Rabo'ruan｜East Kalimantan

Part 28/38 in a series exploring one dish from each province of Indonesia.

The star of this dish is supposed to be snakehead fish, so if that’s available to you then use that. If not, substitute any firm, flaky white fish. I’ve used haddock here.

Adapted from here.

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Ingredients

Main stuff

• 1 kg flaky white fish (snakehead, haddock, halibut, tilapia)
• 1 tsp palm sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp ground coriander
• 150 ml coconut milk

Spices to blend

• 10 Indonesian onions (3 shallots)
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 4 red cayenne chillies
• 6 big red chillies

Prep

Blend up the blended bits.

Cooking

Steam the fish. Separate the meat. Shred.

Mix the fish, blended spices, salt, brown sugar, coriander, and coconut milk.

Dry fry over a low heat, stirring often, until dry.