6 Easy and Delicious Fish Curry Recipes

Kapanlagi.com - For those of you who love fish, there are many recipes that you can cook to enjoy fish without getting bored. One of them is fish curry recipe. In Indonesia, there are many variations of fish curry recipes. There are curry with savory taste, spicy curry, and sweet and sour curry.

For those of you who like fish curry recipes, here are some fish curry recipes that can be your choice. Moreover, these fish curry recipes are very easy to make and not fishy. According to brilio.net, here are 6 easy and practical fish curry recipes. Let's check it out KLovers.

1. Red Snapper Curry

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The first recipe for fish curry is snapper fish curry. Here are several ways to make the recipe for snapper fish curry:

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of snapper fish

- 1 lime

Ground spices:

- 3 curly chilies

- 7 shallots

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 1 teaspoon of coriander, roasted

- 1/2 teaspoon of pepper

- 3 candlenuts, roasted

- 1 turmeric, sliced

Additional spices:

- 1 ginger, crushed

- 1 galangal, crushed

- 3 bay leaves

- 1 turmeric leaf, tied

- 3 kaffir lime leaves

- 2 lemongrass, crushed

- 350 ml of coconut milk

- 100 ml of thick coconut milk

- 1/2 teaspoon of salt

- 10 whole red chili peppers

- 1 handful of basil leaves

How to make:

1. Marinate the snapper fish with lime juice evenly.

2. Grind the garlic, shallots, curly chilies, turmeric, candlenuts, pepper, and coriander.

3. Sauté the ground spices until fragrant and cooked. Add crushed ginger, crushed galangal, turmeric leaf, and crushed lemongrass. Add bay leaves and kaffir lime leaves. Enter whole red chili.

4.Add the head of the snapper fish, stir until the fish head changes color.

5.Pour half of the thin coconut milk and salt, reduce the heat and cover the pan.

6.Cook for 15 minutes.

7.Add the remaining thin coconut milk, cook until the fish is cooked.

8.Add thick coconut milk, stir until boiling.

9.Just before removing from the heat, add basil leaves. Serve.

2. Tuna Curry

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The second fish curry recipe is tuna curry. Here are several ways to make the tuna curry recipe:

Ingredients:

- 1 1/2 kg tuna, cut into pieces

- 1 piece of galangal, crushed

- 5 pieces of kaffir lime leaves

- 1 stalk of lemongrass, crushed

- 1 piece of turmeric leaf

- 1 tablespoon tamarind water

- 1 liter coconut milk

- Salt, sugar, and powdered broth to taste

- Some bird's eye chilies

- 3 pieces of lime

Ground spices:

- 12 shallots

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 7 curly red chilies

- 11 bird's eye chilies

- 1 teaspoon coriander

- 1/2 teaspoon pepper

- 3 candlenuts

- 1 piece of turmeric

- 1 piece of ginger

Instructions:

1. Marinate the fish with lime juice and salt. Let it sit for 10 minutes, then fry until not too dry. Set aside.

2. Sauté the ground spices and add the turmeric leaf, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves. Sauté until fragrant and cooked.

3. Pour in the coconut milk and tamarind water. Stir well. Add salt, sugar, and powdered broth. Stir occasionally to prevent the coconut milk from breaking.

4. Once it boils, taste and adjust the seasoning, then add the fish and bird's eye chilies. Cook until done and the spices are absorbed.

5. Remove from heat and serve.

3. Sour Gulai Mackerel Fish

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Want to eat fish that is similar to tuna, but with a more affordable price? You can replace it with mackerel fish. Here are several ways to make the recipe for sour gulai mackerel fish:

Ingredients:

- 5 mackerel fish, cut into 2 pieces

- 750 ml water

Ground spices:

- 8 shallots

- 2 garlic cloves

- 5 curly red chili peppers

- 1 candlenut

- 1/2 teaspoon coriander

- 1/2 turmeric

- 1 ginger

- 1/2 tomato

Additional spices:

- 1 galangal, bruised

- 2 bay leaves

- 1 turmeric leaf, cut into pieces

- 4 wuluh starfruits, cut into 2 pieces

- 1/2 bud of torch ginger flower

- 1 lemongrass, bruised

- 10 green bird's eye chili peppers

- 1 teaspoon salt

How to make:

1. Clean the fish, add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and lime juice, mix well, let it sit for 15 minutes.

2. Mix the ground spices with water, add galangal, bay leaves, lemongrass, and turmeric leaf.

3. Add the fish, wait until the water boils again, add wuluh starfruits, torch ginger flower, bird's eye chili peppers, and salt. Stir well, taste test.

4. Cook until the fish is cooked, the broth thickens slightly, and the spices are absorbed. Remove from heat, then serve.

4. Gulai Ikan Nila

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Next is the recipe for gulai ikan nila. Here are several ways to make the recipe for gulai ikan nila:

Ingredients:

- 1 kg Nila fish (cleaned, remove the insides)

- 60 ml instant coconut milk + enough water

- 200 ml instant coconut milk

- 4 tablespoons oil for sautéing the ground spices

Ground spices:

- 10 red curly chili peppers

- 8 shallots

- 6 garlic cloves

- 3 cm turmeric

- 3 cm ginger

- 3 cm galangal

- 1 tablespoon salt

Other spices:

- 2 bay leaves

- 1 turmeric leaf, tied in a knot

- 4 kaffir lime leaves

- 3 tamarind fruits

- 3 cardamom pods

- 3 cloves

- 2 lemongrass stalks, bruised

- 1 teaspoon sugar

- 1/4 teaspoon powdered broth

Instructions:

1. Sauté the ground spices together with the other spices until fragrant.

2. Add the 60 ml instant coconut milk and mix with water, let it boil.

3. Add the nila fish, reduce the heat and cover the pan, cook until the coconut milk boils again.

4. Add the 200 ml coconut milk, cook until all the ingredients are cooked and the spices are absorbed. Remove from heat, ready to serve.

5. Gulai Ikan Patin

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Not only tilapia, a freshwater fish can also be made into gulai, but also patin fish, KLovers. Here are some ways to make the recipe for gulai ikan patin:

Ingredients:

- 2 patin fish

- 250 grams of long beans

- 2 bay leaves

- 3 kaffir lime leaves

- 1 stalk of lemongrass, crushed

- 10 bird's eye chili peppers

- Crushed galangal

- Salt, sugar, and powdered broth as needed

- 500 ml thick coconut milk

- 1 tomato, cut into 2

Spice paste ingredients:

- 6 cloves of garlic

- 4 shallots

- ?2 candlenuts

- 2 large red chili peppers

- ?1 handful of bird's eye chili peppers

- 1 teaspoon coriander

- 1 cm ginger

- 3 cm turmeric

How to make:

1. Cut the patin fish according to taste, fry. Set aside.

2. Sauté the spice paste, bay leaves, lime leaves, galangal, lemongrass until fragrant.

3. Add long beans, chili peppers, and coconut milk. Add sugar, salt, powdered broth. Boil/wait for the beans to soften, adjust the taste.

4. Add the patin fish and tomato. Let it sit for a while, turn off the stove.

6. Mackerel Curry

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This savory and sweet fish is not only delicious when made into pempek, but it can also tantalize your taste buds as mackerel curry. Here are several ways to make the recipe for mackerel curry:

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of mackerel fish

- 5 tomatoes

- Red/green bird's eye chili peppers, to taste

- 100 ml coconut milk

- Sufficient amount of water

- Salt, sugar, and seasoning, to taste

- 2 kaffir lime leaves

- 1 bay leaf

- 1 stalk of lemongrass, take the white part and crush

- 3 cm galangal, crush

Ground spices:

- 8 shallots

- 4 cloves of garlic

- 3 cm ginger

- 2 candlenuts

- 1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste

- 5 cm turmeric

- Sufficient amount of chili peppers

Instructions:

1. Heat a pan, add sufficient oil. Sauté the ground spices, add galangal, lemongrass, bay leaf, and kaffir lime leaves, and sauté until fragrant.

2. Add a little water, put in the fish and stir gently. Add coconut milk and chili peppers, stir gently and add more water as needed.

3. Cook until boiling, then add salt, sugar, and seasoning to taste. Stir gently, add tomatoes. Cover and cook until the fish is cooked and the sauce has slightly thickened.

4. Remove from heat and serve.

Those are 6 easy-to-make mackerel curries that won't have a fishy smell. Some of the mackerel curry recipes above might become favorite dishes at your home. Enjoy.

(kpl/dhm)