Tomato and onion sambol recipe

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  • Cuisine: Sri Lankan
  • Serves 6

Featured as part of our Cooks and their Books series, this recipe comes courtesy of Channa Dassanayaka, author of Sri Lankan Flavours.

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Ingredients

4 large tomatoes
Juice of 1 lime or lemon
1 tsp chopped green chilli
3/4 tsp salt
1 large red onion, thinly sliced
1/2 tsp Maldive fish flakes (optional)

Preparation

This is a lovely dish, great for any meat or vegetable curries accompanied with rice and also well suited to Western beef dishes. Or serve in a sandwich or a roti wrap with chicken.


Cut tomatoes in half, then slice thinly. Set aside.

Soak all ingredients exept tomatoes in lime juice for half an hour. This takes the raw flavour out of the onion and gives the dish a pickled flavour.

When it is time to serve, add the tomatoes, toss through and serve in a beautiful glass bowl.


If you enjoyed this Tomato and onion sambol recipe then browse more Sri Lankan recipes, side dish recipes, sauce and dressing recipes, vegetarian recipes, easy recipes, quick recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

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Comments (2)

   
26 Dec 2011 05:57 AEST
dylan prins
st clair
hidden recipies?
why are all these older recipies hidden now that the peter k's recipies are featuring? I hope that wasnt intentional. *if you look under sri lankan cuisine you can only see new recipies from the show and not these great older ones which ive been referring to whilst travelling around! hope everyone else can still find these ones too
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07 Jun 2011 02:18 AEST
Craig
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