Basic Homemade Dried Chilli Paste | Mom's recipe with three ingredients

Today i'm showing you a very basic sambal or chili paste recipe courtesy of mom. This sambal chili paste is a base ingredient for a lot of malay dishes So I always whip up a big batch and keep it in the fridge so that I will always have some on hand There's a lot of variations to this sambal paste, but this is the most super super basic super easy to prepare version So let's go You're going to need about um this much dried chilies My mom does everything by Guesstimation someday I will inherit this guesstimation superpower till then let's do it this way. I have 20 dried chilies here My dried chilies are pretty clean here But if your dried chilies still has the stalks attached to it, then please cut off those stalks, okay You're also going to need onions and garlic and a dessert Just three ingredients dried chilies onions and garlic To the dried chilies we are going to pour some hot boiling water over them and let it sit in the hot water You can actually boil this as well just that my mom says that that will apparently make you sneeze a lot so Okay The whole purpose here is to actually rehydrate it and make it more plump It's done when you see the dried chilies kind of swell up like this So this is the original dried chili in its shriveled up form And this is the dried chili when it's rehydrated It will take about 15 to 20 minutes for the dried chilies to rehydrate Then go ahead and drain away the water and give the rehydrated chilies a couple of rinses under running water Give it a wash two to three times to really clean it according to my mom Not sure why the boiling water isn't going to kill off whatever's lurking on it anyway, but yeah Mama say it's okay to my 20 stalks of dried chilies, I am going to be using about three shallots or One big onion and i'm also going to be using four cloves of garlic And then we're ready to blend everything together You can cut the chilies if you want to just so it will blend easier, but according to my mom It doesn't matter just add more water Love it To my chili blend I used about 100 milliliters or just under one cup of water Just add the water bit by bit until it blends easily And that's it that's all there is to this basic sambal chili paste Of course, you can be a little bit more fancy. You can add things like belacan or shrimp paste dried shrimps Ginger lemongrass, you can get very creative But like I said, this is the basic concoction and this is all you need for the majority of malay dishes It's super easy and yeah, try this make my mama proud. Bye