Author Terasi or red shrimp paste is one of famous ingredient to cook in Indonesia. Do you know there is and instant red shrimp paste from Bandung?
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It has different characteristics from usual red shrimp paste. This is one of special ingredient to cook. The red shrimp paste from Bandung becomes new innovation in the kitchen.
Mostly Indonesian people like to eat using sambal terasi or seems like chilli sauce with red shrimp paste. That's why it always happen in the kitchen.
There are so many kinds of red shrimp paste from different brands. However, what we talk in this article is different.
The chilli sauce is very delicious when eating with soy bean cake or tempe and tofu. Sometimes they also add the protein like fried chicken, fish, or egg. It depends on the every people appetite.
Moms that often stay in the kitchen everyday and cook for family know well the red shrimp paste. That's good idea to try new variant red shrimp paste from Bandung.
Different Characteristics of Bandung Red Shrimp Paste
There are some characteristics of Bandung red shrimp paste which very interesting and should be tried by moms for cooking sambal.
1. The Colour is Red
There first characteristics is colour. It has red color little bit maroon. Another terasi is not red. Usually, it has brown colour.
2. The Texture is Powder
Usually, terasi in Indonesia has solid texture. Bandung red shrimp paste is different. It has powder texture. Moms can look at the image above.
Read shrimp paste with solid powder is very good to be food ingredient. It is not only for sambal but also to add terasi taste in another food.
3. Bandung red shrimp paste is already cooked
Usually moms buy terasi in the market is still raw. They needs to cook firstly before use it for sambal. Bandung red shrimp paste is different.
It is already cooked. So, moms just add it and mix with another ingredient. It does not need to fry in the pan. That's so amazing and very helpful.
Three characteristics above resemble how Bandung red shrimp paste. Actually the main point is cooked characteristics.
Red shrimp paste that already cooked will make easy moms to cook and make fast cooking process in the kitchen.
How about the taste. It's approximately delicious. Bandung red shrimp paste is very good to be additional ingredient to food.