Grilled whole fish with lemon basil and chiles (Pepes ikan) from Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia by James Oseland

  • candlenuts
  • tomatoes
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  • EYB Comments

    See recipe for other fish suggestions. Can substitute Fresno, Thai, or other long red chiles for Holland chiles; ground turmeric for fresh turmeric; unsalted macadamia nuts for candlenuts; dark brown sugar for palm sugar; Thai basil or Italian basil for lemon basil; and aluminum foil for banana leaves.

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    See recipe for other fish suggestions. Can substitute Fresno, Thai, or other long red chiles for Holland chiles; ground turmeric for fresh turmeric; unsalted macadamia nuts for candlenuts; dark brown sugar for palm sugar; Thai basil or Italian basil for lemon basil; and aluminum foil for banana leaves.

  • TrishaCP on January 04, 2015

    We changed this around quite a bit due to needing to use what was on hand, so I won't rate the recipe but I can say it is flexible and delicious in spite of our tweaks. We had no lemon basil or pandan so used kaffir lime leaves and greatly reduced the number of chiles. We also used grouper fillets rather than the whole fish since we were only cooking for two. I look forward to trying this recipe as written in the future!

  • minerva on July 17, 2013

    We served this at a dinner party and it was very impressive. I couldn't find candlenuts or pandan. I substituted macadamia for the candlenuts and left out the pandan, putting some kaffir lime leaves in the cavity instead.

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