Fried catfish and shrimp paste chili sauce.

Sometime i miss my own cuisine. I m living in Taiwan for few years. And i used to eat Taiwanese cuisine as well, but yeah we always miss the feeling of home, the taste of our own. And when i craving for my own food, i will try to cook it myself, than just buy from any Indonesian shop around here. 
Our spices is not really different with Thailand or Philippine , we  can always find spices on the same market.
Galangal, ginger, turmeric, coriander, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and so on is the same ingredient on Indonesian, or Thailand cuisine.
 Here i will post an Indonesian recipe that i like a lot. 

 FRIED CATFISH  AND SHRIMP PASTE CHILI SAUCE.

Ingredients :

500 gram catfish 
100 gram red chili 
5 Thai bird eye chili
4 big red tomato
100 gram onion
4 cloves garlic
2 tbs shrimp paste ( Indonesian or Thai shrimp paste is fine)
Cooking oil
Palm sugar 
Pinch of salt. 
Small cucumber, red tomato,  basil leaves,& white cabbage for serving. 

For marinade :

3 cloves garlic.
1 tsp turmeric powder.
Fresh lemon juice.
1 tsp Ginger powder
1 tsp Coriander powder
2 tbs salt.

Preparation :

Cut the fish diagonally in the side, bring the marinade ingredient  all together. Put the fish and marinade at least about 1 hours. After that you can fried the fish on the hot oil until crisp and tender inside. 
Set aside. 
 Made chili sauce
Cut onion and garlic into small pieces, cut chili in a half, cut tomatoes in 8 pieces. Fried all ingredient in small amount of hot oil, saute till tender. Then put the shrimp paste till fragrant.  
Turn of the heat, put all the ingredient into food processor, or if you prefer the traditional way, grind it with mortar and pestle ( some people said the chili paste taste better) adjust salt and sugar on your taste. 

Serving :

Put cabbage , basil leaves, wedges tomatoes, and wedges into serving plate with the fried crisp fish.

Put chili paste into small bowl, serve with hot white rice.