Recipe: Perfect Petai With Prawn in Sambal

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Petai With Prawn in Sambal. My late grandmother loved sambal udang with petai (stinky beans), and I remember vividly the after smell of her eating petai. Personally, I am not a fan of petai. I like my sambal udang (prawn sambal) really simple, with plenty of shrimps and the right balance of spicy, sour, salty, and a tint of sweetness from the freshness of shrimps/prawns.

Petai With Prawn in Sambal Add the tamarind water, salt, and sugar; cook until the prawns are cooked through. Garnish with sliced red chili, fried garlic, and shallots. Combination of sambal, prawn, and petai that brings just about any meal to life. You can cook Petai With Prawn in Sambal using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Petai With Prawn in Sambal

  1. It's of Petai.
  2. You need of Small prawns.
  3. Prepare of Onions.
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp of Sambal belacan.
  5. You need 1 tbsp of soy sauce.
  6. It's 1 tbsp of sweet soy sauce.
  7. You need 3 tbsp of water.

Plus, it's such a flexible dish that sambal petai with prawn, as it is commonly called in Malaysia, is easily. A Thai-style take on sambal petai prawns, the pad sataw goong has more layers of flavour. Fish sauce adds umami (left) while aromatics and chillies are the base of a good 'sambal' Fish sauce, known as nam pla in Thai, adds pungent umami. Petai is a type of green beans with a signature taste and smell.

Petai With Prawn in Sambal instructions

  1. Cut petai into half and remove the inner seed. Wash clean in water. Boil the petai in a pot of hot water for 5 minutes to make it softer and set aside..
  2. Heat up 1 tbsp oil in wok and quick stir fry some prawns and set aside. You can marinate the prawns with salt, sugar and some pepper for 20 minutes before cooking..
  3. Heat up wok with 1 tbsp oil again and stir fry onions till aroma and put in the petai. Toss a few rounds and add in the prawns..
  4. Add soy sauce, sweet soy sauce and sambal. Stir fry a bit and add in some water and let it boil and simmer for 3 minutes. Ready to serve..

It is a favorite dish among Malaysians and usually cooked with prawn and sambal belacan. This dish can be found in Malay food stalls and nasi lemak stalls. Sambal udang petai (spicy chili gravy with prawn and stink bean) This dish is a common dish in South East Asia country and to be more precise, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore & Thailand. Most of the country here in south east asia love spicy food and sambal udang petai is one of it. Petai (stink bean) is one of my favourite bean, especially cooked with sambal prawn, super yummy!