Cakalang Bumbu Manado (Manadonese Style Smoked Tuna)

Yippiiie...I got Ikan Cakalang Fufu (Smoked Tuna Fish) from Manado, North Sulawesi Indonesia. My mom told me to make a dish the same as she usually makes at home beside the chilli sauce (rica-rica). I asked her what is the specific name for this recipe..She couldn't remember. So I just called it Manadonese Seasoning Smoked Tuna Fish.

Ingredients :

500 gram Smoked Tuna Fish - Cut into chunk

1 big shallot - thinly sliced

2 green onion - thinly sliced

2 lemon grass - crushed the white part

2 kafir lemon leaves

1 cup coconut milk

white basil leaves

Put into a blender/food processor or grind it :

5-8 cloves garlic

5 -7 cloves candle nuts

2 cm ginger root

5-10 Thai Chili ( according to your preference)

salt & pepper

Direction :

1. Stir fry shallot until it fragrance.

2. Add minced/smooth seasoning, stir until the color changed.

3. Add lemon grass and also Kafir lemon leaves

4. Stir the smoked fish into the sauteed seasoning, mix it well.

5. Pour the coconut milk into the fish-mixtures, continue to cook it until the liquid reduced. Before the liquid reduced, add green onion and White Basil leaves.

6. Enjoy it with hot steam white rice.