Coconut Sambal For Dosa | Easy Red Chili Sambal Grinder
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Serves: 3 People
 
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Ingredients
  • Dried red chili - 10 to 15
  • Grated coconut - 100g
  • Onion - 30g
  • Curry leaves - Few
  • Split skinned black gram/Urad dal - 1 teaspoon
  • Fennel seeds - ¼ teaspoon
  • Mustard seeds - ¼ teaspoon
  • Very thick tamarind juice - 1 ½ teaspoons
  • Water - 100ml
  • Cooking oil - As you need
  • Salt - As you need
Instructions
  1. Get ready with grated coconut, salt, and dried red chilies.
  2. Chop the onions, curry leaves, and one or two red chilies. Get ready with mustard seeds, fennel seeds, and urad dal. (Refer Note 1)
  3. Extract very thick tamarind juice and take some ordinary water.
  4. Now add dried red chilies and salt to the grinder. Grind them together to smooth powder. (Refer Note 2)
  5. Add grated coconut and water. Grind them again until all mix together well enough. Keep it aside for final preparation.
  6. Heat the oil in a frying pan and add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.
  7. Add chopped onions. Cook until the onions turn translucent.
  8. Now add chopped curry leaves and dried red chili. Stir and fry for 30 seconds under medium flame.
  9. Add urad dal. Stir and fry until the onions turn to little brown color. It may take about 1 minute.
  10. Finally, add fennel seeds. Stir and fry for 30 seconds.
  11. Now add the ground mixture and mix everything.
  12. Turn off the flame and add thick tamarind juice.
  13. Mix everything well and taste the sambal. Adjust salt if needed.
  14. Serve and enjoy this Sri Lankan style coconut sambal for dosa with red chilies.
Notes
Note 1: I used small onions or shallots because those are tastier than large ones. If it is hard to find shallots, you can use large chopped onion.

Note 2: Basically, Sri Lankans love to eat spicy foods. If you don’t like more spiciness, you can reduce the number of red chilies.
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