Recipe: Appetizing Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce)

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Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce). Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce). Sambal Bawang Shallot and Garlic Sambal. Sambal or loosely translated as chili sauce, is deeply rooted in Indonesian cuisine.

Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce) Fry shallots and chili peppers paste. Season with salt, sugar, and mushroom bouillon. One of my favorite sambal and one of the easiest too. You can have Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce) using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce)

  1. Prepare 150 gr of shallots.
  2. You need 100 gr of Thai bird eye chili peppers.
  3. You need 1/2 tsp of salt or to taste.
  4. You need 1/2 tsp of sugar or to taste.
  5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of mushroom bouillon.
  6. It's 125 ml of vegetable oil.

Shallots and Thai (bird eye) chilies are the main ingredients. You can grind these to a rough paste with a food processor, or pestle and mortar if you are a traditionalist. Then fry with hot oil and season with salt, sugar, and bouillon granules. Sambal Bawang is a delicious red chili sauce.

Sambal Bawang (Indonesian Shallots Chili Sauce) step by step

  1. Heat vegetable oil over medium high heat. Fry shallots until wilted. Remove from the heat. Drain. Set aside..
  2. In the same pan, fry Thai bird eye chili peppers until wilted. Remove the heat. Drain. Set aside..
  3. Using a mortar and pestle or a chopper, grind shallots and chili peppers to a coarse paste..
  4. Reheat the vegetable oil. Fry shallots and chili peppers paste. Season with salt, sugar, and mushroom bouillon. Adjust the taste. Remove from the heat..
  5. Let it cool and store in a glass jar. It can be keep up to 1 month in the fridge (or even longer in the freezer). Return to room temperature prior serving or reheat in a microwave..
  6. Serve over warm white rice, sunny side up egg, fried chicken, or other favorite dish. Yum! 😋.

It has a savory sliced shallots and garlic base, which gives it a fragrant flavor to spice up any dish! Heat oil over medium high heat. Saute the cayenne pepper, garlic, and shallot until fragrant. Blend together all ingredients (the cooking oil too). Sambal bawang goes well will fried chicken or fried duck (basically anything fried) plus rice and some cucumber and lettuce to reduce the hotness when you feel like you'd die.