Chili Sambal. Its made by the same company, as is the pungent Garlic Chili Paste, and that also is not in the same class as the plain Sambal Oelek. I bought the Garlic Sambal to try it, and gagged. I ended up putting it around my outside plants to repel squirrels and rabbits.

A "sambal" actually refers to any chili sauce or paste that is made from a variety of chili peppers, with any number of other ingredients added in for flavor. Any chili sauce or paste would be called sambal. Our Latest Featured Videos There are variations, of course. You can cook Chili Sambal using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chili Sambal

It's 1 of lot of red chili!!.
Prepare of Red bell pepper or capsicum (more if you prefer less spicy).
You need 2 of tomatoes.
Prepare 4 of big shallots.
It's 10 of garlics.
Prepare of turmeric.
It's of salt.
Prepare of sugar.
Prepare 2 of lemongrass.

Sambal Chili is the quintessential condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Almost every household will have their own hot chili sauce recipe. The base ingredients of the sauce are usually red chili, shallot, garlic. Sambal is known for the presence of main ingredients such as chili, scallion or ginger; the spiciness of the chili, however, does not cover the other flavors but is part of a tasty blend of secondary ingredients, such as belacan or terasi (shrimp paste), fish sauce, garlic, ginger, onion, scallion, palm sugar, lime, and rice vinegar or other vinegars.

Chili Sambal instructions

After washing all ingredients, you can either boil them or fry them to make it soft and easy to grind. I prefer boiling them. Avoid boiling the garlic, lemongrass, and tomatoes..
Pound the ingredients, start from the chili, continue adding other ingredients and start with the hard ones until the softest ones. I use stone mortar and pestle to crush the ingredients. Crush until it smooth. Salt and sugar helps smoothen the texture. Don't forget to taste it..
Prepare oil and pan, cook all the crushed ingredients until the smell is out and fragrant..
Add the lemongrass and stir until all even..

Sambal oelek originated in Indonesia but has grown in popularity far beyond its home region to become a global condiment. You can find many incarnations of this chili paste across southeast Asia. For example, you will find forms of it in Cambodia and Thailand. Traditional "sambal tumis" recipes usually also call for tamarind and candlenuts, but this recipe is kept simple with just a few key ingredients - fresh chillies, shallots and belacan. Belacan is a shrimp paste which comes in a block or powder form and is a widely used ingredient in Malaysia.