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Bandeng Isi

Stuffed Milk Fish

Ingredients

  • a little of ground red pepper
  • 1/2 can coconut milk + 1 tbsp
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 green onion
  • 1 cup bread cubed
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 4 tbsp of deep fried shallots or more
  • 4 medium milk fish
  • a dash of fresh ground nutmeg

Instructions

  • Clean the skins from the fish then wash the cleaned fish.
  • Cut off the strips/fins and take out the gill and parts of the stomach by cutting a bit part of the fish neck/face area.
  • Tenderize the fish with meat tenderizer tool thoroughly. When it's done, pull out the fish' end of fins until it cracked.
  • Broke the fish bones and pull it out from the neck/area (so it will be inside out)
  • With a tsp, get the fish meat, then pull the skin in back.
  • Heat oil, saute garlic and green onion then add in the fish.
  • Sprinkle a bit of salt and pepper to taste. Add in the rest of the ingredient but shallot.
  • When filling is cooked, turn off the stove, and mix shallot into the filling well.
  • Fill in the fish skin with the cooked filling until firm and appears exactly like it was before.
  • Either steam, fry, or oven fried the stuffed milk fish. Serve with warm rice or mashed potato and hot sauce :D

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