Asam Pedas always under my daily dishes routine, because it’s easy, spicy and tasty, whether eat it with rice or just dip it with your bread, it taste just good even on the next day !

Ingredients:
6 pieces of ikan tongkol
3 cups of air asam gelugor
15 of laksa leaves (daun kesum)
4 ladies finger
1 tomato (cut into 4 or 6)

Blend Items:
3 big onions
3 small/red onions
4 garlic
3 cm turmeric
3 cm ginger
12 dried chillies (boiled)
50 cents size of belacan (shrimp paste)

Method:
- Put some oil inside a pot, and pour the blended items, stir until the smells comes up and continue stirring until 5 mins to let the dry chillies well cooked.
- Pour air asam into the pot, mix and let it boil
- Once boiled 2-3 times, put the daun kesum, ikan tongkol , let it boil again few times
- Put tomatoes and ladies finger and let it simmer in a slow fire around 3 mins and put some salts based on your preferences.

Serve with hot rice and fried ikan tongkol would be nice too