Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is 8 Otah. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak estimated approx 1 hour.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Otak-otak, also known as otah, is a dish of Malay and Peranakan origins. It is a blend of raw fish, chopped onions, coconut milk, herbs and spices bound together with egg. The puree is usually wrapped in a banana leaf and grilled over an open charcoal fire or in the oven (from google).

Recipe is adapted from: Tay Tony (Baba Nyonya Recipe Sharing Group)

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Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:

1. Spice Paste
2. 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only)
3. 60 gr galangal/blue ginger
4. 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds
5. 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds
6. 150 gr shallots
7. 5 cloves garlic
8. Other ingredients
9. 150 gr fresh coconut milk
10. 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin)
11. 200 gr fish paste
12. 1 tbsp coriander powder
13. 1 tbsp curry powder
14. 1 tsp sugar
15. 1-1.5 tsp salt
16. 3 eggs
17. 4 tbsp rice flour
18. 1 tbsp corn flour
19. 3 tbsp cooking oil
20. 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely
21. Banana leaves for wrapping

Instructions to make to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

1. Soaked the dried chillies in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds. Prepare all ingredients. Finely chop the spice ingredients and put it in your food processor to make a paste.
2. This is the fish paste I use. Ready to use from supermarket.
3. Remove the meat from the bones/skin. Original recipe calls for 300 gr fish meat. But in the end I use 500 gr nett. Roughly chop. Set aside.
4. Mix the spice paste from step one with 1 tbsp of coriander seeds powder and 1 tbsp of curry powder. Add salt and sugar
5. Add fish paste and 3 eggs. Stir well until combined. After that add in rice flour and corn flour. Mix well, add coconut milk and 3 tbsp of oil.
6. Add in the chopped fish meat and lastly, add the finely chopped kaffir lime leaves
7. Wrapping time: use the clean banana leaves (wash and soaked in hot water to soften the leaves). Add 3-4 tbsp of the mixture to banana leaves, secure both sides with toothpicks
8. You also can use an oven-safe pan layered with banana leaves at the bottom. Cover with another banana leaves on top.
9. Baked in preheated oven at 200 degree celcius for about 20 minutes (top and bottom heat)
10. Ready to serve. Yummy!

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