Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, nethili sambal (ikan billis / anchovies). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nethili sambal is a Malaysian Dish. I tasted it in my office canteen and immediately fell in love with the hot and spicy dry fish curry. It is mostly similar to our, nethili thokku or nethili pirattal but it has its unique taste when we add the belecan paste (a paste made with shrimps - got it from shen siong.
Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nethili sambal (ikan billis / anchovies) using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies):
- Make ready Blend the paste
- Get 3 normal size onions (I love onions by the way)
- Make ready 8 garlic
- Get 4 candle nuts
- Take Shrimp paste, 1/3 of ur pinkie
- Take 1 small piece ginger
- Prepare 20 pieces dried chilli soaked in hot water for 10 mins
- Prepare Making the sambal
- Prepare 1 packet anchovies (pre-soaked for 10 mins than fry)
- Take In the same oil, add :
- Get 1 onion - sliced
- Take 10 curry leaves
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon mustard seed
- Prepare Add the blended sambal paste
- Get Sugar
- Get Salt
- Make ready For sugar and salt I do not have a measurement as I added little by little until I got the right taste
The chilli, Ikan Bilis (dried anchovies), belacan. The good news is, anchovy stocks have doubled because their predators - the type without legs - have declined sharply in numbers. I don't need much persuasion to eat sambal ikan bilis. Salty little fishies and deep-fried peanuts make a perfect.
Instructions to make Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies):
- Presoak chilli & anchovies 10 mins in advance.
- Fry the anchovies
- Blend the paste
- Use the same oil as the fried anchovies, add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and onion.
- Once the onion looks white/translucent, add the blended paste and fry the sambal paste.
- Add salt & sugar little by little as it takes awhile to fry.
- Once the sambal looks dry, add the fried anchovies.
- Let it cook until it dries up and it’s ready.
- Will add pictures on the next round :)
Ikan bilis is normally used in a similar way to dried shrimp in Malaysian cuisine. Sambal ikan Bilis or ikan bilis sambal (dried anchovies cooked in spicy paste) is synonymous with nasi lemak in Malaysia. Ikan bilis (dried anchovies) come is many sizes and grades. Needless to say, the better quality will make much better sambal. Do you want me to share the advantages of sambal anchovies You can save money you can save time very low calories Suitable to be eaten by the whole family Can eat while watching k-drama.
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