Yellow Spicy Fish ( Ikan Rica-rica )

Yellow Spicy Fish (Ikan Rica-rica) is the speciality from Manado, North Sulawesi. It's a dish made from fish (basically you can use any kind of fish) with some ingredients. Very delicious! Here's the recipe.

Category: Seafood

Difficulty: Easy

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients
- 1/2 kg fish fillet or 1 canned of tuna
- 1 small tomato
- 2 fresh Kaffir Lime leaves (daun Jeruk Purut)
- 1 stalk of spring onion, chopped
- 1 stalk of Lemongrass (Sereh/Serai), take only the white part
- 2 fresh lemon basil leaves (optional)
- 50 ml water


Spice Paste
- 4 shallots
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 red chillies - the more the better! (But if you don't like it spicy you can substitute with paprika powder)
- 1/2 cm ginger
- 1/2 cm of fresh turmeric or 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- A pinch of salt to taste (or you can use 1/2 block beef seasoning mixture)
- A pinch of sugar

Directions
1. Blend or grind the spice paste
2. Heat the oil, and then fry the fish. Set aside.
3. Sauté the spice paste with leftover oil, together with lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, basil leaves and spring onion.
4. Then add the water, salt (or seasoning mixture) and sugar.
5. When the spices already mix well, put the fish inside. Leave it cook for 10 minutes and do not stir it too much because it would make the fish falling apart.
6. Serve with warm plain rice (nasi putih).

Tips: You can have the fish without frying it first if you want to have a low-fat dish.