ACEHNESE GRILLED BAWAL (pomfret)

Pomfret (ikan bawal Ind.) ? Surely you already know. Pomfret is a kind of tropical ocean fish of open seas ( latin : Stromateoides argenteus), it has flat-bodied fish, rhomboid-shaped, smooth scaling and tasty to eat. One way to cook pomfret is one recipe for bawal grilled from Aceh. You can try to cook it yourself. Here is the recipe :

INGREDIENTS:
• 1 pomfret, medium size
• 2 cloves garlic, ground finely
• sweet kechup, to taste
• 50 grams butter
• banana leaves

KECHUP CHILIES SAUCE:
• 6 chilies (according to your taste)
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• kechup, to taste

METHOD :
1. Clean the pomfret, left whole. make 3 or 4 incision at the fish body.
, then smear with the ground garlic, let it up to about 15 minutes.
2. After about 15 minutes, wrap the fish in banana leaves that have been prepared, smear with butter and grilled until done.
3. After cooked, basting grilled fish with butter to taste.
4. Now, Acehnese grilled pomfret ready to served.

Making kechup chilies sauce:
Grind chilies finely, then mix the lime juice and kechup to taste, then stir thoroughly. Kechup and chilis sauce ready to serve with grilled pomfret fish.

Happy cooking, And thank you very much.