STUFFED FISH ( Kugan)

STUFFED FISH.

Ingredients:

4 ikan cencaru fish cleaned

5 dried red chillies soaked
5 fresh red chillie
3 shallots chopped
2 pips garlic chopped
Little tumeric powder
3 candle nut
3 white part of the lemon grass
A small piece of shrimp paste
Little tamarind paste, mixed with little water
Little sugar
Little salt

Method:

Grind all the ingredients above.
Use little oil in a wok, and stir fry the ingredients till fragrant.

Clean and gutt the fish. Slit a line at the back of the fish.
Rub little salt all over the fish.
Using a small spoon, stuff the ingredients into the back of the fish.
Remove the access. Fill also the stomach of the fish.

Heat up a wok with the oil. When it is hot, put the fish and lower the heat.
Shallow fry until golden in colour on both sides.
Flip the fish to the other side occasionally.

This fish takes a longer time to cook through due to the thick skin.
The inside of the fish will not be cooked if high heat is used.

In Malay we call it ikan cencaru.
In English it is known as Jacket fish or Torpedo Scad.