Name: Mixed spice relish (Sambal Bajak)
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 1 cup thick santen (coconut milk); salt; 1 tsp brown sugar; 3 kemiri (candlenuts); 3 tbs vegetable oil; 5 cloves garlic; 5 slice terasi; 10 shallots; 10 red chillis

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is a hot relish, and to make it all the ingredients have to be pounded together. If you do this in a mortar, try to keep the mixture off your fingers as much as possible if you have sensitive skin; it is not only your tongue that can feel the effects of a strong chilli. Sambal Bajak will keep for a long time in an airtight jar, and lose none of its fierceness.