Sambal is one of the most popular spicy condiments used in Southeast-Asian-influenced cuisine. Belacan is a Malay word. It means dried shrimp paste. Sambal Belacan is dried shrimp chili paste. For Malaysian, Indonesian and Singaporean spicy food lover, sambal is one of the common spices easily found in their pantry. Due to the modern lifestyle many people opt to buy pre-packed readymade spices. However considering the side effects of food preservatives, why not spend a little effort to make our own healthy Sambal Belacan paste?
Sambal Belacan Chili Paste - Featured in Group Recipes 28th January 2012 |
The following is a recipe from Auntie Lan. Again I’m only sharing the main ingredients. Apologies for not giving detailed measurement as I didn’t manage to weigh the ingredients before she started to grind the paste. You can roughly adjust to your own liking. The following photo showed the measurement of half portion of the ingredients. To get fine texture, we grind the ingredients in two batches.
We used blender to grind the chili ingredients. It may be too much of asking to follow the traditional custom using stone mortar to pound the chili into paste. However, sambal made using stone mortar is supposed to taste much better.
If you wish to know how to use this chili paste, stay tune for my next post, coming soon! J
We used blender to grind the chili ingredients. It may be too much of asking to follow the traditional custom using stone mortar to pound the chili into paste. However, sambal made using stone mortar is supposed to taste much better.
If you wish to know how to use this chili paste, stay tune for my next post, coming soon! J
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this great recipe and step by step method!
ReplyDeletehmmm i would love to make this and keep because as you said i do find it in some Sporean recipes. but again we can only go for the ones pre packaged, that too, found rarely in stores because the raw materials are not found here.
ReplyDeletegood to see your post Yin ha.
Thoma:
DeleteMaybe you are right on the spices, especially on the shrimp paste.
Trying to be active again in food blogging. need to balance the time. :-P
hi,
ReplyDeleteMay I know what brand's blander do you use to grind chilli(your chilli paste is very fine)?
Thank you
Hi Michelle:
DeleteThe blander I used is Panasonic brand. I've been using it for years. I suppose to help you have fine paste, do chop smaller pieces for the ingredients you wish to grind, it does help alot.