Homemade Eggplant with Sambal Recipe

Our Eggplant with Sambal, a delightful dish waiting to be made in the cozy confines of your own kitchen. With this recipe, we're keeping things simple, natural, and delicious. It's all about the joy of home cooking, using easy-to-find ingredients and straightforward steps. Eggplant with Sambal is a famous Indonesian food. This food can be found in Padang, especially in Padang restaurants. In general, eggplant can be fried before being cooked with balado sauce, but you can also boil the eggplant if you don't like fried eggplant. Several kinds of eggplant can be cooked as a side dish, there are purple eggplant and green eggplant. This type of side dish provides vitamins and minerals needed by our body. For Eggplant with Sambal, we will be using purple eggplant. The ingredients are very simple, consisting of shallots, garlic, some red chilies, and other spices. Balado is a spicy red sauce mixed with chunks of red chili sauce, which can be mixed with a variety of other foods. Meat or vegetables that can be made with this Balado sauce include beef, chicken, shrimp, squid, eggplant, eggs, potatoes, etc. For the meat, usually, it has to be sauteed first so that the meat is cooked, then mixed with Balado sauce. It's very easy to make, you can see the recipe and the steps for Eggplant with Sambal below.