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- From: reid@decwrl (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Indonesian fried chili-pepper relish
- Message-ID: <5859@decwrl.DEC.COM>
- Date: 10 Oct 86 07:33:33 GMT
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- Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SAMBAL-BAJAK A "8 Mar 86" 1986
- .RZ "SAMBAL BAJAK" "Fried chili-pepper sambal relish"
- Indonesia is not known to have nuclear weapon capability, but visitors to
- Djakarta often suspect that if enough Sambal Bajak is put into an artillery
- shell it will have the same general effect. Indonesian hosts normally warn
- Westerners that this is ``an acquired taste.''
- .IH "makes 1 cup"
- .IG "\(12 lb" "fresh red hot chilies," "200 g"
- chopped coarsely
- .IG "1" "large onion"
- .IG "6" "cloves garlic"
- .IG "8" "kemiri nuts,"
- chopped fine
- .IG "3 Tbsp" "peanut oil" "50 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "laos powder" "3 ml"
- .IG "1 Tbsp" "trasi" "15 ml"
- (dried shrimp paste)
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "5 Tbsp" "tamarind liquid" "75 ml"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "sugar" "20 g"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Chop the chilies, onion, and garlic in a food processor.
- .SK 2
- In a small frypan, saut\z\(aae this mixture in oil until well cooked.
- Do not brown.
- .SK 3
- Add the kemiri nuts, laos, trasi, and salt. Stir and mash until it is well
- blended.
- .SK 4
- Add the tamarind liquid and sugar; simmer until the oil separates out.
- .SK 5
- Cool, and serve cold.
- .NX
- Laos is a form of ginger. Other names for it are galangal, Java root,
- galingale, or lengkuas. If you can't find it, use
- .AB "1 tsp" "5 ml"
- of powdered ginger mixed with
- .AB "\(14 tsp" "1 ml"
- of powdered cinnamon.
- Trasi is shrimp paste; it can be left out. Tamarind
- liquid is made by soaking dried tamarind pulp in hot water for 1 hour and
- then straining. To make
- .AB "5 Tbsp" "75 ml"
- of tamarind liquid, use
- .AB "\(14 cup" "60 ml"
- of pulp and
- .AB "\(12 cup" "100 ml"
- of hot water.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy if you have the ingredients.
- .I Time:
- 30 minutes.
- .I Precision:
- approximate measurement OK.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
- reid@decwrl.DEC.COM -or- decwrl!reid
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