Belut Cabai hijau - fried eel in green chile sauce

fried eel in green chile sauce

ingredients:

500g eel

2 tsp salt

1 tsp lemon juice

2 salam leaves

4 jeruk puru leaves

1 lemongrass stalk

4 green tomatoes

1/2 tsp palm sugar

200 ml water

1 tbsp asemwater

oil

 

bumbu:

2 cm laos

7 shallots

13 green chilies

5 green rawits

 

Cut the eel into pieces of 5 cm and marinate it with lemon juice and 1 1/2 tsp of salt for 20 minutes. Heat in a pan the oil and fry the eel and remove the skin.

Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu to a coarse paste. Heat in a pan 3 tbsp oil and fry the paste with the salam, the jeruk purut and lemongrass for 5 minutes. Cut the tomatoes into small wedges and add them and cook for 2 minutes. Add the eel, 1/2 teaspoon salt, palm sugar and stir well. Then add water and cook until the sauce has thickened. Mix in the asemwater and serve.