Vegetarian Sambal 2

Another version of vegetarian sambal that has more ingredients.   The previous one [Vegetarian Sambal I] has no carrots and uses fresh red chillies with calamansi lime juice.   This one uses chilli paste [from dried chillies] and tamarind slices.  Both are as good.  You can squeeze in so lime juice for more tangy  taste.

Ingredients
[recipe adapted from Kuali.com with slight modification]

300 gm chilli paste

75 ml oil

75 gm sugar

1 tsp salt

15 gm tamarind slices

4 slices galangal [wild ginger]
extra lime juice - optional

Blend together

3 red chillies

6 bird eye's chillies

1 stalk lemongrass

10 g fresh tumeric

100 gm tomato [about 1 medium  size]

70 gm carrot [1/2 a medium size carrot]

1. Heat oil in wok and add in the blended spice paste.  Fry until fragrant.
2. Add in chilli paste and fry until oil separates.  Add in tamarind slices, galangal, sugar and salt to taste.  Stir fry until fragrant.
3. Dish out to cool before storing in glass container. 
4. Add extra lime juice if preferred before serving with rice, noodles etc with raw vegetables like cucumber or four angled beans.
   
   
   
   
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