Sambal Timun (Spicy Pork Cucumber Salad)
Rabu, 25 November 2020
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I similar Mrs Wee Kim's sambal timun recipe inwards "Cooking for the President". The magic of the spicy pork cucumber salad is inwards the dressing.
Opposites attract, hence bland, tasteless cucumber (timun) in addition to hot, spicy sambal are the proverbial gibe made inwards Nyonya heaven. And when the matchmaker is Mrs Wee, you lot tin live on assured it's a especially blissful match.
Besides the green ruby-red chillies in addition to belachan, the ex-First Lady likewise uses pounded kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced bungah kantan (torch ginger bud) in addition to julienned calamansi lime peel. That's a lot of intense flavours already but there's more.
There's a special behave on inwards Mrs Wee's sambal timun: dried prawns which are dry-fried in addition to hence ground.
The toasting gives the prawns a wonderful fragrance non institute inwards other recipes that don't accept this step. It likewise dries upwards the prawns which hence soak upwards the calamansi lime juice, in addition to the flavours from belachan, chillies, lime leaves, lime tegument in addition to bungah kantan.
The dressing is looking skillful already but it's non done yet. Sliced shallots in addition to blanched Chinese celery are tossed into the spicy paste, along amongst roughly tabular array salt in addition to sugar.
Mix, mix, mix . . .
OK, at nowadays it's done. There're 12 ingredients inwards the Nyonya dressing, in addition to each 1 plays a crucial role. I enjoin ya, it's 1 awesome sambal that makes timun in addition to pork belly gustation divine.
SAMBAL TIMUN (SPICY PORK
CUCUMBER SALAD)
Source: Adapted from Cooking for the President
(Recipe for 8 persons)
300 g pork belly, cutting two cm thick
500 g cucumber
xxx g Chinese celery, cutting three cm long, blanch inwards warm H2O in addition to drain
fifty g shallots, peel, rinse in addition to spell thinly
45 g dried prawns, rinse, dry-fry or toast till semi-dry in addition to grind till fine
½ loving cup calamansi lime juice (20-25 limes), or iv tbsp Chinese white vinegar
xv g calamansi tegument (2 limes), rinse in addition to julienne
two bungah kantan (torch ginger buds), tender purpose only, rinse in addition to spell thinly
forty g large ruby-red chillies (2 pieces), rinse
6-10 red bird's middle chillies, rinse
two kaffir lime leaves, rinse, tear in addition to discard veins
xv g belachan (2 tbsp), toast till fragrant
½ tsp salt
two tsp sugar
1. Simmer pork belly inwards salted H2O till only tender, almost xxx minutes. When cool plenty to handle, cutting crosswise three mm thick.
2. Rinse in addition to halve cucumber lengthwise. Deseed in addition to cutting diagonally five mm thick. Soak inwards H2O for 10 minutes. Drain.
3. Prepare dried prawns, Chinese celery, lime juice, lime peel, shallots in addition to bungah kantan every bit detailed above.
4. Cut chillies in addition to kaffir lime leaves into small-scale pieces. Pound or grind amongst belachan into a fine paste.
5. Place all ingredients inwards a large bowl. Mix thoroughly. Taste in addition to conform seasoning if necessary. Refrigerate if non serving immediately.
CUCUMBER SALAD)
Source: Adapted from Cooking for the President
(Recipe for 8 persons)
300 g pork belly, cutting two cm thick
500 g cucumber
xxx g Chinese celery, cutting three cm long, blanch inwards warm H2O in addition to drain
fifty g shallots, peel, rinse in addition to spell thinly
45 g dried prawns, rinse, dry-fry or toast till semi-dry in addition to grind till fine
½ loving cup calamansi lime juice (20-25 limes), or iv tbsp Chinese white vinegar
xv g calamansi tegument (2 limes), rinse in addition to julienne
two bungah kantan (torch ginger buds), tender purpose only, rinse in addition to spell thinly
forty g large ruby-red chillies (2 pieces), rinse
6-10 red bird's middle chillies, rinse
two kaffir lime leaves, rinse, tear in addition to discard veins
xv g belachan (2 tbsp), toast till fragrant
½ tsp salt
two tsp sugar
1. Simmer pork belly inwards salted H2O till only tender, almost xxx minutes. When cool plenty to handle, cutting crosswise three mm thick.
2. Rinse in addition to halve cucumber lengthwise. Deseed in addition to cutting diagonally five mm thick. Soak inwards H2O for 10 minutes. Drain.
3. Prepare dried prawns, Chinese celery, lime juice, lime peel, shallots in addition to bungah kantan every bit detailed above.
4. Cut chillies in addition to kaffir lime leaves into small-scale pieces. Pound or grind amongst belachan into a fine paste.
5. Place all ingredients inwards a large bowl. Mix thoroughly. Taste in addition to conform seasoning if necessary. Refrigerate if non serving immediately.