Sweet Chili Sambal

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This sambal gets its sweet-tartness from a operation of tamarind and sugar, spiked with chili peppers and deepened with food sauce. It's large connected eggs, spooned implicit grilled food and arsenic a dipping condiment for gallic fries oregon successful spot of cocktail condiment for shrimp.

The condiment tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for respective weeks oregon frozen.

Adapted from "The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook," by Jaden Hair (Tuttle, 2009).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 cups

1 walnut-size portion tamarind pulp oregon 1 heaping tablespoonful tamarind paste
1/2 cupful blistery water
1 mean reddish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and coarsely chopped
2 ample poblano chile peppers, stemmed, seeded and coarsely chopped
3 ripe (red) jalapeño peppers, stemmed but not seeded, past coarsely chopped (may substitute greenish jalapeño peppers)
2 mean onion, coarsely chopped
8 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 1/2 cups peanut oregon rootlike oil
1/4 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
3 tablespoons food sauce
Ground cayenne pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per tablespoonful serving

Calories
52
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
2 g
Sodium
56 mg
Sugar
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook," by Jaden Hair (Tuttle, 2009).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published February 2, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026