Sambal

Famous as one of the best tropical countries, Indonesia provides tons of uniqueness and excitement. Its nature, culture, and art always bring millions of tourist each year. However, this time we are going to talk about one thing, Indonesia’s cuisine, in particular Sambal.

Sambal or sambel is infamous among tourist as the food of hell for its undeniable ability to make the consumer produces tears and sweat when eating. Produced using chili as its main ingredient, sambal is indeed taste extremely spicy.

Sambal is made by grinding ‘cabai’ or chili, along with several complements such as onion, cherry,  tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt. The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic. The texture is smooth with a vibrant color of green and red, depending on which chili you use.

Infamous among tourists for its spiciness, many tourists avoid it. However, some of them are challenged and try to eat it. Those who dare to try usually will get stomach ache or turn very red and sweaty in the face. Though super spicy, locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal.

For Indonesian, spicy foods have special spot in their hearts. Almost every provinces in Indonesia has hot, spicy dishes—and guess what, they are Indonesian’s all-time favorite. Padang, Manadonese, Bali cuisines are just a few of Indonesian’s signature spicy foods. Almost every area in Indonesia has specialty Sambal. Each area uses various ingredients to make hot, delicious, and visually appealing Sambal.
There are some variations of sambal. Sambal terasi is one of the most popular Indonesian sambal that you can find in almost everywhere. The raw Sambal is made from fresh chilies, tomato, terasi, and shallots. This sambal is perfect to be eaten with deep-fried fish, chicken, or duck and lalapan (assorted raw vegetables). But actually Sambal terasi goes right with every fried food 

..Should be erased :

1. The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic. plastic should be erased and change to stone. Because the traditional tool is not made by plastic. Plastic are modern tool.

2. Locals eat sambal in almost daily basis as their main meal. Sambal is not main meal, it just a complementary
3. Cherry. There is not sambal that made from cherry.
4. Tourist avoid sambals. actually, the tourist is curious and try to find it.



source : 12 Famous Sambal