3 Easy Sambal Recipes To Try If You Love Spicy Food
Because we could all do with a little more spice in our lives
If you're Singaporean, you likely can vouch for how easily sambal can boost the flavour of a dish. To make the sambal though? It's simpler than you think – we promise! Here are the recipes for sambal belacan, sambal chilli merah tomato and sambal tempeh for all of your spice cravings:
Spice lovers know how satisfying adding sambal belacan to dishes can be, especially when used as a dip. To spice up your every meal, quickly prepare this aromatic and appetising sambal belacan recipe beforehand. You can even make extra and store it in a jar!
This version of sambal is even more flavourful thanks to the addition of tomatoes. Serve it as a sauce or have it as a base for a dish – the possibilities are endless.
A mouth-watering side dish can be easily whipped up by combining sambal with tempeh. This recipe is straightforward and foolproof, but still extremely addictive. The nutty crunch of fried tempeh just goes so well with spice!
Text: Cherrie Lim
Recipes courtesy of Fareena Mehr Omar and National Heritage Board