my favourite traditional cuisine..

Evening everyone..ow,if you reading this at morning or noon,just ignore the wish.. :) anyway,how are u doing people?hopefully everything went well..for this post,i'll introduce you my favourite and our most common traditional cuisine which is 'Hinava'.literally,i should post this earlier but who cares anyway right?.. :) for those who haven't tried or freaking lost with this cuisine,well its time to get know of it and i'll try to teach you how to prepare it by yourself..Hinava is actually a marinated chopped boneless fresh fish such as mackerel..we usually marinate it with lime juice together with salt and some hot chillies but now-a-days Hinava can also be added with edible gourd and dried anchovies,like my mom&dad always done..and the taste is like super yummmmmyyyyy!!!! *drools* okey,now i'm gonna teach you (not exactly teaching :) ) how to prepare Hinava by yourself.don't worry,the method is soooo easy like even a 9 year kiddos can also prepared it and the ingredients are also easy to find..

all u have to have are: (note: the measurement is just an approximately.you can reduce/increase the amount of it based on what you taste great)

1. 200g evenly chopped fresh boneless mackerel
2. 400ml seedless lime juice
3. 5 fresh hot chillies
4. full teaspoon of salt
*5. 100g thin and evenly sliced gourd
*6. 50g small dried anchovies
(*depends if you wanna add or not)

okey,here's the idea of preparing it:
1. put the chopped mackerel and lime juice in a bowl,then mix it up until the fish turned pale (it shows that the fish is well marinate).if necessary,add more lime juice..
2. now,if the fish is marinated enough,squeeze the hot chilies (of course using spoon) into the mixing..if you don't wanna make it too spicy,reduce the chillies.
3. add salt,the sliced gourd,and anchovies..make sure to soak the sliced gourd in a salted water about 2 hours before you put into the mixing to reduce the bitterness..
4. after all the ingredients are well combined, taste it..if the taste suits you,WELL DONE!! you just prepared a bowl of Hinava by yourself..simple right? :)

well,this is a photo that i took after i marinate my Hinava last thursday..if you ever try to prepare Hinava, i'm sure yours will look a bit like this too and let your tongue tell you the taste.. :) so,if you have any question of anything about this cuisine just leave a comment below..TTFN ^.^v