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Arsik

Traditional dish from Indonesia

About Arsik

Indonesian Batak carp fish with spicy ingredients

Arsik is an Indonesian spicy fish dish of the Batak Toba and Mandailing people of North Sumatra, usually using the common carp.

Key Ingredients

  • table salt
  • sugar
  • water
  • onion
  • chili pepper
  • Alpinia galanga
  • Allium sativum
  • shallot
  • Aleurites moluccanus
  • bay leaf
  • ginger
  • Etlingera elatior
  • Indonesian bay leaf
  • turmeric rhizome
  • Asparagus bean
  • Cymbopogon
  • Allium schoenoprasum
  • Tilia leaf
  • goldfish
  • Garcinia atroviridis

Cuisine Type

  • Indonesian cuisine

Dietary Information

Traditional Indonesia cuisine

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Wikipedia (EN)

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