Curry Paste – Dry Ingredients
Candlenuts, Turmeric Powder, Hae Bee (dried shrimp), dried red chillies, belacan (shrimp paste)
Here are the dry ingredients required to make the curry paste. Nothing beats making your curry pastes from scratch, I’d say. Take note that the use of hae bee and belacan makes this dish not exactly vegetarian. To make it vegetarian, I’d substitute the belacan with a bit of vegemite and omit the dried prawn.
Most of these dried ingredients needs to be softened by soaking in water (I’d even do that with the candlenuts to make them easier to grind). And the belacan (cut out a 1cm thick square from the block) needs to be toasted by dry frying in a pan.