Simple Javanese Food : Mangut Iwak Pe Asap

Today, I'm so alone. Not that I'm feeling alone but now really alone. My family is going out of the city to my grandparents from mom's side. It's in Bumiayu, Brebes Regency, but it's nearer with Purwokerto, Banyumas regency (which was my birthcity). Well, yesterday my mom bought me two plastics of "Iwak Pe" which is in English I just searched it, it is called "Stingray fish" or whatever. I don't really know. But you know fish which is looked like a flying kite with a tail. Yes, that! I hope you got it. My mom said, a plastic of it is about Rp 15.000,00. Not much expensive actually. Knowing that a plastic consists about 5 pieces of this fish. So today's food is cost Rp.30.000,00 for a day because I'm just with my grandma (from dad's side), it will not take a lot of food. Because grandma eats a little, and I eat alot. No...I hope not. Still going to do aerobic exercise after writting this.

Ok, after I opened the plastics, I put the fish inside a plastic bowl. And my mom asked me to put some hot water inside of it. Just to wash them down. Don't put the fish too long because the exotic scent of the fish will gone. You know, this is fish which was smoked or roasted. So the scent and flavour is sooooo "schorchy" like it was burnt heavily inside the fire :D.

What I was doing is just a very simple of cooking technique. Just "oseng" and put some coconut milk and done.

What I was needed just :

4 garlics

6 onions (bawang merah not bombay)

3 rawit chillies (actually I want more but grandma can't eat spicy food)

5 red chillies

a half little finger of terasi

gula jawa 

salt

2 spoons of cooking oil

1 coconut milk (instant)

of course the fish

What I needed to do just put the oil into the pan. Wait until it's quite hot. Put the onion and garlic. Stir it a little. Put some chillies inside, and then salt, gula jawa, and terasi. Stir-stir. And then put water, coconut milk, put the fish. Wait for sometimes. and then taste a little. If the fish is tender, then off the stove. Put it in the bowl. Eat with warm rice. Yummy.....this is damn tasty food. The smell of roasted fish (schorchy scent), the "gurih" taste of coconut milk, spicy-ness of chillies, are combined into one general tag line. Simple, healthy, and yummy!!!!!!! I really love this food. My dad ever got this fish naturally by fishing in the sea. We actually roasted this by ourselves. The form was still looked like the kite. That time I ate "arem-arem" and I took the meat of this fish and eat with that. Already felt good without even cooked it again. But it tasteless without giving salt,etc.

Well I just can post the picture, even if this is not good capture. But who cares about camera when you are good in the taste.