About Recipe

Sambal is sauce typically made from a variety of chili peppers and secondary ingredients such as shrimp paste, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, shallot, scallion, sugar, lime juice, and rice vinegar or other vinegars. Sambal belacan is a Malay style sambal. Fresh chilis are pounded together with toasted shrimp paste (belacan) in a stone mortar to which sugar and lime juice are added. Originally, limau kasturi or calamansi lime, is used but since this is scarce outside of Southeast Asia, normal lime is used as a replacement. It is normally eaten with cucumbers or ulam (leafy herbs) in a meal of rice and other dishes and I am going to share my fried rice recipe using this delicious sambal belacan.

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