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Sambal belacan

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Sambal belacan is pungent together with delicious. This glue is used a condiment or sauce for many Malay or Nyonya dishes including curries, vegetable stir fries or salad (kerabu).

I accept already posted 2 recipes for sambal belacan previously on this post (raw) together with this post (cooked).

Because I dear this condiment hence much I am going to repost the raw version amongst a slight alter of recipe.

To swallow every bit a condiment, sambal belacan is delicious on its ain or amongst a squeeze of calamansi lime (limau kasturi) or normal greenish lime. Another delicious agency amongst sambal belacan is mix amongst mashed ripe tomato, roughly lime juice, pinch of tabular array salt together with sugar. This sambal mixed amongst lime juice or mixed amongst tomato plant is bully eaten every bit a dip amongst mutual frigidity cucumber, pineapple pieces or other crisp vegetables.



I in 1 trial forgotten a tub of sambal belacan inwards the refrigerator it must live sitting at that topographic point for close iii months. I was surprised to honour it was all the same smelling together with looking good. I ate this together with non had whatever funny tummy.

Sambal belacan glue is really concentrate, role sparingly. This recipe hither volition terminal me for few weeks.

Sambal belacan recipe
(Amount of  chillies is upward to how spicy the chillies together with how hot yous similar the paste)

Ingredients:
100g belacan or shrimp glue (use Malaysian type belacan inwards a block similar this)
close xxx - 40g of dried chillies
close fifty - 75g fresh ruby-red chillies (medium hot)
close 10 - 12 plane eyes chillies (optional, for extra oestrus if yous like)

Method:
  1. De-seed together with take away stalks from dried chilies. Soak till softened. Cut into modest pieces.
  2. De-seed (not plane eye) together with take away stalks from fresh chillies. Cut into modest pieces.
  3. Cut the belacan into iii - four mm thick slices. Dry roast inwards a frying pan for close 10 minutes. Best create this outdoor or a potent pungent scent volition linger inwards your kitchen together with other rooms for days. Another agency to cut down the scent is spread the belacan on large while of foil together with hence twine this upward similar an envelop, prick the foil to let steam to release. Put this foil envelop on naked flaming (low flame), on a bbq or hot griddle pan together with tardily roast the belacan envelop turning every few minutes, grill this for close 10 - fifteen minutes. Leave to cool earlier opening or the scent tin live a fleck also strong. 
  4. Put all the ingredients inwards a mini blender together with blitz to a smoothen paste. 
  5. keep inwards construct clean drinking glass jounce or plastic tub. The glue volition run along for many weeks inwards the fridge.