Name: Salted yellow bean relish (Sambal Tauco)
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 6 shallots or 1 onion; 4 green chillis or 1 tsp chilli powder; 2 tbs vegetable oil; ½ cup tamarind water; 1 tsp ground ginger or a piece of root ginger, about 1 cm (½”) long; 5 cloves garlic; 1 6½ can of salted yellow beans; 1 cup water; 1 tsp brown sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

‘Tauco’ is salted yellow beans; you can buy them in Britain at Chinese grocery shops, in cans. Sambal Tauco is another hot relish that keeps for a long time. You can make it less hot by using less chilli.

Ingredients

1 6½ can of salted yellow beans
5 cloves garlic
1 tsp

Method

Crush the garlic and the yellow beans together, either by pounding them in a mortar or by means of a liquidizer. Seed the green chillis and slice them finely. Slice the shallots or onion. If you are using root ginger, peel and chop it into very small sticks. Heat the oil and sauté the shallots for 1 minute. Add the chillis and ginger and sauté for another minute; then put in the tauco and garli

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