Sambal, which is a chili paste or sauce, is delicious enough as a condiment. Add it to regular ingredients and you will find that it makes it into a delicious food known as balado. One particularly unique pairing is sambal with terong, or also known as eggplants.
Terong Balado is a Padang-style dish, not only favored by residents of the West Sumatra region, but also loved throughout the archipelago, even abroad. It’s one of the dishes that is easy and cheap but still has a distinctive taste with its spicy seasoning that can make everyone who tries it addicted.
For those of you who are super busy and don’t have much time to prepare dishes for your family at home, this terong balado recipe is one of the best choices, because the ingredients and seasonings are easy to get, and the method of making it is very practical and fast.
Ingredients:
- 5 pcs shallots
- 3 pcs garlic
- ½ tomato
- 5 pcs red chili (big)
- 5 pcs red chilli (keriting)
- 2 pcs daun jeruk
- 1 pcs daun kunyit
- 1 tsp or more salt
- ½ tsp sugar
- 50 ml Oil for frying the ingredients
- 100 ml Water
- 5 pcs Terong ungu (eggplant)
Optional:
- 1 tsp terasi
Method:
- Blend all ingredients except leaves, terong, water and oil.
- Steam terong for about 15 minutes
- Cut terong to half and put aside
- Stir fry mixed ingredients until fragrant. Add water.
- Put the steam eggplant and cook until its soft
- Put all the leaves.
- Taste it and serve!
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