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Sambal telur (boiled eggs in spicy sambal)
A simple, inexpensive Malay dish: boiled eggs fried until blistered, then simmered in sweet-sour, spicy chilli sambal. A common side to nasi lemak too.
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Ingredients
Method
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- Boil the eggs for 9 minutes, cool in cold water and peel.
- Fry the eggs in plenty of oil over medium heat, turning, for 3-4 minutes until the surface is golden and slightly blistered. Remove.
- Blend the dried and fresh chilli, shallots, garlic and shrimp paste with a little water into a paste.
- Fry the paste in the 4 tbsp oil left in the pan over low heat for 10-12 minutes until dark red and the oil separates out.
- Add the onion rounds, tamarind juice, sugar, salt and water, and cook for 5 minutes until a thick, glossy sauce forms.
- Return the eggs and toss in the sambal for 2-3 minutes. Serve with rice.
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Tips
- Frying gives the egg white a springy skin that holds the sambal better.
- Make a bigger batch of sambal at once; it keeps for a week in the fridge.
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