Recipes with Shrimp paste
3 recipes
There are 3 recipes here that use Shrimp paste, and every one of them is scored against what is actually in your fridge before it is shown. The quickest is Stir-Fried Water Spinach with Shrimp Paste at 10 minutes; the longest, Fried Catfish with Shrimp Paste Sambal, takes 30. 2 of them finish in twenty minutes or less, which is usually what matters on a weeknight.
None of these need an oven, an air fryer, or a microwave — a stove and a pan is enough. 3 are properly spicy.
Shrimp paste turns up most often alongside Tomato, Water spinach, Red chili and Palm sugar — if you have one or two of those as well, more of this list becomes cookable tonight rather than after a shopping trip. Add what you have to your fridge and the recipes reorder themselves around it, with anything missing collected into a shopping list.
Stir-Fried Water Spinach with Shrimp Paste
Five minutes in a hot wok. One secret only: never put a lid on it.
⏱ 10 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Fried Catfish with Shrimp Paste Sambal
The sambal is pounded, not blended. It comes out coarse, and that is exactly right.
⏱ 30 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Lombok-Style Water Spinach
The greens are boiled, not fried, then topped with raw tomato sambal. Two textures that a stir-fry never gives you.
⏱ 20 min🍽 3 servingsEasy