Homemade Sambal
Homemade Sambal

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, homemade sambal. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Homemade Sambal is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Homemade Sambal is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

The word "sambal" is an Indonesian word referring to a sauce made primarily with chili peppers. "Oelek" (or olek or ulek) refers to a mortar and pestle. Hence, Sambal Oelek is Indonesian for a chili sauce ground with a mortar and pestle. Sambal oelek is more of a base recipe compared to sriracha.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade sambal using 6 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Sambal:
  1. Get Belachan (shrimp paste)
  2. Prepare 4 chilli (seeds removed)
  3. Make ready 1 bird-eye Chili
  4. Take 2 Calamansi or Lime
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp sugar
  6. Prepare Tamarind juice (optional)

This simplicity makes making your own homemade sambal oelek very easy! And it's very versatile in the kitchen, working just as well as the base for a sauce or dip or as a fiery heat source for soups or stews. It calls for red chilies, but that, of course, can mean a lot of things on the pepper scale. Sambal oelek, or Indonesian chile paste, is a spicy condiment made simply as can be with fresh chile peppers, lime juice, and salt.

Steps to make Homemade Sambal:
  1. Roast the belachan over low heat till fragrant.
  2. Pound or blend the chilli into a paste with chunky bits. Add lime and sugar. Add tamarind juice if you prefer it to be more sour. Freeze it. Use when needed.

And it's going to come in inordinately handy. Place serrano peppers, sugar, salt, shrimp paste, tomato, onion, garlic, and lime juice into a blender, and blend until smooth. Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. A popular condiment in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, sambal is a sauce made from chilies, spices, herbs, and aromatics. It has a complex flavor that is all at once earthy, spicy, and hot.

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