ikan mas arsik :)

 Ikan Mas Arsik
Stuffed Gold Fish in a Slight Sourly Sauce

Summery :

Goldfish Arsik is one of typical food of society of batak toba. Fish is usually presented peculiarly in event of custom party in order to giving upa-upa to woman who is married with her husband  from hula-hula.

This congeniality is matter which in philosophy in]area of batak toba. This Goldfish Arsik, have to in a state of intact at the time of submitting upa-upa.

 But, in common facet, Goldfish Arsik have been made and cooked in everyday life.

 History, fish used not goldfish. But circular and longer fish is so called fish ' IHAN'.

 This Ihan live [in] river residing in far in forest. so that difficult to get it.

 This Goldfish Arsik very taken a pan to all mother in land batak.

Ingredients :                                                        
1 gold fish (900 gr)
10 lemongrass, crushed
5 jeruk purut leaves
10 chives
250 ml asemwater
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp lime juice
2 ginger buds
3 pieces asam gelugur
250 gr bambu shoots

Attenuating :
flavour :

Shallot

andaliman (flavour batak, it is like fresh merica)
11 red papper
1 tbsp szechuan pepper
8 candlenuts
4 cm ginger
4 cm curcuma
5 cm galangal
11 shallots
4 cloves garlic
2 tsp salt

How to cook :
Clean the fish and rub it in with the salt and the lime juice and let it marinate for 10 minutes. Pound or grind the ingredients for the fine bumbu into a paste. Slice the ginger buds into 8 pieces and slice the bambu shoots into thin parts. Slice the jeruk purut very thin. Stuff the fish with the sereh, the ginger buds and a part of the bumbu. Rub the fish in with the remaining bumbu. Put the fish in a pan together with the chives, the jeruk purut and the asemwater. Cook the fish slowly until done and the sauce has thickened. Add the bambu shoots during the last 5 minutes.