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They asked if she had eaten, and she said no, and they made her a supper of rice and blachan, the highly-spiced paste of ripe prawns and fish that the Malays preserve in an upended concrete drain pipe.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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They asked if she had eaten, and she said no, and they made her a supper of rice and blachan, the highly-spiced paste of ripe prawns and fish that the Malays preserve in an upended concrete drain pipe.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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Tip the powder into a mini food processor and add the coconut, drained and soaked red chillies, garlic, ginger, turmeric, lemongrass, blachan, sugar and vegetable oil.
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½ tsp blachan (shrimp paste) ½ tsp palm or light muscovado sugar
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