Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade otah/singapore style otak otak. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Situated where Lee Wee Brothers used to be is another store selling awesome otah in Singapore. Malay Fish Mousse - or Otak-Otak - fresh fish fillets which are blended with light spices, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves and other aromatic herbs, into a sort of fish mousse. The otah is then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed or grilled. Otak-otak beautifully wrapped in banana leaf!

Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak is something that I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:

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

It is well loved across Asia and among the many variations of this tasty snack. Otak-otak is widely spread on both sides of the Straits of Malacca. Otak-otak is made by mixing fish paste with a mixture of spices. Muar-style otak-otak is wrapped inside attap (Nipa palm) leaves and clipped using stapler or toothpick at both ends before being grilled.

Instructions 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!

Otak-otak is made by mixing fish paste with a mixture of spices. Muar-style otak-otak is wrapped inside attap (Nipa palm) leaves and clipped using stapler or toothpick at both ends before being grilled. Seah Soh, owner of Otah Boy, shares his otah recipe. 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. My family loves my home-made otak-otak because of the fresh fish used in the fish paste.

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