Balado is a type of hot and spicy bumbu (spice mixture) found in Minang cuisine of West Sumatra, Indonesia[1] It has since spread through the rest of Indonesia and also Malaysia especially in Negeri Sembilan.[2] Balado sauce is made by stir frying ground red hot chili pepper with other spices including garlic, shallot, tomato and kaffir lime (leaves, fruit, or both) in coconut or palm oil.

Balado

Udang balado prawns in spicy balado sauce
Alternative names	Sambal goreng, sambal lado
Course	Main course
Place of origin	Indonesia
Region or state	West Sumatra
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	Egg, chicken, meat, or seafood in hot and spicy spice mixture with a large amount of red chili pepper
Media: Balado

The ingredients are quite similar to sambal hot chili paste. However, unlike sambal—which is often treated as a separate dipping condiment, 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.[3]

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 Indonesian word "berlada"). Dish names usually combine the main ingredient followed with "balado", for example:

• Ayam balado (chicken balado)[4]
• Bada balado (anchovies balado)
• Baluik balado or belut balado (eel balado)
• Cumi balado (squid balado)[5]
• Dendeng balado (dendeng balado, thinly sliced dry fried beef)[6]
• Kantang balado or kentang balado (potato balado)[7]
• Talua balado or telur balado (egg balado)[8]
• Taruang balado (eggplant balado)[9]
• Teri Kacang Balado or Peanuts Anchovy Balado.
• Tuna balado (tuna balado)[10]
• Udang balado (prawn/shrimp balado)[11]
• Sambalado or sambal balado (balado as sambal condiment), precooked balado sauce prepared early and refrigerated to be used later in cooking.[12]

Gallery

• Balado variants
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  Bada (anchovy) balado
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  Baluik (eel) balado
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  Dendeng (dried beef) balado
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  Talua (egg) balado
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  Taruang (eggplant) balado
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  Udang (prawn) balado

In popular culture

Hot and spicy balado has become an inspiration for a popular dangdut song, "Sambalado", sung by Ayu Tingting.[13]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Balado (food).

• Cuisine of Indonesia
• Sambal
• Rica-rica
• Dabu-dabu

References

External links

• Indonesian Balado sauce recipe from SBS
• Balado Sambal – Indonesian Chili Sambal (sauce) from Food Whirl
• Egg balado recipe

На других языках

[ru] Баладо