Chilli Paste for Mee Goreng
 
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A home made chilli paste for pasta /noodles when you crave for something spicy !
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Recipe type: Sauces and paste
Cuisine: Fusion
Serves: 1 small mason jar
Ingredients
  • 40 Dry chillies ( which is de-seeded and soaked in water for a few minutes )
  • 1 medium size onion or 1 handful of small Asian shallots
  • 3 garlic
  • ½ " piece of ginger for digestion
  • 1 small lime size tamarind soaked in water/ 1 table spoon of tamarind pulp
  • 1 handful of dry anchovies, soaked in water
  • ½ lemon ( optional )
  • A pinch of balachan ( optional )
  • Salt to taste and to preserve
  • 4 table spoon oil.
Instructions
  1. Soak the ingredients which is for soaking.
  2. Grind all the ingredients from 1- 6,along with the water in which it is soaked  to a fine paste.
  3. In a wok heat up oil and slowly add balachan and cook for few seconds. Its very important to ventilate your kitchen while frying the balachan.
  4. Add in the grinded paste and cook in low fire till the oil separates and the pungent smell of garlic and onion goes.
  5. Stir in the tamarind pulp and cook further.
  6. Add salt and stir some more.
  7. When it's completely cooled down store in a jar.
Recipe by Seemology at https://www.seemology.com/chilli-paste-for-mee-goreng/