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Chef Wan's Nyonya squid sambal

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Calories: 276
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 600 g squid - cleaned and sliced
  • Juice of 5 kalamansi limes
  • 3 tablespoon tomato ketchup
  • Salt
  • 1-2 tablespoon of sugar
  • A handful of mint leaves and coriander leaves
For the spice paste
  • 8 red chillies - seeded
  • 3 bird's eye chillies 3 - seeded omit if you prefer it less spicy
  • 4 onions - peeled and quartered
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1/2 tsp of dried shrimp paste belacan
  • 1 cm fresh turmeric or 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1 cm fresh ginger
  • 2 kaffir lime leaves
  • 2 stalks of lemongrass
  • 5 candlenuts buah keras

Method
 

  1. Combine ingredients for spice paste in a food processor and blend till fine.
  2. Heat oil in a pan, fry the spice paste until fragrant. This takes about 10-15 minutes.
  3. Add in squid, lime juice and salt.
  4. Mix in tomato sauce and 1 tablespoon of sugar.
  5. Top with mint and coriander leaves.

Notes

Feel free to adjust the amount of oil used. I started with less than 1/4 cup.