The Food Of Hell From Indonesia
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. Sambal can be served raw or cooked depending people's own taste.
There are so many varieties of sambal that depends on the chillies used, other added ingredients, texture, and also region in which it is made. In Indonesia itself there are so many kind of sambal. There are Sambal Teri, Sambal Petai, Sambal Matah, Sambal Terasi, Sambal Kecap, Sambal Kacang and many more.
Variety of sambal
There are so many unique sambal in Indonesia like Sambal Mangga that using mango as the ingredients and Sambal Matah that doesnt grind well.
Most people in Indonesia make the Sambal freshly-prepared in order to keep its freshness and flavor. Today some brands of prepared, prepacked, instant, or ready-to-use sambal are available in warung, traditional markets, supermarkets and convenience stores. Most are bottled sambal, with a few brands available in plastic or aluminum sachet packaging.
Bottled sambal.
Infamous among tourists for its spiciness, many tourists avoid it. However, some of them are challenged and try to eat it. Nowadays, many of the tourists come to Indonesia just to try sambal. They also packed it and took it home.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. Many locals cant eat without it because of their habit.
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2. a. The ingredients are grinded using traditional tool made usually from wood or plastic.
- Its wrong because the traditional tool made from stone or wood. Plastic isnt the right material for traditional tool for grinding the ingredients of sambal.
b. Sambal is made by grinding ‘cabai’ or chili, along with several complements such as onion, cherry, tomato, ‘terasi’, sugar, and salt.
- The wrong thing about this line is that cherry isnt the complements of Sambal in Indonesia. Cherry might be the ingredients for sambal, but not here in Indonesia. So cherry is wrong for complements. But in Indonesia, sometimes people use cherry tomato for sambal. But it is 'Cherry Tomato' not only cherry, i mean Cherry fruits.
c. The texture is smooth with a vibrant color of green and red, depending on which chili you use.
- Not all sambal is smooth, to be example, Sambal Matah.
d. Though super spicy, locals eat it in almost daily basis as their main meal.
- Sambal isn't their main meal. Its just an extra and their main meal is rice.
