Cooking Story Part 5 : Absurd Fishing and Ikan Mas Bumbu Rujak

My office mates had a year-end event, a kind of gathering, having fun, but the main event was.. Fishing! For me, fishing is the most boring and absurd activity. You have to be patient waiting for uncertain result, though you can easily buy fresh fishes in a market. Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. For you fishing lovers, I am sorry. But fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. I tend to go sleep. I never thought I spent this year-end by fishing, weirder, we were fishing in a fish pond. No wonder, there were many fishes. Those were my partly reasons why I didn�t do fishing. But finally, I had much fun, gaming with others non-fishing-lovers. Luckily, I got many of fresh goldfishes after that.

I intended to put those fishes in a fridge but a friend of mine suggested me to cook soon. It won�t taste good if i postpone cook it though I put it in a fridge. But those fishes were too many, i was soo tired and... missed my mom�s cook. My mom used to cook fishes in rujak seasoning. I ll explain about rujak. Rujak is a kind of javanese fruit salad with sweet hot sauce made from brown sugar and chili. So, i decided to cook those goldfishes or ikan mas (in bahasa) in rujak seasoning (bumbu rujak). Gotcha!

To prepare:
- 6 medium size goldfishes
- 250 cc of corn oil, why corn oil? It healthier than coconut oil or other frying oil.
- 400 cc of hot water
- 3 tea spoons of corriander
- 4 cloves of garlic, pound them.
- 7 cloves of garlic, mincethem
- 2 tomatoes, mince them.
- 10 tea spoons of salt
- 1 big cloves of onion, mince them
- 7 jalapeno chilis, mince them
- 4 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 4 teaspoons of javanese brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons of tapoika flour and 2 tablespoons of water, mix both.

How to cook:
1. 1st season: Crush the corriander, 4 cloves of garlic, and 6 teaspoons of salt, then pour 50 cc of water to it.
2. Pour the season 1 to the goldfishes and submerge it for 15 minutes.
3. Fry the seasoned goldfishes.
4. 2nd season: Saute the minced garlic, minced onion, minced jalapeno chilis, 4 teaspoons of salt, when it smells good, add the soy sauce, tomatoes, brown sugar, 350 cc of water and tapioca flour, mix them. Keep on mixing until it boiling.
5. When the 2nd season is boiled enough, add the fried goldfishes. Mix them and....
6. Goldfishes in rujak seasoning is ready to serve. Tadaaa!! Here the pics: