Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ikan bilis sambal. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sambal Ikan Bilis is a fiery spicy sauce that is as a side dish for various Asian foods, popular in many countries including Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. There a literally hundreds of different variations of this sauce, ranging from mild, to very hot. The chilli, Ikan Bilis (dried anchovies), belacan (shrimp paste) and onions are cooked.
Ikan Bilis Sambal is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ikan Bilis Sambal is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ikan bilis sambal using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ikan Bilis Sambal:
- Take 3 table spoons of blended chilli
- Prepare 1 Onion sliced
- Make ready 1 Tomato sliced
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
- Prepare 1.5 tablespoons garlic and ginger paste
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Take Fried Anchovies
- Take 2 tablespoon crushed fried anchovies
This dish is accompanied by hot and spicy "sambal" (hot sauce), which I will talk about a bit more later, and garnished with cucumber, hard boiled eggs, fried anchovies and toasted peanuts. The most common being sambal ikan bilis, and the other being sambal tumis. (tumis means "fry" in Malay). Most chilli recipes have very similar recipes involving frying of sambal belacan with onion, shallots and garlic. The only exception is that sambal ikan bilis chilli is made with local anchovies (ikan bilis).
Steps to make Ikan Bilis Sambal:
- Fry anchovies and set aside
- Using same oil, fry onions and garlic until fragrant
- Add in garlic and ginger paste and sauté
- Add chilli paste and fry until no more chilli smell and oil separates
- Add crushed fried anchovies and mix
- Add in water and tomatoes
- Mix until fragrant and add in ikan bilis
Add ikan bilis and big onions and stir-fry well. Mix in lime juice, water and seasoning ingredients. Dish out and serve with nasi lemak. This ikan bilis sambal is best served with all the traditional fixings of nasi lemak - freshly cooked coconut rice, a fried or boiled egg, sliced cucumbers and fried peanuts and anchovies. p.s. this is what ikan bilis looks like after it's properly peeled and prepped. Grandma's Ikan Bilis Sambal for Nasi Lemak. 'Ikan Bilis sambal' is anchovy sambal.
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