Street ’n sour sambal

Name: Street ’n sour sambal
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 8 red chillies, deseeded and chopped; 3 cm piece fresh galangal, peeled and chopped; 4 cloves garlic; 1 tbsp palm sugar or light brown sugar; 4 shallots, chopped; 2 tbsp lime juice; 1 tsp shrimp paste; 4 kaffir lime leaves, finely chopped; 2 tbsp oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Sambals (sauces) come with everything. This is close to a sambal petis, and is good with deep-fried battered vegetables - as in tempura - and anything grilled in fact. An excellent ketchup for takeaway. If you want to sharpen it up further, stir in a dash of rice vinegar.

Ingredients

8 red chillies, deseeded and chopped
1 tsp shrimp paste
3 cm piec

Asia
Indonesia
Sauce
Pescatarian
South East Asia
Street Food
Gluten-free

Method

Pound together all the ingredients, except the oil, lime leaves and juice, to make a coarse paste - or briefly blast in a processor. Fry in a wok in the oil until things start to look caramelized. Stir in the lime leaves, lime juice and 1 tbsp of water, bubble up, then leave to cool.