Sambal Belacan Nyonya Melaka

Get your Melaka Nyonya style Sambal Belacan recipe from here. :) There is a slight twist between Sambal Belacan from Penang and Melaka. Google it and you will see the difference. And our Belacan taste different too.

So, here’s my Sambal Belacan Nyonya Melaka version recipe. You might be able to win your MIL’s heart with it. :P

Ingredients
4-5 Fresh Red Chili
4 Bird Eye Chili (to make you explode. hehe)
2 Shallots
2 Inch Belacan (Shrimp Paste)
Salt

Method
1. Fry the Belacan till dry (no oil needed, ok)
2. Cut the chili to 3-4 parts to make it easier to pound.
3. Place all the ingredients into a pounder (lesung) and pound till it all mashed up. Don’t use blender ok. The taste will be totally out and the sambal belacan will be watery too.

How to eat it
If you cook Pong Teh, then take a small pinch of the Sambal Belacan with every spoon of rice that has been mixed with the Pong Teh gravy or take a small spoon of the Sambal Belacan and mix well with your rice. Mmmm…delicious. (writing this makes me salivate!)

Or eat it my way…squeeze some lime juice (limau sambal or limau kasturi) on the Sambal Belacan. Take a tablespoon of it, mix well with your hot steaming rice. Then eat with fried salted fish or fried fish. Yum!