Indonesian Style Curry Paste
photo by Nasi Goreng
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 cup
ingredients
- 1 onion, chopped
- 12 chilies, chopped
- 4.92 ml black peppercorns
- 2 stalk lemongrass, peeled and chopped
- 14.79 ml galangal, chopped
- 5 garlic cloves, chopped
- 5 kaffir lime leaves, sliced
- 29.58 ml ground coriander
- 4.92 ml cumin
- 14.79 ml shrimp paste
- 4.92 ml salt
- 120 ml vegetable oil
directions
- Put chopped onion into the grinder or food processor.
- Put next 6 ingredients into pestle and grind them to coarse paste to release the flavour.
- Stir in the paste to the onion and grind them until they become fine paste.
- Toast coriander and cumin in low heat to release the flavour.
- Stir in toasted coriander, cumin, shrimp paste and salt to the paste and continue to grind them until paste become moist and fine.
- Heat up the oil in the saucepan in medium low heat.
- Pour the paste into the saucepan and stir occasionally and turn the heat to low when it gets hot and keep stirring in, all is about 10 minute.
- Cool off the paste before storing it.
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