Love to cook and feel like some time-out in the kitchen? This recipe will delight. Fleur Caulton from Madam Woo has included these recipes for not just the Sambal Prawns but also the Madam Woo Sambal Paste (also used in the Madam Woo Beef Rendang) and the Sambal Prawn Paste. When you make these recipes from scratch you will have a bit of paste left for your creations, enough to give you a Madam Woo treats on any quiet homebound weekend or weeknight. A note from The Wine Lists food editor Laura Faire: This is a great recipe to arm yourself with before heading off to your local Asian Specialty store. I find that most of these ingredients keep well, either in a darkened spice drawer or even the freezer.
When making up the Tamarind Water to complete the Prawn Sambal Paste it is great to make a big jug by boiling the tamarind block in water, skim off the amount needed for the recipe and use the rest for a special cocktail, mocktail or even an unusual bucks-fizz.
I have left the measurements as supplied by the chef, a little bit of commonsense can be used here at home though, a pinch of salt would suffice for 1 gram, (1 teaspoon of salt is 4 grams).
Madam Woo Sambal Prawns
25ml canola oil
1g curry leaf
20g red onions, sliced
180g prawn cutlets, butterfly-cut
50g okra, cut in half
3pcs dried red chili
15ml chicken stock
50g sambal prawn paste* recipes below
salt and pepper
Garnish : Fried Vietnamese mint and spring onion
Method
Chili Sambal
90g shallot, peeled and chopped
15g garlic cloves
50g cooked dried chili * see below
15g candlenut, * https://bit.ly/2WM1pic or use macadamia or cashew
100mls canola oil
20g caster sugar
4g salt
How to cook dried chili Add the dried chili into a pot of boiling water, and continue to simmer for 1/2hr. Strain into a colander, keep in the container.
Method:
Prawn Sambal Paste
60g sambal paste
5g shrimp paste
1g kaffir lime leaf (roughly chopped )
5g crushed lemongrass
5g minced ginger
5g crushed garlic
15mls canola oil
4 pcs curry leaves
1g ground turmeric
5ml fish sauce
1g salt
2g caster sugar
30ml tamarind water (3 parts water 1 part tamarind)
Method
The most complicated part of this recipe is having the right-sized casserole or stove-friendly roasting pan to fit the short rib.
Once your equipment is sorted this recipe is designed to give you plenty of time to chillax. A few minutes of work up front, followed by hands-off 4-4.5 hours in the oven.