Description
Okra stir-fried with chilies and Malaysian shrimp paste.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 5 fresh red chili peppers, chopped
- 10 uncooked shrimp – peeled, deveined, and cut in half
- 10 fresh okra pods, sliced diagonally
- 1 teaspoon belacan (Malaysian chili-shrimp paste)
- 2 teaspoons light soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Heat the vegetable oil in a wok or skillet over medium-high heat; cook and stir the garlic until fragrant
- about 1 minute. Stir in the red chilies
- shrimp
- okra
- and belacan
- and cook and stir until the chilies begin to soften and the shrimp start to turn opaque and pink
- about 2 minutes. Pour in light soy sauce and water
- and cook and stir until the okra are tender and sticky
- 2 to 4 more minutes.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
Servings: 4