a recipe for mackerel pickle yellow that you can follow when cooking for suhoor and iftar for the family.
Ingredients:
- 6 mackerel, fried until dry
- 1 carrot, cut lengthwise
- 1 cucumber, cut lengthwise
- 1 stalk of spring onion, diagonally sliced
- 2 red curly chilies, diagonally sliced
- 7 red bird's eye chilies
- 2 stalks of lemongrass, crushed
- 1 slice of galangal, crushed
- 2 pieces of kaffir lime leaves
- 2 pieces of bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
Ground spices:
- 5 shallots
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 teaspoon of coriander
- 3 roasted candlenuts
- 1 roasted turmeric
- 1 slice of ginger
Instructions:
1. Sauté the ground spices with lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and bay leaves until fragrant and cooked.
2. Add 100 ml of water, add salt and sugar.
3. Add carrots and cucumbers, cook until the vegetables are tender and the broth thickens.
4. Add sliced curly chilies, whole bird's eye chilies, and sliced spring onions, mix well, turn off the stove.
5. Arrange the fried mackerel on a serving plate, then pour the cooked yellow pickle on top, serve.
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8. Spicy Sour Mackerel Fish
Here is the recipe for spicy sour mackerel fish that you can try when cooking for suhoor and iftar at home.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 kg cleaned mackerel fish. Marinate with kaffir lime water.
- Let it sit for 30 minutes, then rinse clean.
- Some green bird's eye chili.
Ground spices:
- 10 shallots
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 turmeric root
- 12 curly red chili peppers
- 5 red bird's eye chili peppers
- 2 candlenuts
- 1/2 tbsp shrimp paste
- 1 stalk of lemongrass, crushed
- 1 tbsp tamarind dissolved in water
- Salt, mushroom seasoning, and sugar to taste
- Sufficient amount of water
Cooking instructions:
1. Sauté the ground spices and lemongrass until fragrant.
2. Add tamarind water, salt, mushroom seasoning, and sufficient amount of water.
3. Wait until it boils.
4. Add the mackerel fish, then cook until done. Taste and add green chili peppers at the end.
5. Stir briefly, remove from heat and serve.
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9. Grilled Spicy Sweet Mackerel
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Here is the recipe for grilled spicy sweet mackerel that you can try when cooking for sahur and breaking the fast at home.
Ingredients:
- 4 mackerel fish
- Salt to taste
- 1 piece of lime juice
- 1 piece of dried bilimbi
- 7-9 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce
Ground spices:
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 8 cloves of shallots
- 6 bird's eye chilies
- 8 curly red chilies
- 1/2 segment of ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 roasted turmeric
- 3 roasted candlenuts
- 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar
- A pinch of ground pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon of powdered broth
- 100 ml of cooking oil for blending the ground spices
How to make:
1. Clean the fish, then rub with salt and lime juice, let it sit for 15 minutes, then rinse and drain.
2. Mix the ground spices with sweet soy sauce and bilimbi juice.
3. After that, coat the fish with the mixture of ground spices on the entire surface of the fish until evenly distributed.
4. Let it sit for 15-30 minutes to allow the flavors to penetrate.
5. Finally, grill the fish until cooked.
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10. Mackerel Balado with Basil
Here is the recipe for mackerel balado with basil that you can try when cooking for suhoor and iftar at home.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg mackerel
- 1 bunch of basil
- Lime
Seasonings:
- 7 shallots
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 4 large red chilies
- 1 piece of ginger
- Sugar, salt, and pepper
Cooking instructions:
1. Sprinkle the cleaned mackerel with salt and lime juice, let it sit for a few minutes.
2. Fry the fish until golden brown.
3. Grind the seasonings and sauté until fragrant.
4. Add the basil until wilted, then add the fried fish.
Those are some recipes for creative mackerel dishes that you can try. Hopefully, it inspires you.
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