Pheakdey’s word

AMOK

Ingredients:- 1 kg of mud fish;
- 1 ripe coconut fruit;
- 5 trunks of citronella;
- 0.5 kg of smoke fish;
- 0.5 kg of garlic;
- Bits of saffron, Amomum Galanga, Amomum Zingiber;
- 6 leaves of citrus hystrix and some peels;
- 2 ripe bell pepper fruits;
- 1 duck egg; salt, sugar, fish, sauce, MSG;
- Leaves of star fruit and banana trees

How to cook:

• Cut the fish in to small slices and take the bones out
• Slice and crush the citronella trunks and pound them together with saffron, Amomum Galanga, Amomum Zingiber, citrus hystrix leaves to make a mash mixture
• Slice the smoke spices into small bits
• Break the coconut fruit, squeeze the nut to get its milk by making the phase-one milk and phase-two milk
• Cut the ripe bell pepper into two
• Pour half of the phase-one coconut milk into a frying pan to cook until it turns a litter brown
• Then, put into the pan the spices and the mash mixture, and stir it up
• Add the phase-two milk and turn off the cooking gas after the solution becomes cooked and dry enough
• After that, add the fish, salt, fish sauce, sugar, egg, and fully mix up the ingredients
• Make package of banana leaves, lay star fruit leaves at the bottom of the package, then put enough of the cooked fish on the star fruit leaves, and then top it with a bit of citrus hystrix leaves and ripe bell pepper.
• Turn on the gas and cook the dish again
• Add 1 spoonful of the phase-one coconut milk into the fish, and leave it to cook for a short while. And the dish is done.

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