Posted by Bel.C
Malay dishes are very famous for hot and spicy food, most of the food is cooked with Sambal. Sambal is a Malay word, which refers to a condiment of grounded red hot chillies. Other ingredients are added based on preferences such as garlic, shallots, lime juice, ginger, galangal, etc for a different taste. Knowing how to prepare the Sambal will help you to master various of Malay or Chinese food.
Sambal Okra or so called Sambal Lady’s Finger is one of the popular vegetable dishes with sambal that goes extremely well with steamed white rice.
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Posted by Bel.C
Most of the time we like our fruits to be fully ripened and sweet in taste. However one of the ways I like the fresh, young and soury fruits is when they are mixed in the thick soy sauce made up with shrimp paste, cili padi (hot bird’s eye chillies) and topped with grounded peanuts. Rojak. Yes, you are right! The Malaysian style of fruit salad or Rojak Buah gives you the whole new flavor combination of salty, sweet, sour and not forgotten the hot and spicy.
I could still remember everytime when me and my sister went to Pasar Malam (Night Market), we loved to buy a lot of snacks and Rojak is one of them that could not be left out. Both of us could never have enough of it and would always finish it in minutes.
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What’s the best thing to do if you have too much leftover rice? Fried Rice of course. In Indonesia or Malay, it is called “Nasi Goreng”. Nasi means Rice; Goreng means Fried. One main thing to remember when preparing fried rice is best to use cooked rice that has been cooled down ahead of time or refrigerated overnight, so the fried rice will not be soggy. You can combine a variety of ingredients of meat and vegetable to make the fried rice. This time I was cooking the Indonesian Fried Rice that includes chicken and shrimp with red chili that gives you the extra spicy kick on it as well as a fried egg on the side.
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