Palm sugar in the mortar & pestle
4 recipes
There are 4 recipes here that use Palm sugar, and every one of them is scored against what is actually in your fridge before it is shown. The quickest is Peanut Sauce at 25 minutes; the longest, Simple Gado-Gado, takes 35.
None of these need an oven, an air fryer, or a microwave — a stove and a pan is enough. 2 are vegetarian. 4 are properly spicy.
Palm sugar turns up most often alongside Bird's eye chili, Catfish, Red chili and Tomato — 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.
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
Fried Catfish with Tomato Sambal
The sambal is fried, not raw — that is what makes it keep until tomorrow and taste deeper.
⏱ 30 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Peanut Sauce
The peanuts are dry-toasted, not fried. Toasting gives a roasted aroma that hot oil cannot imitate.
⏱ 25 min🍽 6 servingsEasy
Simple Gado-Gado
Boil the vegetables separately, not together. Each has its own timing, and combining them gets all of them wrong.
⏱ 35 min🍽 4 servingsMedium