I make a terrible Nyonya and even more horrible photographer. I lack skill and flair needed for both, but I certainly have a few tricks up my sleeves. I’ve gotten my hands on some gigantic prawn recently, and it was almost as big as my palm, and I decided that there’s no better way to enjoy it than make a ‘sambal tumis’ for it and have it with plain rice along with a shrimp omelet.
Here’s the recipe for my sambal tumis prawn:
Ingredients:
Prawns
1 whole onion, sliced thickly/thinly according to taste
3 tablespoon of chilli boh
1 tablespoon of chilli sauce
2 tablespoon of tomato sauce
3 spoonful of tamarind juice
Some water
Salt to taste
It’s very easy to cook. Simply sauté the sliced onions with the chilli boh, chilli sauce, tomato sauce and tamarind juice til fragrant, add some salt to taste and water along with the prawn and cook til it sizzles. Simple, no? Well, I’m not much of a cook, so if I can do it, so can you!
Cleffairy: I love to keep my cooking as simple as possible. First it’s because I’m bad at it, and second is because life is complicated enough, so why complicate cookings? After all, the best things in life are simple. 😀
aiyooo…if me just boild n eat wit chili/tomato sauce or soy sauce…else fried with salt… 😉
I want the sambal to go with rice ma… LOL…
When Jie cook let didi eat oo?xD
Wuiks… ask jie cook for u ah, Seng… bila mau find jie in KL? LOL… jie feed u kao kao. LOL!
It has been a long long time since i savored this dish,don’t know why but i prefer that one type they fry the prawns and and dip them with sambal, the hot and spicy one,, that i like.
don’t worry dear,the more you cook, the more you will enjoy it and from then you will become good….
Oh? You like that kind? I prefer this kind… very kick…very spicy, make u sweat when eat.
Saw this comment on your link on Facebook: “T_T ok that chilli crab oso look nice. dang!!! din expect you can cook… T_T evil elizabeth!!!cook for me…” Good grief…I wonder where’s the crab? Muahahahahaha!!!!
Ok…this looks good enough, but THREE prawns for three persons. Aiyor…no wonder so skinny! Kesian….
That’s my friend… hahaha… she memang wan la… see things never see properly… must be see picture only never read…either that, or tarak pakai her contacts and den see crab instead.
LOL… the prawns too big for the plate. It’s bigger than my palm…. so did not put all in the plate lorr…there was 10 of these, actually…
Cleff, how come 3 prawns only ah??? if i come, mana cukup? I love big prawns but nowadays i heard the price went up to 60rm per kilo..i think i eat them after the cny is over!!
Hahahaha… actually the plate was not big enuff for the prawns, so I just put three on it first and take more when we finished this one. Ya, now expensive lo… here the big prawns is Rm75 per kilo. I got these cheap cuz the seller oredi mau tutup kedai that day. I was lucky.
wakakaka…lucky tarak petai else would be drooling
My place here susah mau cari petai… if can i oso wanna put petai, baru umpph!
Ooooo this dish plus piping hot rice….YUMZ!
+Ant+
Ya… very nice to go with plain rice. 😀
Wow, goes with hot rice is great!
Yups… lol… just eat like that with rice… simple, but nice.
Yummy, prawn is one of my fav seafood.
Please give me a bowl of rice..I would like to serve your dish with it, hehe.