A Recipe of Sambal Goreng Cirebon

A Recipe of Sambal Goreng Cirebon Still continuing my housewarming party's recipe. Now it's time for a recipe of Sambal Goreng Cirebon (Cirebonese Fried Sambal). It's not really like a chili paste, a term for sambal. This sambal goreng's recipe was adpated from Nining's recipe, in which original recipe uses beef as well as innards. As I mentioned on previous posts, my husband doesn't eat red meat, so I used tempeh, tofu and shrimp. Instead of fresh red chillies, I used dried new Mexico chilies to get brighter red color. Please get right back, I still have another recipe of my housewarming party left on my next post.

Ingredients:

  • 3 tofus, cut 1x1x2 cm and fried
  • 200 g tempe, cut 1x1x2 cm and fried
  • 150 peeled and tail intact shrimp
  • 10 dried new Mexico chillies, discard the seed and soak in warm water, angle sliced
  • 6 shallots, finely sliced
  • 3 kaffir lime leaves
  • 1 Indonesian bay (salam) leaves
  • 3 cm galangal, bruised
  • 1 lemongrass, bruised
  • 150 ml water
  • 35 g coconut cream powder
  • salt sugar as desired to season
  • oil for stir frying

Grind into a paste:

  • 5 dried new Mexico chillies
  • 7 shallots
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 3 candlenuts
  • 1/2 cm ginger
  • 1/4 tsp ground turmeric

Directions:

  1. Stir fry slices of shallots until fragrant.
  2. Add a ground paste, kaffir lime leaves, salam leaves, galangal and lemongrass; Stir occasionally until all spices are cooked.
  3. Add fried tempe and tofu, shrimp, and dried chillies
  4. Add coconut cream powder and water. Cook until coconut milk dissolved and thicken.