DIPPING SAMBAL SAUCE

This Sambal Sauce

can be used as a dipping sauce

or used to cook spicy dishes like ayam masak merah, nasi lemak etc.

This recipe is adapted from Regina Lim's 

Regina Dipping Sambal.

The following amount is 1/2 of her recipe.

Dipping Sambal Sauce

Ingredients:

(A) 150g dried chillies, (see Loke Peng's instruction for easy preparation.)

      

(B) 50g dried shrimp, soaked, drained & blended

(C) blend together until fine: 

      250g shallots, sliced

      100g garlic, sliced

      25g serai, sliced

      25g buah keras, banged

      25g lengkuas, chopped

      1" kunyit hidup, cut

(D) 200g assam jawa squeezed with

       150g water

(E) Seasoning to taste: gula melaka

                                     salt

                                     sugar

(F) 1.5 cup cooking oil, approx

Method:

1. cut chilli lengthwise with scissors, soak in hot water

2. use chopsticks to pick up chilli, rinse again. Most of the seeds will come out

3. blend chilli finely and leave aside

4. heat up oil in a kuali, saute' (C) until fragrant

5. add finely blended dried prawns, fry until fragrant

6. add blended chilli paste and fry until red oil surfaced

7. slowly add the assam juice, keep stirring

8. add seasoning according to your liking.