Belacan is an extremely popular condiment used in a great variety of Malaysian cooking. It comes in the form of a pressed brick or cake and the unique thing about it is that the ingredients of belacan are all raw. Traditionally, they are made with a kind of very tiny shrimps, drained and salted before being left to ferment and dry in the sun. Then, they are mashed together to form a paste and fermented again and this process is repeated. The smell of roasted belacan can be digusting to some but heavenly to others. As an ingredient, it mellows out and harmonises in the cooking and acts as a sort of natural flavour enhancer.
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