Malaysian seafood curry recipe

Ingredients

• 1 tsp Thai shrimp paste
• 1 tbsp sambal sauce
• 4 shallots
• 4 garlic cloves
• 2 bird's eye chillis
• 20 chantennay carrots, or 5 carrots cut into quaters
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 l coconut milk (400ml for the rice)
• 80 g Malaysian fish curry powder
• 16 mussels
• 20 cockles
• 12 baby octopus or baby squid
• 4 softshell crabs
• 1 cup flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 750 ml vegetable oil for deep-frying
• 1 lime
• 2 cups rice
• 100 ml water
• 4 sprigs coriander