Manadonese Style Sweet And Spicy Sauce Fried Fish (Ikan Goreng Rica-Rica)

3 mackerel (or any fish you like)
2 tomatoes
6 tbsp oil
1 tsp palmsugar (gula jawa)
2 tbsp rice vinager
3 salam leaves
2 jeruk purut / kaffir lime leaves
1/2 tsp salt

Seasoning:

4 cm jahe (ginger)
3 shallots
3 cm laos (galangal)
3 cloves garlic
red lomboks (large chilies)

Pound or grind the ingredients for the seasoning into a paste.

Cut the tomatoes in thin slices.

Heat in a wok the oil and fry the fish brown and done.

Put the fish on a plate.

Add the bumbu (seasoning) and fry it for 3 minutes.

Then add the salam, the jeruk purut, the tomatoes, the palmsugar, the salt and the rice vinager and let it simmer slowly for 5 minutes.

Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.