Ikan goreng () is a hot dish consisting of deep fried fish or other forms of seafood. Ikan goreng literally means "fried fish" in Indonesian and Malay language languages.
Ikan goreng is very popular in Indonesia. Usually, the fish is Marination with mixture of spice pastes. Some recipes use kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) to coat the fish after being Frying.
Spices
Before frying, the fish is typically marinated with a mixture of various spices, and sometimes
kecap manis (sweet soy sauce). The spices mixture may vary among regions and places, but usually it consists of combination of salt,
lemon juice, ground
shallot,
garlic,
chili pepper,
coriander,
turmeric,
galangal and salt. Some recipes may employ batter or egg coating on fish prior to frying. After being fried, commonly fish might be consumed right away with
steamed rice and
sambal (chili with
shrimp paste) or
sambal kecap (slices of chili, shallot, and sweet soy sauce) as dipping sauce. The East Indonesian
Manado and
Maluku Islands ikan goreng usually uses
dabu-dabu or
colo-colo condiment.
Some recipes of ikan goreng might add additional bumbu (spice mixture) mixed with or poured on top of fried fish, such as bumbu acar kuning (yellow pickles), made of turmeric, garlic, and other spices paste with sliced cucumber, carrot, chili, and round shalots, or chopped tomato with vinegar. Another close recipes such as fish rica-rica and asam pedas.
Variants
There are many variants and recipes of
ikan goreng, differ from the recipes of marinate spices,
bumbu toppings, dipping sauces or
, to the species of fishes being fried. Almost all kind of edible fish and seafood can be made into
ikan goreng, the most popular are freshwater
gourami,
bilis (
mystacoleucus),
patin (
pangasius),
nila (
nile tilapia),
mujair (mozambique tilapia),
lele (
clarias),
gabus (
channa striata), and
ikan mas (
carp). Seafood fried fishes are
bandeng (
milkfish),
tongkol or
cakalang (
skipjack tuna),
tuna,
bawal (
pomfret),
tenggiri (
wahoo),
kuwe (
trevally),
baronang (
rabbitfish),
kerapu (
garoupa),
kakap merah (red snapper),
Ayam-Ayam (Starry triggerfish),
teri (
anchovy),
belanak (
bluespot mullet),
todak (
swordfish),
hiu or
cucut (
shark) and
pari (
stingray).
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