Learn how to make Sambal Goreng Petai (fried sambal with bitter bean) to spice up family's iftar dinner meal with this step-by-step recipe!
Kitchenesia.com - “Sambal is boring”, says no one ever. The Indonesia-native condiment has more than 300 variants, and employing a plethora of herbs and spices. Each sambal has particular flavour of their own, but all at once spicy, hot, earthy, and sometimes umami.
There’s a high chance that you keep eating the same sambal, which for us is really unfortunate. If you’re looking for new taste in sambal, try below recipe. It combines the classic sambal goreng with bitter bean.
Follow Sambal Goreng Petai (fried sambal with bitter bean) recipe below to spice up your every day’s meal.
Prep time: 15 minutes
Yields: 1 bowl
1 tomato, chopped
2 tsp shrimp paste, burn briefly
1 tsp salt
2 tsp palm sugar
2 bitter bean pods, halved
3 tbsp cooking oil
10 cayenne peppers
5 red bird eye chilis
4 shallots
4 garlic cloves
1. Heat oil in pan over medium heat. When simmers, add cayenne peppers and bird eye chilies. Stir until half-wilted
2. Add tomatoes while stirring. If both chillies and tomato has wilted, remove from pan.
3. Place fried chillies on pestle. Add garlic and shallots on the sampe pestle and grind using mortar. When they are half-smooth, add sugar, shrimp paste, and salt. Grind well until making a fine, smooth paste.
4. Add fried tomato to the pestle, grind briefly until blended. Add bitter bean and combine with sambal using spoon.
5. Serve Sambal Goreng Petai (fried sambal with bitter bean) as a condiment in iftar dinner meal.
