Sambal Petai(Stink Beans in chili gravy)

Stinky beans in chili gravy or sambal petai
is one of my family favourite food
especially when cooked with fresh dried shrimp and belacan.
Here is how my mum cook our
Pekan Chinese styled sambal belacan.

 


Ingredrient:-
5 small onions cut into smaller pieces
10 piece dried chili soak in boiling hot water to soften it
about 100g of dried shrimp
2 slice of belacan(Shrimp paste block)
300g of petai(stink bean)slice into its half
1 tea spoon of sugar
3 tablespoon of cooking oil.



method:-
add 1/4 cup of water into the blender
and blend the cut onions(leave a few to be fried with oil),
dried chili,belacan and shrimp to the desired fineness




or if you like the old traditional way,
pound it in a mortar and pestle.(no need to add water here)





Heat 3 tablespoon of cooking oil in a frying pan,
once hot add the remaining few piece of onion pieces in,
fry for a few seconds to add some aroma to the sambal
and then pour the blended ingredient into the pan.
Add a tea spoon of sugar ,heat and stir it well until it's bubbling
then add the petai in
stir to mix and add a bit of water
close the pan lid until it's steaming.
And our sambal belacan is now ready to be eaten.