Sambal Marinade

Name: Sambal Marinade
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1½ cups (350 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: ⅓ cup (80 ml) Vegetable Oil; about 2 shallots (80 g) Shallot; about 10 chiles (20 g) Dried Chile; about 10½ chiles (75 g) Chile; about 3 Tbsp (60 g) Tamarind; ½ cup (125 ml) Water; 60 g Palm Sugar; 60 ml fish sauce (¼ cup) Fish Sauce; 1 tbsp lime juice (15 ml) Lime Juice

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Aaron Turner recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Aaron Turner.

MARINADE · GRILLED CHICKEN WINGS & MEATS

In the published recipe, this is the marinade for sambal grilled chicken wings.

Turner's sambal marinade for grilled chicken wings.

On the jar

SAMBAL

Method: stove
Yield: about 1½ cups
Ingredients: 9

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Vegetable Oil 80 mlWater 125 mlFish Sauce 60 mlLime Juice 15 ml

Ingredients

Vegetable Oil⅓ cup (80 ml)
Shallotabout 2 shallots (80 g)
Dried Chileabout 10 chiles (20 g)
Chileabout 10½ chiles (75 g)
Tamarindabout 3 Tbsp (60 g)
Water½ cup (125 ml)
Palm Sugar60 g
Fish Sauce60 ml fish sauce (¼ cup)
Lime Juice1 tbsp lime juice (15 ml)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Aaron Turner — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. Good Food Guide 2 hats (Igni).

Adapted from a Aaron Turner recipe (Aaron Turner / Gourmet Traveller (Igni sambal grilled wings)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Aaron Turner / Gourmet Traveller (Igni sambal grilled wings) (published as “Sambal Marinade”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

Can I use it as a marinade and a sauce?

Yes, but keep the portions separate. Never pour marinade that touched raw meat, poultry, or seafood back over the finished dish unless you bring it to a full boil first. Set aside a clean portion before marinating if you want a table sauce too.

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