Sambal

Sambal, it's a sauce typically made from chilli peppers combine with another ingredients like shrimp paste, garlic, scallion, lime, etc. Sambal is served with dishes like fried/baked chicken/fish or others. Without sambal, it feels like lack of taste. There is something wrong with the food although already taste good. But sambal will make the food more "hmmmm, yummy". Sambal originally from Indonesia and there is approximately 300 varieties of sambal in Indonesia ( source : wikipedia ). Sambal kacang, sambal terasi, sambal tomat, sambal balado, sambal dabu - dabu, sambal colo - colo and still more. You gotta love Indonesian food cause you will find a lot more food treasures. Nowadays you can find sambal that ready to eat in market but the taste is different with freshly home made sambal.

I will share 5 recipes of home made sambal, here they are : 

1. Sambal Kecap ( Soy Sauce )

Ingredients :

• Onion, chop it
• Cayenne
• Sugar
• Lime
• Tomatoes

How to make :

First, coarse chopping the onion, cut into pieces the chilli and tomatoes. Then put onion, chilli in bowl, add sugar and stir. Then put sweet soy sauce into the bowl and give some lime extract. At last, put the tomatoes.

Sambal Kecap

 
2. Sambal Tomat ( Tomatoes Sauce )

Ingredients :

• a kilo of tomatoes, cut into pieces
• cooked shrimp paste
• salt
• 1 tablespoon of palm sugar
• 4 onions, cut into pieces
• 3 tablespoon of vegetable soil for sauteing
• ground spices
• 3 garlic
• 3 chilli or more

How to make :

Saute onion until fragrant. Enter the spices and tomatoes, stir until tomatoes disintegrate. Add salt, sugar, and shrimp paste, stirring constantly over medium heat until shrinkage. 

Sambal Tomat

3. Sambal Ijo

Ingredients :

• Spicy green chili, slice it
•  1 clove of garlic finely sliced 
• 2 cloves of finely sliced ​​red onion  
• salt to taste 
• sugar to taste 
• Cooking oil to taste

How to make : 

Heat the cooking oil saute pans input bw bw white and red to fragrant, add the green chillies and all the spices until all wilted.

Sambal Ijo

4. Sambal Terasi ( Shrimp paste )

Ingredients :

• 8 cayenne  
• 5 pieces of red chili
• 1 teaspoon shrimp paste, burned  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

How to make : 

Grind all the ingredients until smooth. Put it in a bowl and serve.

Sambal Terasi

5. Sambal Mangga ( Mango ) 

Ingredients : 

• 1 of young mango, seeded, cut into 2 cm 
• 5 red chili 
• 2 tablespoons dried shrimp, soaked in hot water for 15 minutes 
• 3 cm grilled shrimp (shrimp paste 1 teaspoon powdered) 
• salt to taste

How to make : 

Chili, shrimp paste and salt crushed, dried shrimp washed enter, shear zones until all ingredients are well blended. Then enter the mango. Coarse mash until somewhat crushed mango, stir well and serve. 

Sambal Mangga