Sambal Bajak is an Indonesian sauce that is more like a slightly chunky brown paste. You can use Sambal Bajak as a side condiment on a plate, or spread it on crackers. Sambal Bajak is made from red chile, powdered galangal, garlic, nutmeg, palm sugar, dried shrimp paste, shallots and tamarind. Some recipes call for…
Sambals
Sambal Bawang
Sambal Bawang is a red sauce, more like a chunky relish or chutney, based on shallots. It is made from Dried Shrimp paste, shallots, garlic, oil, salt, red chiles and lime juice. The garlic and shallots are sliced. You heat the oil, add everything and sauté it for a few minutes, then cool and stir…
Sambal Belacan
Sambal Belacan is a sauce or paste based on dried shrimp paste made in Malaysia and Singapore. You toast dried shrimp paste, and purée it with chopped, seeded red chiles, season it with salt and pepper, and adjust taste with lime juice. Sambal Belacan is used as a condiment in cooking or at the table….
Sambal Brandal
Sambal Brandal is a spicy Indonesian condiment relish. It is served as a side condiment, not mixed into other food as an ingredient. It is made from ground fresh small chile peppers often called “Dutch Hot Peppers.” These, along with shallots, shrimp paste, and Kemiries (nuts), are sautéed in coconut oil, then lemon juice and…
Sambal Dabo Lilang
Sambal Dabo Lilang is an uncooked Indonesian relish made from chopped onion, tomato, and red and green chiles, flavoured with fresh basil and lime zest. It has a hot but fresh taste. You let the flavours marry for several hours before using. Cooking Tips 1 medium sized onion 1 small tomato 1 teaspoon fresh basil…
Sambal Djeruk
Sambal Djeruk is an uncooked Indonesian sauce made from chiles (red or green), lime juice and dried shrimp paste. Language Notes “Djeruk” means “lime.”
Sambal Goreng Dadar
Sambal Goreng Dadar is a chunky Indonesian sauce. Eggs are beaten with salt, pepper and parsley, then let stand 15 minutes. The egg is then fried without stirring to make a omelette, and browned on both sides. While still warm, the omelette is rolled up, then allowed to cool, and cut into slices. The egg…
Sambal Kacang
Sambal Kacang is a hot, spicy Indonesian peanut sauce. The peanuts are stir-fried first, then pounded into a paste along with peeled garlic, sliced and seeded bird’s eye chiles, and Kaempferia Galangal. put into a pan and simmered for an hour with kaffir lime leaves, sweet soy sauce, salt and water then lime juice added…
Sambal Kecap
Sambal Kecap is an Indoneisan dipping sauce. It is made from a sweet version of soy sauce, chopped fresh red chile, lime juice and shallots. Cooking Tips 5 birds eye red chiles, seeded and finely chopped 4 small shallots, peeled, thinly sliced 4 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce 1 teaspoon of lime juice Mix all.
Sambal Lada Hijau
Sambal Lada Hijau is a cooked Sambal (Indonesian sauce or relish.) It is made from dried anchovies, sautéed in oil, with sautéed shallots, green bird’s-eye chiles, and tomatoes.
Sambal Limau
Sambal Limau is an Indonesian relish. The name of the relish should actually be Sambal Limau “Napis”, to be more precise. It is served with salads with fried fish or chicken. Cooking Tips 4 red chiles 2 teaspoons of belacan 2 key limes (juiced) sugar and salt to aste Seed the chiles, chop them up…
Sambal Luat
A Sambal with luat (jicama) in it. It is like a relish. Cooking Tips 1 jicama, about 4 oz (100g) 1 dozen small red chiles, sliced ½ teaspoon dried shrimp paste 2 cloves garlic 1 ½ tablespoons lime or lemon juice 2 sprigs basil, washed. Peel the jicama, and slice it thinly. Set aside in…
Sambal Manbo
Sambal Manbo is an Indonesian condiment sauce. It is made from finely chopped birds-eye chiles, a souring agent such as tamarind juice, fried, ground peanuts, soy sauce, onions, dried shrimp paste, and garlic. The onion and garlic are cooked until soft, then the rest of the ingredients are added except the tamarind juice. The mixture…
Sambal Mangga
Sambal Mangga is an Indonesian chile relish based on unripe mangos. It is made from shredded unripe mango, onion, red and green chiles (seeded and de-stemmed), dried shrimp paste, and salt. The shredded mango has salt sprinkled on it, and is left for about 15 minutes, then the juice is squeezed out of it. Meanwhile,…
Sambal Manis
Sambal Manis is a dark, bright red hot sauce made in Indonesia from chiles, onion, tomato, spices, sugar and vinegar. The chile peppers are ground up. In Indonesia, Palm Sugar will be used instead of white sugar (try dark brown sugar), and tamarind paste instead of vinegar. It has a mild, sweet taste. It is…
Sambal Soto
Sambal Soto is an Indonesian chile sauce traditionally served as a side dish to noodle soups. It’s made from fried candlenuts, shallots, bird’s-eye chiles, garlic, salt, white sugar and citrus juice (lemon or lime.) To make, you whiz all the ingredients together in a food processor, or pound the solid ones in a mortar and…
Sambal Tauco
Sambal Tauco is an a Indonesian salty relish made with salted yellow soy beans (which you buy in a can.) It is made from shallots, garlic and green chiles that are puréed together into a paste, then heated for a short time with lemon grass, tamarind juice, palm sugar and oil, then coconut milk and…
Sambal Terong
Sambal Terong is an Indonesian sambal sauce based on eggplant (aka Aubergine.) It is made from eggplant, green chiles, onion, garlic, dried shrimp paste, brown sugar and tomatoes, simmered together. The sauce can be served hot or cold.
Sambal Tomat
Sambal Tomat is an Indonesian tomato-based condiment. There are two versions, fresh and cooked. Both are made from tomatoes, red birds eye chiles, shrimp paste, lime juice, shallots, garlic and oil. For the cooked version, the ingredients are sautéed briefly, then the tomatoes and shrimp paste added and simmered for a bit, then the mixture…
Sambal Udang
Sambal Udang is an Indonesian sauce made from chiles, garlic, shallots, tamarind, tomatoes and either dried shimp or dried shrimp paste (blachan.) The shrimp and tamarind are soaked in water to soften them, then drained, and ground to a paste. The paste is added to shallots and chiles that have been stir fried. The mixture…
Sambal Ulek
Sambal Ulek is an Indonesian savoury paste. One of the most common of Indonesian Sambals, it is relatively mild as Sambals go. It is made from fresh hot red chiles (chopped, but seeds left in them), ground to a paste. Other ingredients can include garlic, salt, shallots and / or tamarind. A very simple version…
Sambals
Sambals are Indonesian sauces. The ingredients vary wildly depending on what kind of Sambal is being made, but chile is common in many of them, and thus they tend to have a hot flavour. Not all, though,are incredibly hot. Mild ones include Sambal Oelek and Sambal Manis. A Sambal can be as simple as a…