Balado is a type of hot and spicy ''

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mixture) found in Minang cuisine of

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It has since spread through the rest of Indonesia and also Malaysia especially in Negeri Sembilan. Balado sauce is made by stir frying ground red hot

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with other spices including garlic,

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and

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(leaves, fruit, or both) in coconut or palm oil. The ingredients are quite similar to ''

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'' hot chili paste. However, unlike ''sambal''—which is often treated as a separate dipping

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, balado chili sauce is usually mixed and stir fried together with its main ingredients and treated as a dish. Balado is suitable for fried prawns, squid, fish (whole or cutlets), chicken, fried boiled eggs, fried beef, eggplant or potatoes. Because of its almost identical ingredients and technique, the term ''balado'' is often interchangeable with ''sambal goreng'' (lit.: "fried sambal"). Nevertheless, the term ''balado'' is more specifically referring to Minang cooking tradition, while ''sambal goreng'' refers to a more general Indonesian cuisine tradition.

Variants

In the Minang dialect the term ''balado'' literally means "with chili" or "in chili", since ''lado'' means "chili pepper" in the Minang dialect (compared with the

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word "berlada"). Dish names usually combine the main ingredient followed with "balado", for example: * ''Ayam balado'' (chicken balado) * ''Bada balado'' (anchovies balado) * ''Baluik balado'' or ''belut balado'' (eel balado) * ''Cumi balado'' (squid balado) * ''Dendeng balado'' (''

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'' balado, thinly sliced dry fried beef) * ''Kantang balado'' or ''kentang balado'' (potato balado) * ''Talua balado'' or ''telur balado'' (egg balado) * ''Taruang balado'' ( eggplant balado) * ''Teri Kacang Balado'' or ''Peanuts Anchovy Balado''. * ''Tuna balado'' (

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balado) * ''

Udang balado Udang balado or Sambal goreng udang is a hot and spicy shrimp dish commonly found in Indonesian cuisine. It is made of shrimp, either peeled or unpeeled, stir-fried in hot and spicy sambal paste in small amount of cooking oil. Ingredients The '' ...

'' (prawn/shrimp balado) * ''Sambalado'' or ''sambal balado'' (balado as sambal condiment), precooked balado sauce prepared early and refrigerated to be used later in cooking.

Gallery

File:Bada balado.JPG, ''Bada'' (anchovy) balado File:BALUIK BALADO.jpg, ''Baluik'' (eel) balado File:Dendeng balado.JPG, ''Dendeng'' (dried beef) balado File:Telur Balado.jpg, ''Talua'' (egg) balado File:Terong Balado 2.jpg, ''Taruang'' (eggplant) balado File:Udang balado masakan Padang.jpg, ''Udang'' (prawn) balado

In popular culture

Hot and spicy balado has become an inspiration for a popular

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song, "Sambalado", sung by

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References

External links

Indonesian Balado sauce recipe
from SBS
Balado Sambal – Indonesian Chili Sambal (sauce)
from Food Whirl
Egg balado recipe
{{Indonesian cuisine Padang cuisine Indonesian cuisine

Variants

Gallery

In popular culture

See also

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