Sambal Stingray (Ii)
Rabu, 22 April 2009
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Sambal stingray is stingray fly barbecued on a banana leafage together with smothered inward sambal. The spicy dish has many fans inward Singapore together with Malaysia. Good sambal stringray is charred yet juicy together with smooth. It's topped amongst sambal that's super aromatic together with moreish.
Tips for making bully sambal stingray:
1. Stale fish is disgusting. The best fish for eating is i that's even thus swimming only earlier y'all swallow it. If that's non available, together with then at to the lowest degree i that's firm, shiny, together with hasn't stopped swimming for likewise long.
2. The historic catamenia of the fish is of import too. Younger fish convey smoother, silkier meat.
How practise y'all say if the fly you're buying is young?
Look at the size. Young ones convey small, sparse fins. And minor fins are cutting triangular. If y'all come across a thick, rectangular piece, that'd survive from an sometime fish amongst huge fins.
3. The banana leafage for sambal stingray is improve frozen. Fresh ones post away easily nether the grill but afterward freezing together with thawing, the waxy leaves tolerate much higher temperatures.
4. The sambal that's spread on the stingray tin brand or interruption the dish. Use the best ingredients together with patiently frying the spices over depression heat. You convey to brand a skillful sambal earlier y'all tin brand skillful sambal stingray.
5. Grill the fish using high heat, thus that the pare is charred.
6. Don't overcook the fish, or it won't survive moist together with juicy.
7. Watch my video.
How to brand sambal stingray
Step-by-step guide
The keys to skillful sambal stingray are fresh together with immature stingray, skillful sambal, high rut together with non overcooking the fish. Banana leafage wins extra brownie points for presentation.
INGREDIENTS
Sambal (makes virtually 1 cup)
INSTRUCTIONS
INGREDIENTS
Sambal (makes virtually 1 cup)
- 150 g shallots
- 75 g garlic
- 15 g ginger
- 40 g lemongrass, tender, non-bitter work entirely
- 50 g blood-red chillies
- 15 g dried chillies – trim back stems, cutting two cm long, soak inward warm H2O till soft (about xxx minutes), squeeze dry, discard water
- 15 g belacan (fermented shrimp paste) – roast at 150°C or dry-fry over medium-low rut till dry out together with crumbly
- 20 g tamarind glue – squash amongst two tbsp hot water, drain together with discard seeds together with pulp
- ½ loving cup vegetable oil
- 30 g palm sugar, roughly chopped
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 spell stingray wing, 400-500 g – rinse, drain, cutting 2-3 slits along grain inward thicker halt
- 1/3 tsp salt
- 1 spell frozen banana leafage – thaw, rinse, trim back to lucifer baking tray
- calamansi limes, halved
- red onion, thinly sliced
- tomato or pineapple wedges
- cucumber slices
INSTRUCTIONS
- Wash, trim, peel together with roughly chop shallots, garlic, ginger, lemongrass together with blood-red chillies every bit appropriate. Grind or pound amongst dried chillies together with belachan till smooth.
- Stir-fry sambal glue amongst vegetable fossil oil over medium rut till fragrant together with color darkens, virtually xv minutes. Add palm sugar. Stir-fry till dissolved. Add tamarind H2O together with salt. Stir-fry till fossil oil separates. Taste together with conform seasoning if necessary. Remove from heat. Leave till cool.
- You should convey virtually 1 cup. Use virtually ½ loving cup for 400-500 g stingray. Remaining ½ loving cup may survive stored for a few weeks refrigerated.
- Preheat grill to 230°C (450°F). Line baking tray amongst aluminium foil. Lightly brush amongst vegetable oil.
- Place stingray on baking tray, white side up. Season lightly amongst salt, including slits. Grill till 70-80% cooked, virtually five minutes depending on thickness of fish. Spread amongst sambal, thinly. Grill till overstep of stingray feels theater when pressed chopsticks, virtually five minutes.
- Lift stingray from baking tray amongst a spatula. Place banana leafage inward tray. Flip stingray onto banana leaf. Season lightly amongst salt. Grill till 70-80% cooked, virtually seven minutes depending on thickness. Spread amongst sambal, thickly. Grill till fully cooked together with sambal is sizzling together with slightly charred, five minutes or so.
- Slide foil, leafage together with fish onto serving plate. Pull foil from underneath banana leafage together with discard.
- Garnish together with serve immediately.