Eungkot Asam Keumamah/ Sour Tuna's fish from Aceh (Sumatra's island in indonesia) *South East Asia's Culinary
Date: Saturday, 15th September 2012 for my family's lunch time
This cuisine is really difficult to make it since you need two main materials.
First one: The Tuna's fish. it unusual tuna's fish. it really hard as wood (we usually called it wooden fish). how to make it? remove the barb fish and fish entrails completely, pouring some salt and let it dry in the sun until a few weeks. your tuna's fish will be became brown/darker color and it automatically became wooden fish
Second one: Asam Sunti. You make it from Blimbi/Cucumber tree that have been dried in the sun for almost a week. the color of Asam sunti will be dark brown. it really special seasoning from Aceh's island
The Ingredient :
- 500 gram wooden tuna's fish, make it into a small pieces by scissors
- 1 pcs of Lemon
- 3 pc of Blimbi/cucumber tree
- 5 tablespoon vegetable oil (for stir frying the seasoning)
- 5 pc of shallots, cut it very thin
- 8 pc of curry leaves
- 10 pc of Asam Sunti
- 1 teaspoon turmeric seasoning
Mashed Seasoning such as:
- 6 pc of shallots
- 3 pc of garlic
- 15 pcs of small red/green chilis
- 5 pc of big chilis (it's depend on you, if you wanna the taste more sour put more blimbi and Asam sunti, of you wanna the tast more spicy put more chilis)
How to make it:
1. coat the woodden tuna's fish with a little bit salt and lemon into one. just keep it for 15 minutes
2. pour the mashed seasoning, blimbi, asam sunti, and turmeric into one and coat it into the wooden tuna's fish
3. Stir-frying the shallot and curry's leaves until it changed become the yellow/brown-ish
4. Put the wooden's tuna;s fish and stir-frying it into well done
5. serve it when it's hot
Voila! the sour tuna's fish is ready to eat! if you have any question about this recipe, just ask me directly. i know it kinda difficult to make this one. i hope it can be useful for all you! good luck!
P.S you can buy the two main material such as tuna's wooden fish and asam sunti in Pasar Minggu, Jakarta if you doesn't want make it by yourself. thanks!
