Recipe: Perfect Sambal Terong (Eggplant Chilli Sauce)
Sambal Terong (Eggplant Chilli Sauce). Put into mortar, add salt, sugar, and broth powder, and then mashed. Put the eggplant in plate, spread chilli sauce on top. Sambal Terung is a roasted eggplant dish, covered in sambal (a spicy chili-based condiment).
For terong balado, you want to use Chinese eggplants, which are more slender and have softer skin compared to regular US eggplants. The first thing to do is to remove the stems from the eggplants, then cut into bite-size wedges, and soaked in salty cold water to prevent the flesh from turning brown. To make the sambal, using mortar and pestle or blender, blend together chili pepper, bird eye chili, shallot, terasi, salt and sugar (add a little bit of water if using blender) In a pan, cook the sambal for a moment (or until the water reduced) Mix the fried eggplant with sambal, and it's ready! You can cook Sambal Terong (Eggplant Chilli Sauce) using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sambal Terong (Eggplant Chilli Sauce)
- You need 2 of eggplant (cut in long shape).
- It’s 3 of red chillies.
- You need 5 of small chillies.
- It’s 3 cloves of garlic.
- It’s 3 of onion.
- It’s Pinch of sugar.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
This is a variant of Indonesian Spicy sambal combined with fried Eggplant. Hmmmm.one of my favourite sambal ever. Easy to prepare and tastes soooooooooo good!! Terong Balado (Eggplant in Spicy Chili Sauce) originated from Padang, the western part of Sumatra island in Indonesia.
Sambal Terong (Eggplant Chilli Sauce) instructions
- Fried eggplant..
- Fried chilli, garlic, and onion. Put into mortar, add salt, sugar, and broth powder, and then mashed..
- Put the eggplant in plate, spread chilli sauce on top..
The dishes from that region are always spicy and hot. There are many variations of balado (spicy chili sauce). It can be made using hard boiled egg, eggplant, or shrimp. Add salt and sugar to taste. In Malaysian recipes, sambal is the main spice paste.
