Cooking Steamed Fish (Foods)


Steamed fish is one of Indonesian foods. Some time the fish is cooked by wrapping the fish with banana leaf. Here is the recipe:



  • 1 fresh fish (750 gram)
  • 1 teaspoon of lime water
  • 1,5 gram of salt
  • 10 cm turmeric
  • 3 cm ginger plant / alpine galanga
  • 7 onions
  • 3 garlic
  • 2 red pepper chili
  • 25 gram basil leaves
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 banana leaf to wrap
Pour the fish with lime water and add a half of teaspoon of salt and wait for about 30 minutes. Slice turmeric, ginger plant, onions, and garlic and mix them with 1 teaspoon of salt, and smear it to the fish. Wrap it with banana leaf. And then steam it.