Recipe Ingredient
- 50g shrimp paste (belacan), crumbled
- 120g fresh red chillies, seeded
- 5 bird's eye chillies
- 2 kaffir lime leaves, remove the veins
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Juice of 2-3 calamansi limes
- 1/4tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp oil
Instructions
- Heat oil in a nonstick saucepan. Add belacan and fry over low heat till fragrant.
- Put in both chillies, salt and kaffir lime leaves. Fry for about a minute, then remove from heat. Tip into a food processor and blitz until finely chopped. Dish out and add sugar and lime juice to taste.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or serve immediately as a condiment for vegetables, such as cucumber, ladies fingers, carrot, celery and cherry tomatoes.
