Recipe of Ultimate Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak

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The ingredients needed to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:

1. Take Spice Paste
2. Make ready 3 stalks lemongrass (white part only)
3. Get 60 gr galangal/blue ginger
4. Get 2 pcs big red chillies, remove the seeds
5. Prepare 10 pcs dried chillies, pre-soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds
6. Make ready 150 gr shallots
7. Take 5 cloves garlic
8. Take Other ingredients
9. Prepare 150 gr fresh coconut milk
10. Make ready 500 gr batang/ikan tenggiri, only the meat (remove bones and skin)
11. Make ready 200 gr fish paste
12. Take 1 tbsp coriander powder
13. Make ready 1 tbsp curry powder
14. Get 1 tsp sugar
15. Get 1-1.5 tsp salt
16. Take 3 eggs
17. Prepare 4 tbsp rice flour
18. Get 1 tbsp corn flour
19. Take 3 tbsp cooking oil
20. Prepare 4 kaffir lime leaves, remove the centre part and chopped finely
21. Get Banana leaves for wrapping

Steps to make Homemade Otah/Singapore Style Otak Otak:

1. Soaked the dried chillies in hot water for 30 minutes, remove the seeds. Prepare all ingredients. Finely chop the spice ingredients and put it in your food processor to make a paste.
2. This is the fish paste I use. Ready to use from supermarket.
3. Remove the meat from the bones/skin. Original recipe calls for 300 gr fish meat. But in the end I use 500 gr nett. Roughly chop. Set aside.
4. Mix the spice paste from step one with 1 tbsp of coriander seeds powder and 1 tbsp of curry powder. Add salt and sugar
5. Add fish paste and 3 eggs. Stir well until combined. After that add in rice flour and corn flour. Mix well, add coconut milk and 3 tbsp of oil.
6. Add in the chopped fish meat and lastly, add the finely chopped kaffir lime leaves
7. Wrapping time: use the clean banana leaves (wash and soaked in hot water to soften the leaves). Add 3-4 tbsp of the mixture to banana leaves, secure both sides with toothpicks
8. You also can use an oven-safe pan layered with banana leaves at the bottom. Cover with another banana leaves on top.
9. Baked in preheated oven at 200 degree celcius for about 20 minutes (top and bottom heat)
10. Ready to serve. Yummy!

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Eggs, believe it or not, can be really wonderful at dealing with depression. Just make sure that you don’t toss out the egg yolk. The yolk is the most essential part of the egg in terms of helping you cheer up. Eggs, particularly the yolks, are loaded with B vitamins. B vitamins can genuinely help you elevate your mood. This is because they help improve the function of your neural transmitters, the parts of your brain that affect your mood. Consume an egg and be happy!

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As you can see, you don’t need to eat junk food or foods that are bad for you to feel better! Try some of these hints instead.