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- 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.
If you enjoyed this Coconut sambol recipe (pol sambol) then browse more Sri Lankan recipes, side dish recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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| Restaurant | Book Online | Suburb | |
| 1. | Araliya | Hawthorn | |
| 2. | Blue Elephant | Pennant Hills | |
| 3. | Radio Cairo | Cremorne | |
| 4. | Annalakshmi on the Swan | Perth | |
| 5. | 7 Spices | Applecross | |
| 6. | Woodapple | Hampton | |
| 7. | Tas Ceylon | Lenah Valley | |
| 8. | Banana Leaf | City | |
| 9. | Jazzi's Indian & Continental Restaurant | South Hurstville | |
| 10. | Flavour of Ceylon | Parramatta |
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