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Ingredients
  

  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 2 tbsp salt
  • Spices paste grind everything to a paste or use the mortar and pestle
  • 1/2 cup onions roughly chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 fresh chillies
  • 4 dried chillies optional soaked in hot water for half an hour or so
  • 20 g belachan preferably toasted on a dry pan toasting is optional
  • 1 piece turmeric thumb size can be replaced by 1 tbsp ground turmeric
  • Vinegar solution
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 75 ml white vinegar
  • A pinch salt
  • Veggies choose anything you like, in any combination!
  • 2 Cucumber cut like matchstick or any size you like!
  • 2 carrot
  • 1/2 cabbage of any color
  • 1/2 cauliflower
  • 1/2 cup beans
  • 1/2 cup pineapple sliced the way you like!
  • any peppers of any color seeds removed and sliced the way you like
  • Toppings
  • 2 tbsp toasted ground peanuts
  • 2 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
  • 2 tbsp dried prawns/shrimp pounded and fried optional - this is my secret ingredient

Instructions
 

  • Soak all the cut up vegetables with the 2 tablespoon of salt and leave it aside.
  • Grind the paste and heat up the oil to medium heat.
  • Add the spice paste to the oil and fry until oil exudes from the paste. This takes about 10 minutes at medium to low heat.
  • Scoop up the paste and leave aside.
  • Mix the vinegar solution.
  • Squeeze water out of the vegetables and add the spice paste and vinegar solution to it.
  • Top with toppings and stir through.
  • Serve with anything you like!