Ingredients:
2 1/4 lb Red chillis
3 ts Salt
Instructions:
- The ulek-ulek is the implement you use to crush candlenuts, chillis, etcetera in a cobek.
- Sambal Ulek is made of chillis that have been crushed this way.
- This is a very basic sambal, which is useful to keep in quantity, so that you can use it for quite a lot of recipes which specify red chillis as one of the ingredients.
- As this sambal can be stored for at least 2 weeks in the refrigerator, it is worth while making quite a lot of it.
- But to crush the chillis in a cobek with the ulek-ulek is very laborious.
- A food processor is a great help here.
- Seed and chop the red chillis roughly, then put all these into a saucepan and half-fill the saucepan with boiling water.
- Boil the chillis for 8 minutes.
- Drain, and put them into the food processor, using the blade for mincing meat.
- Let the machine run for a minute or so.
- For Sambal Ulek you don't want the chilli paste to be too smooth.
- Put this sambal into a jar, stir in the salt, cover the jar tightly and keep in the refrigerator.
