Method

Yellow Rice

Heat butter and oil in a frying pan.

Lightly fry minced garlic before adding in turmeric powder. Add cloves, cardamom pods, cinnamon stick and rice. Mix it well for 1 minute on medium heat.

Remove from the frying pan and put in a rice cooker with stock and coconut milk and salt. Mix well and then cover rice cooker.

Cook rice as per normal in rice cooker

Garnish with fried shallots, raisins and coriander

Red Sambal (Bumbu Merah)

In a high speed blender, puree all ingredients with water, except oil and gula melaka

In a pot, add oil and pureed ingredients.

Cook until all moisture is evaporated, chilli oil appeared and sauce becomes bright red

Set aside for use to finish various dishes

Baked Fish

Mix together the ingredients for the marinade and dilute with a little water if needed. It should be a thick paste that can stick onto the flesh of the fish.

Score the fish if using a fillet then coat the fish with the marinade on both sides.

For the aromatics, open up the banana leaf and place the items in a flat layer in the middle, leaving enough space to close the sides over the top.

Place the fish in the middle then wrap it up, using satay sticks to keep it sealed.

Place in the oven at 190C to char the leaves and fully cook the fish. This takes up to 15 minutes.

Remove from the oven, carefully open, being careful of the steam.

Garnish with the coriander and serve with yellow rice.