Sambal Tumis Recipe (Sweet sambal recipe)

This is a sweet sambal recipe. Here’s the ingredients:

Ingredients

To blend all ingredients (A)

(A)

• 100gm dried chillies (cili kering – boil in hot water to soften and cut into small pieces for easy blend)
• 100gm red chillies
• 10gm bird eye (cili padi)
• 250gm shallot (bawang kecil)
• 1 big onion (bawang merah besar)
• 10gm ginger (halia)
• 15gm galangal (blue ginger)
• 30gm garlic (bawang putih)

• 15gm belacan (shrimp paste to be roasted)
• 3/4 cup of lard / cooking oil
• 40gm tamarind pulp (Air asam jawa)
• Water
• 50gm palm sugar (gula melaka)
• 1 tsp salt (garam)
• 100ml santan

Method

1. In a wok, dry toast belacan till aromatic
2. Pour in blended ingredients (A),
3. Add cooking oil. (i omitted cooking oil for health reason, and i substitute with santan)
4. Put in santan tamarind juice, water, palm sugar, salt. Always sieve your tamarind juice first before pouring into paste.
5. Stir for 30-40 mins
6. Leave it cool and store into fridge or freezer.