Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce)
Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce)

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, udang balado (prawns with chili sauce). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce) This one is versatile and easy to make. You can adjust the spiciness by removing the seeds or adding more chili. Udang Balado (Shrimp in Spicy Chili Sauce) originated from Padang, the western part of Sumatra island in Indonesia.

Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce) is only one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook udang balado (prawns with chili sauce) using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce):
  1. Make ready 500 grams prawns, shells removed
  2. Take 2 tbsp ground chili
  3. Get 1 tsp ground garlic
  4. Take 1/2 tsp palm sugar
  5. Prepare 1 small onion, sliced
  6. Take to taste Salt
  7. Take Juice from 1/2 of lime
  8. Take 1 tbsp oil
  9. Prepare 2 tbsp chopped celery

Balado sauce is made by stir frying ground red hot chili pepper with other spices including garlic, shallot, tomato and key lime juice in coconut or palm oil. The ingredients are quite similar to sambal hot chili paste. However, unlike sambal???which is often treated as a separate. Shrimp cooked in sambal chili paste is quite common in various cooking traditions of Indonesia; from Minangkabau (Padang) to Malay, Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese and Manado.

Instructions to make Udang Balado (Prawns with Chili Sauce):
  1. Heat the oil in a pan. I used medium heat. Add sliced onion and mix from time to time until translucent.
  2. Add ground chili, ground garlic, palm sugar, and salt. Stir-fry until fragrant.
  3. Lower the heat. Add the prawns and mix. Simmer for five minutes, uncovered.
  4. Add the celery and mix well. Add lime juice. After a couple of minutes, it is done!

In Minangkabau tradition it is known as balado udang and considered as one variant of spicy balado dish. A balado dish always makes me salivate even when I have no appetite. I know it's weird, but a plate of balado is probably going to cure me from any sickness faster than a bowl of chicken soup! You can practically turn anything into a balado dish with this sauce. Some of the more popular choices include eggplants, hard boiled eggs, tempe, and dendeng (deep fried thinly sliced beef).

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