Udang Asam Pedas - spicy prawns from Kalimantan

spicy prawns from Kalimantan

Bahan-bahan:

ingredients:

1250 ml water

500g large shrimp/prawns

5 cloves garlic

5 shallots

4 jeruk purut

1 tbsp asemwater

 

bumbu:

5 red chilies

5 red rawits

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon shrimp paste

1 tsp salt

1 tsp palm sugar

 

preparation:

Clean the prawns. Slice the shallots and the garlic into thin slices. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste.

Heat in a pan the water and add the heads and skin of the shrimp and cook until there is 1000ml broth. Strain the broth. Bring the broth to a boil and add the garlic, shallots, jeruk purut and the paste and cook it for 5 minutes. Add the prawns and the asem water and cook until the pranws are done. Spoon the shrimp out and serve.