Fried Chilli Sambal

• 6 large fresh red chilies, roughly chopped
• 1 large onion, roughly chopped
• 6 garlic cloves
• 8 -10 brazil nuts or 8 -10 macadamia nuts, finely grated
• 3 tablespoons peanut oil
• 1/2 teaspoon Laos powder (galangal)
• 1 tablespoon dried shrimp paste (trasi)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 5 tablespoons tamarind juice
• 2 tablespoons palm sugar (brown sugar)

1. Put chillies, onion and garlic in blender and blend to a pulp.
2. Heat the oil in a small frying pan or saucepan and fry the blended mixture over low heat, stirring, for 5 mins or until well cooked but not brown.
3. Add nuts, laos, trasi and salt.
4. Crush the trasi against the side of the pan and fry, stirring, until mixture is well blended.
5. Add tamarind liquid and sugar, stir and simmer until well fried and reddish-brown and the oil separates from the mixture.
6. Cool and bottle.

fresh red chilies, onion, garlic, nuts, peanut oil, laos powder, shrimp, salt, tamarind juice, palm sugar

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/fried-chilli-sambal-198190 (may not work)