Wednesday, March 16, 2011

4th week: Our own product. Catfish Popia (1st try)

This week we have to make an experiment for our own product. Our main item for this product is catfish. Nowadays catfish is very popular among the people in the world but as far as we know there is not much product in the market using catfish. So we decided to use catfish and this is our first try making catfish popia

Before the task:
Prepare all the ingredients for the catfish popia.

The ingredients:


Catfish
Spring rolls skins
Red and green bell pepper
Potato
Onion
Fish curry powder
Turmeric powder
Chili powder
Salt and Pepper
Butter
Oil

*Mix turmeric powder, curry powder and chili powder with water to make curry paste (save turmeric powder a little bit for marinating the catfish).

During the task:

The procedures:

1.Clean the catfish and fillet the catfish.

2. Marinate the fillets with turmeric powder, salt, and pepper.

 3. In a large saucepan, heat the cooking oil for deep frying and deep fry the fillets until it is cooked.

4. Let the fillets cool down a little bit and mashed it with fork or hands.
*make sure there is no bone left in the meat*

5. For the curry. Chopped the onion, capsicums, and potato into small dices. Boil the potato in a boiling salted water until it is "Al Dente" (firm to bite)

 6. Sweat the onion with butter.

 7. Then put all the ingredients and mix until they are really incorporated.
*make sure not to over mix the filling because the fillets will be to mushy*

 8. Put the filling onto the middle of the spring rolls skins and shape them into rectangular shape
*we did variety types of shapes*

 *Chef Zaid is making triangle shape

9. In a large saucepan, heat the cooking oil for deep frying and deep fry the spring rolls until they are golden brown.

After the task:

After all the different types of shapes popia that we did, we chose the rectangular shape because the look more okay for us. Assemble the catfish popia on a plate together with chili sauce.

Recommendation:

After the task is done, we recommend that:
1. Put little flour into the marinating for the catfish. The purpose is too add crunchy texture for the catfish.
2. Make sure when mashing the fillets, remove ALL the bones because there are a few bones left in our fillet when we eat it.
3. Make sure your oil it is not too hot or your popia will burn.

Conclusion:

We did not satisfy with our first try because when using spring rolls skin and you deep fry it, the oil has been absorb in the popia and that makes it not tasty and unhealthy. We forgot to make our own dipping sauce. Next week we will make the dipping sauce for the catfish.

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