Shark lodeh with coconut milk

Shark lodeh with coconut milk

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An Indonesian dish featuring shark meat slowly simmered in a coconut milk broth infused with ginger, galangal, chili peppers, cinnamon, and palm sugar.

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“Ikan Bakar” is a typical Indonesian dish. The fish is cooked in a spicy coconut milk, flavored with bay leaves, galangal, and cinnamon.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time30 min
  • Total1 hr
  • DifficultyMedium
  • Cooking methodnibbling
  • Gluten-free
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan

Ingredients

4 people
  • $0.49
  • $0.09
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Directions

  1. Clean the fish. Grate the coconut and extract its milk. ≈ 8 min
  2. Combine the spices, except for the bay leaf; finely chop the chili peppers, shallots, and garlic. ≈ 8 min
  3. Sauté the chopped ingredients until they are fragrant.
  4. Add the mixed spices and cook until they release their fragrance.
  5. Pour in the coconut milk and stir until it boils.
  6. Add the bay leaf, season with salt to your liking, and let it simmer.
  7. Add the fish and cook until it is done.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 500 g of shark
  • Half a coconut
  • 3 shallots
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 4 red chili peppers
  • One piece of ginger (about the size of a finger)
  • One piece of ginger
  • 2 walnut trees
  • 4 Indonesian bay leaves
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 tablespoon of palm sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of salt

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