Saturday 8 March 2008

Quick Balado

Ingredients:
½ kg of prawns (peeled, cut on the back and cleaned)
10cm of baby bamboo shoots (cut into small pieces, ½ cm thick, ½ circle)
2 tablespoon of onion (sliced thinly)
3 cloves of garlic
5 thin slices of ginger (just enough to get rid of prawn & bamboo shoots smell)
5 tablespoon of tomato sauce (flat)
1-2 teaspoon of chilli sauce (or according to taste) or, if KOKITA sambal balado is available, ½ a teaspoon of it will be perfect.
Salt

How to Make:
1. Heat a little bit of cooking oil in a pan on a low fire.
2. Put in the onion and fry until it is soft, then put in the garlic and fry for a little while. After that, put in the ginger, and fry to let the smell come out.
3. Put in the baby bamboo shoots, put in a little bit of salt and fry until it is soft and the salt gets into the bamboo shoots.
4. Put in the prawns, fry one side for a few minutes (until ½ cooked), and then turn the prawns and cook the other side for a few minutes.
5. Stir everything until the spices is absorbed by the prawns thoroughly.
6. Put in the tomato sauce, and mix well
7. Put in the chilli sauce, and mix well
8. Pour in a little bit of water, if the sauce looks too thick.
9. Put in a little more salt, if needed.
10. Ready to serve

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