Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak
Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, homemade otah/singapore style otak otak. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Otah-Otah (or simply known as Otah or alternative spelling as otak-otak or 乌达 in Chinese) is a Nyonya (could be Malay too) dish commonly found in countries. SUPER EASY Otah (Otak Otak) 乌达 Singapore Street Food & Nyonya Recipe. Easy & Authentic Singapore Laksa Recipe from Scratch!

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade otah/singapore style otak otak using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
  1. Make ready Spice Paste
  2. Take 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only)
  3. Take 60 gr galangal/blue ginger
  4. Make ready 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds
  5. Make ready 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds
  6. Prepare 150 gr shallots
  7. Make ready 5 cloves garlic
  8. Get Other ingredients
  9. Prepare 150 gr fresh coconut milk
  10. Get 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin)
  11. Make ready 200 gr fish paste
  12. Get 1 tbsp coriander powder
  13. Get 1 tbsp curry powder
  14. Prepare 1 tsp sugar
  15. Take 1-1.5 tsp salt
  16. Take 3 eggs
  17. Prepare 4 tbsp rice flour
  18. Make ready 1 tbsp corn flour
  19. Prepare 3 tbsp cooking oil
  20. Prepare 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely
  21. Prepare Banana leaves for wrapping

Some spell it as Otak-Otak while some spell it as Otah. Whatever it is, this dish is well-loved by many in Singapore and Malaysia. This traditional and homemade Nonya Otak-Otak is shared by home cook, Molly Leong. Otak-otak (otah-otah) is a South East Asian delight, popular in Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia, and consist of fish paste with spices wrapped & grilled in fragrant banana leaves.

Steps to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:
  1. Soaked the dried chillies in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds. Prepare all ingredients. Finely chop the spice ingredients and put it in your food processor to make a paste.
  2. This is the fish paste I use. Ready to use from supermarket.
  3. Remove the meat from the bones/skin. Original recipe calls for 300 gr fish meat. But in the end I use 500 gr nett. Roughly chop. Set aside.
  4. Mix the spice paste from step one with 1 tbsp of coriander seeds powder and 1 tbsp of curry powder. Add salt and sugar
  5. Add fish paste and 3 eggs. Stir well until combined. After that add in rice flour and corn flour. Mix well, add coconut milk and 3 tbsp of oil.
  6. Add in the chopped fish meat and lastly, add the finely chopped kaffir lime leaves
  7. Wrapping time: use the clean banana leaves (wash and soaked in hot water to soften the leaves). Add 3-4 tbsp of the mixture to banana leaves, secure both sides with toothpicks
  8. You also can use an oven-safe pan layered with banana leaves at the bottom. Cover with another banana leaves on top.
  9. Baked in preheated oven at 200 degree celcius for about 20 minutes (top and bottom heat)
  10. Ready to serve. Yummy!

Situated where Lee Wee Brothers used to be is another store selling awesome otah in Singapore. Seah Soh, owner of Otah Boy, shares his otah recipe. Otak-otak. photos. - Countries - afghanistan australia bangladesh bhutan cambodia china east timor fiji hong kong india indonesia iran japan kazakhstan kiribati kyrgyzstan laos malaysia maldives mongolia myanmar nepal new zealand north korea pakistan philippines singapore south korea sri lanka taiwan thailand tonga. Otak-otak, also known as otah, is a dish of Malay and Peranakan origins. Description In Singapore, otak-otak, a savoury snack, is typically made from Spanish mackerel, or ikan tenggiri.

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