Pau Sambal …. is a Malay snack which uses almost the same ingredients as making donuts except that the pau after frying is cut at midsection and stuff with sambal anchovies (anchovies cook in chillies). Very spicy and yummylicious! …. My favourite snack of all times 
For those who don’t like spicy stuff, well you can substitute the fillings with either sweet red bean paste or kaya paste or custard fillings. Anything you can try as long as the end results is delicious
Pau Sambal …
Ingredients for making the Pau :
3 cups of plain flour
2 tsp of dried yeast – add inside a 1/4 cup of warm water which has already been stirred with 1 tbsp of sugar.
(Leave the yeast mixture aside for about 10 mins or till bubbles appear on the surface)
2 tbsp of margarine
1 egg
1 potato – scrub clean and boil soft. Mashed the potatoes till become paste.
1/2 cup of water with a pinch of salt
Method :
Add the flour into a bowl. Make a hole in the middle of the flour and add in the egg, yeast mixture, margarine and potato paste.
Mix all these thoroughly with you hand and gentle kneed them into a dough by adding the water bit by bit.
Cover the bowl with a wet cloth and leave it aside for about half an hour. The dough should rise to double its size.
Once it has double the size, knock the dough hard to release the air inside it. Kneed the dough again and then take some dough to make small or medium (up to your preference) ball shape pau. Leave the balls of pau on a tray(s) which has been sprinkled with some flour.
Leave it to rise for about 10-15 mins. After which you can start to fry the balls of pau in a small fire. Fry them till golden brown.
Once the pau has cool, cut in midsection and stuff it with the sambal anchovies or any fillings of your preference.
Ingredients for the Sambal anchovies :
1 bowl of dried chillies – soak in water
2 onions
1/2 tbsp of dried anchovies – soak in water
1/2 tbsp of dried prawns – soak in water
1 tsp of coriandar seeds
1 or 2 candlenuts
a pinch of belacan (dried shrimp paste) – (optional)
Ingredients above are to be grinded together.
oil
sugar and salt to taste
1/2 cup of dried anchovies
Method :
Fry the chilli paste with oil till fragrant. Add in sugar and salt and finally the anchovies. Ready to serve.
March 7, 2009 at 1:47 am
This is a sure winner! Thanks for sharing! looks easy:)
March 7, 2009 at 3:13 am
As-salaamu’alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi wa Barakatuhu my dearest sister,
Ooooh.. this sounds yummy! Would you know approximately how many this recipe would make?
Insha’Allah I’ll add it to my to-make list. These days I cook a lot, so I’ll get to it soon.
Lots of Love
Farhana
March 7, 2009 at 5:16 am
Sorter : try sri …. the other time I did half of the dough I fry and instead of adding the sambal anchovies, I mix it with castor sugar and ta-daaa u got urselves some donuts …hehehe… the kids love it!
March 7, 2009 at 5:19 am
Farhana : Wa’alaikumussalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh dearest
If I remember correctly I made about 30 sambal pau and more than a dozen of small cutey donuts out of the proportion. I suppose it all depends on how big your “pau” are. Small you will get more but if the paus are big then it will be less.
Do give your feedback after you try k
Love you!
May 11, 2009 at 5:33 pm
rajin nyer busu buat kuih pau…so delish looking
i nak buat epok2 terkial2..hehe! dah masuk dua minggu tekak nak makan..but so the malas mak buat..hehe!