You can have this with multitude of dishes, like with plain white bread, white rice, fried rice. And in Singapore, malaysia...we usually have it with nasi lemak for most part. Nasi Lemak ( rice cooked with coconut milk), will update recipe for tht..in a bit.
Ingredients:
10 shallots
4 cloves garlic
10 to 15 stalk dried chilies, soak in hot water for 1/2 hours
2 tsp of prawn powder ( optional)
2 tbspoonfull tamarind, dissolve in 1/2 cup water
Some oil for frying
3 tbsp sugar & salt to taste
Directions:
1. Blend all ingredients oil till fine.
2. Heat oil in pan and saute blended ingredients till fragrant.
3. Add in sugar (can add in more if prefer to have a sweetish taste)
& salt. Stir well with medium fire.
4. Pour in the filtered tamarind juice in, stirr & close lid.
5. Fry this sambal about 20 more min. with stirring on & off.( the longer the better