Most Malaysian who love spicy food & seafood will enjoy this cuisine- "Sambal Udang". "Sambal Udang" means chili sauces + prawns = perfect combination. It goes really well with rice. My sister can eat two big bowls of rice when I cook this. This is a "short-cut" method by using the spicy seafood sauces that I have bought from the mushroom farm in Tanjung Sepat. You can buy any ready made Sambal sauces for seafood from the store. And I will also attached a simple Sambal sauces recipes that you can make from scratch. Ta-da.......................looks delicious?
The secret sauces:
Super Fast Stir Fried Sambal Prawn for 2 servings:
Ingredients:
350g prawns (washed, cleaned, peeled)
2 cloves of garlic sliced
1 big red onion sliced
2 tbsp of sambal seafood sauces
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
1/4 cup of water
Decorations: sliced chili (optional)
Super Fast Method:
1) Heat oil to brown garlic with the sambal seafood sauces, let it simmer for a while about 1 min & you can smell the spiciness in the air.
2)In the prawns & sliced red onion, stir fry for 1 mins, then add in 1/4 cup of water let it simmer with high heat for 2 mins with lid on. Then, sauteed it for a while until the water is fairly dry. Prawn cooked very quickly.
Alternatively, you can make your own sauces from scratch.
Homemade sambal seafood sauces (Malaysia style) recipes:
Blend the below in blender with some water (minimal)
20ea of dried chili (cut the dried chili by using a scissor & pre-soak a while will help it to blend nicer)
10ea shallots (cleaned)
2 cloves garlic
1 knob of ginger
3 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 tsp of sugar
Pinch of salt
Method:
1)Heat the oil, pour in the blended chili paste in the oil let it simmer for a while with medium small heat. You can see the chili paste being heated in the oil. Keep stirring so that it will not burn. Then, add the sugar in with a pinch of salt.
2) You can add the prawn, red onion & water to let it simmer for a while to become fairly dry.
Tips: You can also add 20ea of petai in this recipes. It taste great too.
p/s Bake some little cupcakes to celebrate this Christmas. My kid enjoy decorating it.
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