Sambal chili sauce is a very popular sauce among Malaysian and Singaporean. The ingredients used to make the sauce might be slightly different depending on personal preference and taste. This recipe is a very simple sambal chili sauce recipe as it only needs a few basic ingredients: dried chilies, shallot, garlic, and lemongrass.
Sambal is a must-have in making nasi lemak and can be added to many foods such as noodles to boost the flavor.
Sharing of Personal Experience:
The dried chilies are not soaked with water and cooking oil is added to the ingredients during blending. With less water but more oil in chili paste, the cooking time is shortened as chili paste will become fragrant faster.
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Simple Sambal Chili Sauce | MyKitchen101en
Yield: 50 servings
Ingredients:
- 100 g shallot
- 30 g garlic
- 1 stalk lemongrass (cut into pieces)
- 150 g dried chilies (cut, rinsed, drained) (Advice: Dried chilies may irritate your skin, wear gloves when handling)
- 600 ml cooking oil
- 75 g fine sugar
- 20 g salt
- pinch Ajinomoto MSG
Directions:
1 Combine shallot, garlic and lemongrass in a blender, add in 120 ml cooking oil, and blend.
2 Add in half of the dried chilies and 120 ml cooking oil, blend again.
3 Add in the remaining dried chilies and 240 ml cooking oil, blend until smooth (stir with rubber spatula in between blending).
4 Heat the chili paste in a wok over medium heat. When heated, turn to medium low heat and continue stirring.
5 After stirring for 5 minutes, add in another 120 ml cooking oil.
6 After another 10 minutes, the chili paste starts to have fragrance.
7 After cooking for another 5 minutes, the chili paste is fragrant.
8 Turn to low heat, add in sugar, salt and MSG, mix until well blended.
9 Keep the extra chili oil separately, fill the sambal chili sauce into clean jars and keep refrigerated. (To consume, use a clean and dry spoon to take out the desired portion and return to fridge immediately.)
10 Keep refrigerated.
Simple Sambal Chili Sauce
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Ingredients
- 100 g shallot
- 30 g garlic
- 1 stalk lemongrass cut into pieces
- 150 g dried chilies cut, rinsed, drained (Advice: Dried chilies may irritate your skin, wear gloves when handling)
- 600 ml cooking oil
- 75 g fine sugar
- 20 g salt
- pinch Ajinomoto MSG
Instructions
- Combine shallot, garlic and lemongrass in a blender, add in 120 ml cooking oil, and blend. Add in half of the dried chilies and 120 ml cooking oil, blend again. Add in the remaining dried chilies and 240 ml cooking oil, blend until smooth (stir with rubber spatula in between blending).
- Heat the chili paste in a wok over medium heat. When heated, turn to medium low heat and continue stirring.
- After stirring for 5 minutes, add in another 120 ml cooking oil.
- After another 10 minutes, the chili paste starts to have fragrance.
- After cooking for another 5 minutes, the chili paste is fragrant.
- Turn to low heat, add in sugar, salt and MSG, mix until well blended.
- Keep the extra chili oil separately, fill the sambal chili sauce into clean jars and keep refrigerated.
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Can I use fresh chili instead of dried chili? tnx
Yes, but it will take longer to cook until fragrant as fresh chilli is wet, and the taste will be slightly different.
To get perfect taste n sambal aromatic n distinctive in its look, sufficient oil is needed, can drain off the oil later.
Looks nice and must be tasting v good too. But no, too much oil and it s not healthy i think
Oil can be taken out after it is done. Use the chili infused oil for cooking other dishes such as fried rice, noodle, curry…..etc
️Tks My kitchen for the tip . Will surely try
Thanks.. I am actually looking for sambal chilli without shrimp paste, dry prawn, belacan…