Indonesian Style Curry Paste

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 onion, chopped
• 12 chilies, chopped
• 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
• 2 stalks lemongrass, peeled and chopped
• 1 tablespoon galangal, chopped
• 5 garlic cloves, chopped
• 5 kaffir lime leaves, sliced
• 2 tablespoons ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 tablespoon shrimp paste
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 120 ml vegetable oil

Recipe

• 1 put chopped onion into the grinder or food processor.
• 2 put next 6 ingredients into pestle and grind them to coarse paste to release the flavour.
• 3 stir in the paste to the onion and grind them until they become fine paste.
• 4 toast coriander and cumin in low heat to release the flavour.
• 5 stir in toasted coriander, cumin, shrimp paste and salt to the paste and continue to grind them until paste become moist and fine.
• 6 heat up the oil in the saucepan in medium low heat.
• 7 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.
• 8 cool off the paste before storing it.