Sri Lankan Sambols

Jaffna style Sambol

https://youtu.be/rBEf4xRjq34?si=qILh4yhbsGEcoMKZ

½ a grated coconut 

10 Dried red chillies - 

Shallots - 4-5 quartered 

Curry Leaves

Coconut Oil - 2 tablespoons 

Small piece of ginger

Lemon

Salt 

Heat coconut oil

Fry dried chilli 

Now add Shallots, Curry leaves and fry more - don't burn

Drain and put it in pounder

Add ginger pieces

Salt

Pound it together until rough paste

Now add coconut - pound until mixed well

Squeeze lemon

Taste and adjust salt

Gowri Ruban's Sri Lankan Sambol in grinder

½ a grated coconut 

Dried red chillies - 

12 Shallots - 10 

Oil - 2 tablespoons 

Salt 

Fennel seeds - ½ teaspoon 

Tamarind soaked in hot water Curry leaves


Fry dried chilli in oil - take out and grind

soak half of the shallots in oil

Grind in grinder by adding the ingredients one by one 

Add tamarind water in last step

Anchovy Sambol

https://youtu.be/qyv1Ikn9F-o?si=S9w6fXPX0wKP2AJ9


Add everything in grinder and grind. Add Tamarind water as last step

Anchovy Coconut Sambal ingredients: Dried anchovies - 1 handful A small desiccated coconut Red chilli flakes - 4 teaspoons (in total) Small Coconut pieces Small onions - 2 Some curry leaves

Half of lime Some salt

Soak anchovies in hot water

Drain after 5 minutes

Add more hot water and soak for 10 minutes.

Break off anchovy heads and dry them on paper towel

Heat oil, fry the anchovies until brown and crisp

Drain on paper towel

Add fried anchoives in pounder

Add Chilli powder - thai

Add dissected coconut

Pound more

Now add chopped onion soaked in anchovy oil

Pound

Add rest of onion/shallot, curry leaves and half of lime juice, salf

Pound until it is roughly ground - taste adjust the heat and salt

Mark Wein's Pol Sambol

To make this pol sambol recipe, here are ingredients you'll need (makes 1 bowl): 200 grams of freshly grated coconut 1 red onion 6 cloves of garlic 2 limes 1/2 spoon of salt 2 spoons of chili powder This is of course a rough estimate of what you'll need, you of course need to taste test frequently as mentioned in the video to make sure it tastes exactly the way you want it to. Finely dice the red onion and garlic and add them into a bowl along with the coconut. Add salt, chili powder and lime juice and begin working the ingredients together with your hands. Keep mixing until the pol sambol turns to an orange color and is even throughout. Make sure you use your hands to mix, it's much easier and works a lot better! Make sure it's slightly sour, salty enough and has a nice little kick from the chili powder. Pol sambol is a garnish for other Sri Lankan food, but can also be eaten just with a stack of roti's (paratha breads) or even just a loaf of bread as I demonstrated in the video.

https://youtu.be/xD7KUpJ_eK0?si=PPSfosSyOIS1iSVa