Using ingredient blachan

Assam Spicy Shrimp

• 4 garlic (cloves)
• 2 onions (red)
• 1 blachan
• 500 gr headless shrimp
• 350 ml water
• 70 gr tamarind
• 55 gr packed brown sugar
• 36 gr young ginger root
• 20 ml oyster sauce
• 16 ml oil

Indonesian Curried Crab

• 6 shallots
• 4 candlenuts
• 3 garlic (cloves)
• 3 birdseye chillies
• 2 blue crabs
• 2 stalks lemon grass
• 1 handful coriander leaves
• 1 galangal (fresh)
• 1 blachan
• 475 ml coconut milk