Teach a man to fish: pepes ikan woku

Ingredients

• 500 g fish steak
• calamansi
• 4 sprigs of lemon basil leaves
• 1 turmeric leaves
• 7 kaffir lime leaves, 5 leaves for shredded and tear off the rest
• 1 pandan leaf, cut into 2 cm length
• 1 lemongrass, take the white part and bruised
• banana leaves for wrapper
• tooth picks
• Grind into a paste
• 8 shallots
• 10 red chilies or as desired
• 4 candlenuts, toasted
• 3 cm long turmeric, roasted and peeled
• 3 cm long ginger, peeled
• 3 tablespoons ground frozen lemongrass
• salt as desired

Preparation

• Squeeze calamansi over fish and mariante for 30 minutes.
• Rub fish with spiced paste and let it for 15 minutes.
• Place fish, spiced paste, the leaves ingredients in banana leaves, wrap them up and pin with wood tooth picks or tie wih strings.
• Steam 45 minutes or until done.

Questions

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