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Sampling all the delicious Sri Lankan food is one of the joys of visiting the country. Food is not only affordable, but it’s extremely tasty. Many of the ingredients included the glorious coconut in some way or another.
While I ate a lot of food while I was in Sri Lanka, one of my favorite things was simple to make, yet packed with flavor, known as pol sambol. Pol sambol is a garnish made with freshly shredded coconut (the coconuts are not the young sweet coconuts but rather older tough coconut meat that used also to make coconut milk), chopped red onions, cloves of garlic, a squeeze of lime juice, salt and a generous amount of chili powder.
One of the reasons Sri Lankan food recipes can be so difficult to master is because there are not written rules, everyone must just taste test until the dish is perfect (unless of of course you have the motherly touch, which equals perfect culinary perfection).
To make this pol sambol recipe, here are ingredients you’ll need (makes 1 bowl):
200 grams of freshly grated coconut
1 red onion
6 cloves of garlic
2 limes
1/2 spoon of salt
2 spoons of chili powder
This is of course a rough estimate of what you’ll need, you of course need to taste test frequently as mentioned in the video to make sure it tastes exactly the way you want it to.
Finely dice the red onion and garlic and add them into a bowl along with the coconut. Add salt, chili powder and lime juice and begin working the ingredients together with your hands. Keep mixing until the pol sambol turns to an orange color and is even throughout. Make sure you use your hands to mix, it’s much easier and works a lot better!
Make sure it’s slightly sour, salty enough and has a nice little kick from the chili powder.
Pol sambol is a garnish for other Sri Lankan food, but can also be eaten just with a stack of roti’s (paratha breads) or even just a loaf of bread as I demonstrated in the video.
Be careful though, pol sambol is addictive and you’ll want to eat the entire bowl yourself and immediately make more to devour!
Enjoy!
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September 2019?
Watching 2019! ??
Delicious
i eat
I was in sri lanka back in may
I also fell in love with the coconut sambal
Absolutely addicting??
Polsambol?
Omg mark i dream about it too…love it!!!
U should put maldive fish chips
I think you like to eat very spicy ??
good food sri lanka..
Hi brother i am sir Lanka. I like you sampal?
I like food Tnkxx for this video
Same here .. last week i returned from thr
Hi mark it goes well with egg hoppers ?
Im addicted i just got back from SRI LANKA
Food is so Amazing!
I am from Sri Lanka and Mark I am one of ur followers I love the way your face lit up when u eat . Keep up the good work
Thank u broo visited for my country
We make this every 1-2 weeks as well! It’s so yummy 😀 and wow that was a whole lotta chilli in there!
That's our ultimate comfort food. Love from Sri lanaka !
I need to make this. and how did I guess that you were going to add more chili…hhaaha. looks yummy.
Tip: Toast your bread and spread a nice slab of butter on it. ?
mark…you great man….love from srilanka
This is great.
I actually eat it all by itself, because it's that good! Lol. ?
If you have a mortal and pestle and you ground it- similar to the way that som tam is made, it is even more delicious!!
wawooo ????
When I went to Sri Lanka I also enjoyed pol sambol and Sri Lankan dhal.the hospitality is awesome,our taxi driver invited us for a feast with his family
Mark wines do were doing it completely wrong,,, but you can make this way as well,, test different
Hahaha your dreams and mouth watering.
Omg!!! You are sooooooo sri lankan
I m telling ya.
So in love with you.
Btw I m from sri lanka .
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What about your hands , you don't get burning?
Love it! So good
Your acting was great in this video lol
It's amazing that so many dishes that require a minimum of ingredients and that are simple to prepare can be so satisfying
Fry it on a pan if you want keep it for several days but make sure not to add too much lime if you do it. And dont use oil to fry it because coconut has enough oil in it.??
¡jajajjajajaja! I was wathing your video of your recent visit to Sri Lanka, and you spoke about something made of coconut and I did not understand the name, so I googled Sri Lankan food and found the name, then I googled for recipes, and the first link, your recipe. Thanks Mark, you are making the world a greater place!!!!!!!!!!!!Greetings from Costa Rica.
One of the best food i have ever ate ..with bread ?
Pol sambol with roast paan ❤❤
I’m Sri Lankan and I eat pol sambol with bread and butter it’s delicious
Add some shredded maldive fish and pepper powder
Coconut sambol super ?????