Recipe: Appetizing 🇮🇩 Sambal Balado Potato Prawn 🦐 (in Chilli sauce)

Recipe: Appetizing 🇮🇩 Sambal Balado Potato Prawn 🦐 (in Chilli sauce) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

🇮🇩 Sambal Balado Potato Prawn 🦐 (in Chilli sauce). This versatile Indonesian sambal Balado is good as a condiment to many other Indonesian recipes and now you can make it without much fuss with this easy recipe. Sambal or loosely translated as chili sauce, is deeply rooted in Indonesian cuisine. Ayam pongteh (nyonya dish - salted bean chicken potato stew).

A slightly sour taste from the fresh tomato, a sweet one from sugar and a little kick of hot from red chilli and a fragrant of kaffir lime leaves.

Sambal is such a staple sauce in Indonesia, with plenty of different assortments depend on the region.

Another variety of sambals from Western Sumatra (a.k.a Minang) As I grew up with balado, this one was always on my dining table, at least every three to five times a week when I was in my homecountry.

You can cook 🇮🇩 Sambal Balado Potato Prawn 🦐 (in Chilli sauce) using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of 🇮🇩 Sambal Balado Potato Prawn 🦐 (in Chilli sauce)

1. It’s 4 of potatoes - cut into cubes 1cm size - fry until golden.

2. Prepare 30 of prawn (optional ; can be subtituted with boiled eggs/quail eggs/tofu/tempe/etc).

3. It’s of sambal :.

4. You need 10 of red chilli (level of hotness can be adjustable).

5. Prepare 4 tbs of tomato paste.

6. You need 1 of big whole onion.

7. It’s 1 of whole clove garlic.

8. Prepare 100 ml of water.

9. Prepare to taste of salt.

10. Prepare to taste of sugar.

11. You need 2 of kaffir lime leave.

12. It’s of cooking oil.

Udang balado or Sambal goreng udang is a hot and spicy shrimp dish commonly found in Indonesian cuisine.

It is made of shrimp, either peeled or unpeeled, stir-fried in hot and spicy sambal paste in small amount of cooking oil.

Sambal Udang (Prawn Sambal) is a well loved side dish that is often taken for granted.

A little goes a long way because the sauce (and not the shrimps) is actually the star of the dish.

🇮🇩 Sambal Balado Potato Prawn 🦐 (in Chilli sauce) step by step

1. Blend all the sambal ingredients until smooth, then fry in a hot oil, add kaffir lime leave, salt and sugar. cook sambal until golden red..

2. Put the prawn in the wok and stir for couple of minutes until cooked, then add the golden fry potato cubes. stir for couple of minutes and its done..

The sauce is similar to that of the sambal found in Nasi Lemak but more flavorful, fragrant, and richer in taste.

Udang balado Padang style prawns in spicy sambal or balado sauce.

Shrimp cooked in sambal chili paste is quite common in various cooking traditions of Indonesia; from Minangkabau (Padang) to Malay, Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese and Manado.

Sambal Udang (Prawn Sambal) - Every bite is bursting with the briny flavor of the prawn, complex flavor of fiery sambal, and a citrusy note of kaffir lime leaves.

Here is my sambal udang recipe, which I made when I was in Penang, Malaysia.