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Coconut sambol recipe (pol sambol)
- Cuisine: Sri Lankan
Sambols are fresh or cooked relishes and this mix of chilli, Maldive fish and fresh coconut gives a mellow but chilli warm tingle for your taste buds. Eat with rice and curry.
Ingredients
1 coconut, finely grated
1 tbsp Maldive fish, finely ground
2 tsp chilli powder
2 eschallot, finely chopped
Juice of ½ lime
Salt
Preparation
Mix together the coconut, chilli powder and Maldive fish until the flesh of the coconut has become a rich orange colour.
Add the juice of half a lime, and a small sprinkle of salt. Mix and taste. Add more lime or salt depending on your individual taste.
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