This dish is typical Balinese dish, it’s so full of flavour and real good to eat with steamed white rice.
For 4-6 people
Ingredients:
– 500gr tuna fillet
– 6 tbs vegetable oil
– 150 gr sambal matah
– Freshly ground black pepper
For the marinade:
– 5 candlenuts
– 1 tsp dried shrimp paste
– 2 sp sugar
– 4 cm fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
– 1 tsp tamarind pulp
Directions:
– To make the marinade, use a pestle and mortar to pound the candlenuts, shrimp paste and sugar to a fine paste.
– Add the ginger and tamarind, pound again to a paste.
– Add the tuna to the marinade and leave to soak up the flavours about 15 minutes. Remove the tuna.
– Heat the oil in a wok and fry the tuna quickly on each side until golden. Remove the fish from the wok and mix it with the sambal matah and black pepper.
– Serve with steamed white rice.
