Welp, it’s been almost three years since I last have an entry on cooking, I guess it’s not better time than now to put in one of my favorite dishes mom used to cook when I was a boy – Nyonya seafood curry with salted fish bone. This really came about because I managed to get some really big whole salted fish from the Filipino market in Kota Kinabalu.
ingredients for seafood curry pot
As the name of the dish suggests, this is a classic Penang style Nyonya dish. Unlike normal curry dish, the presence of salted fish bone gives it a better taste character that’s much better than salt ever would. It is also a dish that has pretty much everything in it – vegetable, seafood, santan, and with steamed rice, makes a whole meal.
blending onion, ginger, garlic
Anyway, here’s the ingredient list of the version mom makes:
- 1 KG prawns and/or other seafood (mussels for example)
- 2-3 pieces of salted fish bone (kurau fish preferred)
- 1 clove garlic
- 1-2 onion
- 1 inch ginger
- 1/2 dozen cili padi
- spring onion
- curry paste (best if you can get them from morning market)
- 1 tomato, 1/2 dozen lady’s fingers, 1 brinjal
- 2 packets of coconut milk
- 3-4 spoon cooking oil
“tumis” chili paste with oil, and then add seafood
Cooking instructions:
- clean and soak salted fish bone for 10-15 mins
- grind up onion, ginger, garlic, and cili padi to a paste
- heat up oil and fry the paste for a minute
- add curry paste to the mix, stir for another minute
- add salted fish, seafood and stir until slightly fragrant, perhaps a minute or so
- add vegetables, stir for another minute
- add santan, bring to boil for a couple minutes
- cut up spring onion and add to the mix (for looks only lah)
Remember to serve this with a nice plate of steamed rice, low carb diet be damned.
viola, it’s all done, seafood curry with salted fish bone
I promise to not let another 3 years passed before putting up another recipe on this blog, and this is in fact, the 100th. You can find more of my simple recipes here.
i’m in lust with this seafood temptation – nyonya curries are my favourite, with the freshness of the spice mix! 😀 btw, got 100 recipes can turn into cookbook already 🙂
Sean: hahaha yes pls publish for me thanks.
I vote this #1 blog post of the year 2019 #nyonya
kekeke: terima kasih bang.
my naughty ex girlfriend always calls me bang in the he bedroom. I have spoken.
PEN15: give some respect to Ah Seng also!
lol…. reminds me when you met Ah Siew in Cheras a few years back #bhoomz
kekeke: eh who is Ah Siew?
Wowwww!!! That looks good…and cooking it in a claypot will surely bring it up to a whole new level!
suituapui: yessss, that’s why I use it 😀
Send over some please, hahah!
This dish is evil, make me tambah nasi!
Choi Yen: haha eat more eat more!
Looks rather impressive. The boy not only eats but cooks too 😉
Monica: *bow*
When do you put the salted fish bone in the Claypot? Am I missing that? Together with the seafood?
Joyce: oh yesss, missed that out, you put it together with seafood, correct. I’ll update the post too.
you fry it abit to release the flavour first
PEN15: ahh yes i did.