Simple Recipe - Assam Pedas Fish

Whenever hubby bought Mackerel, also known as Indian Mackerel, Assam Pedas will comes into mind. With pineapple will make it appetizing either to go with rice or vermicelli.

Important to have daun kesom. In English names for the herb include Vietnamese mint, Vietnamese cilantro, Cambodian mint, hot mint, laksa leaf, and praew leaf. Its Vietnamese name is rau răm.

Besides daun kesom or laksa leaf, torch ginger bud is a must to make the Asam Pedas aromatic.

Ingredients
8 Indian Mackerel
10 tblsp Blend Chilies Paste*
125gm Tamarind Paste
2 stalk Laksa Leaf
1 Torch Ginger Bud 
3 teasp Sugar
1 teasp Salt

Method
Blend Chilies Paste
A medium bowl of Dried Chilies, cut,wash, then soaked with hot water.
8 small onion
5 cloves garlic
1/2" tumeric
2 lemmon grass, cut the white part
1" shrimp paste
Blend all the above

Heat up a pot
125 gm of tamarind paste, wash and squeeze out about 3.5 medium bowl tamarind juice
Add in 10 tablespoon of blended chilies paste,laksa leaf, torch ginger bud, sugar and salt
Boil a while, add in pineapple and lastly fish

Note: You can substitute fish with prawn.