cooking a simple lunch at home on the weekend

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After being tired from working, today is the weekend that I have been waiting for, who doesn't like a weekend where we can all gather as a family, there are father, mother and children, that's my little family, well on this weekend my husband wants to eat simple grilled fish, stir-fried water spinach, and my homemade soy sauce and chili sauce, usually every weekend I always cook that food, but for the past few weeks I haven't had time to cook it.
However, today I will cook it again and I will also share the recipe with all of you.



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Ingredients


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1 milkfish


I coated the milkfish with salt and lime, without using any seasoning, and I just grilled it over hot coals.

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I bake it until it's completely cooked, until it's slightly brown like this.

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Next I will make a very simple soy sauce chili sauce.


sauce kecap ingredients


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Soy sauce to taste
Sweet soy sauce to taste
Lime juice
Cayenne pepper to taste
Shallots 6 cloves
1 large tomato


Cut the tomatoes into small pieces, or according to taste, the cayenne pepper and shallots.

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After I have finished cutting it, I want to move it to a bigger place so that it will be easier to mix later.

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Then I started mixing the soy sauce chili sauce, first add the salty soy sauce, then the sweet soy sauce, and lime juice, then mash it for a while using a pestle and mortar to evenly mix and crush the tomatoes a little, so that the spices can also be absorbed.

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Next I will cook stir-fried water spinach with shrimp paste.


Stir-fried Water Spinach Ingredients

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2 bunches of water spinach
200 grams of shrimp
6 cloves of shallots
1 clove of garlic
8 Red chilies
4 green chilies
1 piece of shrimp paste
1 tomato
Salt to taste


How to cook


Blend the fine spices in a blender, add a little water,

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Then saute the spices in a frying pan, after the spices have reduced, add the water spinach, don't forget to add a little salt and oyster sauce.

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Cook the water spinach until it wilts and the spices are absorbed, don't forget to add oyster sauce and a little salt.

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After the water spinach is cooked, remove it and serve it on a serving plate.


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Today's lunch


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Well that's my cooking today, a very simple cooking on a weekend but the taste is beyond question, it's really delicious, grilled fish with a distinctive charcoal aroma, plus very spicy soy sauce and chili sauce, adds to my appetite for lunch today, and one more thing, delicious stir-fried water spinach and shrimp paste really goes well with the grilled fish, right? This is my mother's grilled fish recipe, and I myself cook like this very often.Increase our family's appetite. It's really a fun weekend today,




Thank you very much for those who have taken the time to read my post this time, I hope my post is a little useful for readers, and see you in my next post.

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