[Vietnam] How to cook Pan-fried eel in coconut and saffron sauce

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Ingredients

  • 500 g eel, boned, skin on, cut into 5 cm pieces
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) olive oil
  • 125 ml(½ cup) coconut milk
  • ½ tbsp palm sugar
  • 30 ml fish sauce
  • pinch of saffron threads
  • 1  spring onion, sliced
  • 8 pink peppercorns, crushed
Marinade
  • 1 garlic clove, diced
  • 1 lemongrass stalk, diced
  • 2 French shallots, diced
  • 3 cm piece fresh turmeric, sliced
  • pinch of salt
  • pinch of dried chili flakes

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