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A spicy dip adds interest to a simple meal of deep-fried fish or blanced clams and scalded baby squids. These tasty and easy-to-make dips are a must for those who love the tang of bite.

Cencaluk Chili Sauce Spicy Recipes

Ingredients :

1.5 tablespoons good quality cencaluk

4.5 shallots

1 tablespoon sliced red chili

1 tablespoon sliced bird’s eye chilies

Seasoning:

1 tablespoon sugar or to taste

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice

Method :

1. Slice shallots lengthwise.

2. Put cencaluk, red chili, bird’s eye’s chilies and shallots in

a bowl.

3. Add in sugar and lime juice to taste.

4. Stir well to mix

5. Serves this relish when serving deep-fried mackerel.

Chili Sauce with Saw-Tooth Coriander Spicy Recipes

Ingredients :

4 red chilies

2 cloves garlic

2-3 bird’s eye chilies

1 cm piece young ginger

2 kasturi limes, halved and seeds removed

2 saw-tooth coriander leaves

Seasoning:

1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste

1 tablespoon sugar or to taste

1 teaspoon sesame oil

Method :

1. Process red chilies, garlic, bird’s eye chilies, kasturi lime

halves, ginger and saw-tooth coriander leaves in a food

processor to a rough pulp.

2. Add seasoning to taste.

3. Transfer into a small serving bowl.

4. Serve with baby squids or meat dishes.

5. Serves 3-4

Tamarind Sambal Sauce Spicy Recipes

Ingredients :

1 heaped tablespoon tamarind pulp mixed with 150ml water

4 shallots, sliced thinly

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice

3 bird’s eye chilies, chopped

For sambal belacan:

3 red chilies

5 g toasted shrimp paste (belacan)

3 kasturi limes, halved and squeezed for juice

1-2 tablespoon sugar and salt or to taste

Method :

1. Place red chilies, bird’s eye chilies and toasted belacan in

a mortar and pound into a paste.

2. Add kasturi lime juice and a pinch of salt for taste.

3. Transfer paste into a bowl.

4. Combine tamarind pulp with water.

5. Mix and squeeze to obtain tamarind juice, then strain.

6. Put tamarind juice, shallots, 1-2 tablespoons sambal belacan

in a bowl.

7. Add lime juice, sugar and salt to taste.

8. Transfer tamarind sambal sauce into a serving dish.

9. Serve with any fried fish or grilled stingray.

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Soul food recipes have enjoyed a tradition of down-home cooking and what we affectionately call comfort food. People in the south, especially African Americans see it as the holy grail of eating and good times.

It’s used to celebrate, comfort and even heal, that’s how important it is. But because of the tight economy more people choose to cook more meals at home and save money (25% -75%) rather than eating out.

The problem is most of us like soul food , but in this fast-food age less of us know how to cook those magical meals our grand mothers and great-grandmothers cooked with ease. If you’re a new mother, wife, single man or house-husband you may have this desire or need to cook. But you may lack the mental tools and skills to pull it off.

Fortunately the internet has dozens of soul food recipe sites with those favorite dishes you enjoyed since you were a child. You know, the one’s your great-grandma used to prepare for holidays, birthdays and special occasions. That’s good news, but you may be one of the millions of “recipe challenged”. Meaning you can read a recipe, but the results always turn out between weird looking and out-right disaster.

Don’t panic, here’s 3 ways to cook soul food recipes more confidently.

1. Know Your Cooking Terms.

This seems like a simple issue, but it may surprise you how much this will add to your cooking confidence. Plus, it may surprise you how many people don’t know the correct cooking terms in a recipe, but think they know. For example, do you know the difference between mix and fold? Many cooks don’t.

As a result, not knowing the difference between those two cooking terms is the difference between a scrumptious dish fit for a king or queen or garbage a starving dog wouldn’t eat. I recommend getting a cooking dictionary or at least a book of cooking terms. When you come across a recipe term you’re not sure of you can immediately look it up. By doing this simple action, you’ll be a recipe expert in no time when it comes to cooking terms.

2. Know Your Seasonings.

If one skill defines soul food , meaning how to enjoy it and how to cook it, it’s the seasoning. Knowing how to season and what to season with what food is one of the hallmarks of a good cook, especially when it comes to southern food.

Here’s another tool that can give you a quick start and give you quick confidence. Get a soul food seasonings dictionary, available online. This will show you what seasoning go with what dishes at-a-glance. This information will help to make your cooking mistake free.

3. Know Your Measurements.

This is one of the quiet but important keys to cooking with confidence. Traditionally our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used guesstimates based on their experience. For example, a dash of this, a pinch of that. To give you quick confidence when preparing any recipe, get these 3 important – but inexpensive tools. A measuring cup, measuring spoons and a small scale. By using these simple tools you’ll have the confidence your measurements are accurate and your portions are right. They will save you the cost of the recipe failures you have to throw in the garbage can. That cost savings alone is worth the small investment, Don’t you agree?

By following these simple tips your cooking confidence will increase each time you apply them. The soul food recipes you choose will turn out more like the ones you see in the book or on the website for a change. In addition, they’ll taste more like you imagined them to be.