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Egg sambal (Sambal telur)

Sambal telur is a popular dish served in Indonesia and Malaysia and can be found in street food carts and local restaurants. It comprises of eggs served in a spicy sambal chilli sauce. Serve with steamed rice to soak up that divine sambal sauce with the crispy eggs!

Egg sambal (Sambal telur)

Egg sambal (Sambal telur) Credit: Kitti Gould

  • serves

    6

  • prep

    10 minutes

  • cook

    10 minutes

  • difficulty

    Easy

serves

6

people

preparation

10

minutes

cooking

10

minutes

difficulty

Easy

level

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Ingredients

  • 150 g long red chilli
  • 6 birds' eye or scud chillies
  • vegetable oil, for deep frying
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 150 g Asian eschallots
  • 1 large tomato
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 3 makrut lime leaves
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1 lime, juiced
  • 6 eggs, hard boiled (cooked for 6 minutes), peeled
  • steamed rice, to serve

Instructions

  1. Roast the chillies in a dry frying pan or over an open flame over a wire cake rack until lightly charred. Heat a large saucepan of vegetable oil, for deep-frying the eggs.
  2. Blitz the chillies in a food processor roughly with garlic, eschallots and tomato.
  3. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok or frying pan and sauté the makrut lime leaves until fragrant.
  4. Add the chilli paste, salt and sugar and fry, stirring constantly until the moisture is mostly cooked out and the oil splits out of the sambal. Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary, then add the lime juice.
  5. Whilst the sambal is cooking, deep-fry the eggs at 180˚C for 1-2 minutes or until golden.
  6. Add the eggs to the pan with the sambal, and stir-fry to combine for 1-2 minutes.
  7. Serve the sambal telur over steamed rice.

Photography by Kitti Gould.


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Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.

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