SEENI SAMBAL

SEENI SAMBAL

Ingredients:
800 grms onions sliced.
500 grms Maldives fish..pounded to tiny bits, with a pestle.
6 tbs chillie paste
1 cup tamarind juice
1 cup coconut milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 star anise
few cloves
2 sprig curry leaves.
2 lemon grass braised
1 screw pine leaf cut into 2 inch length
2 tbs oil
salt to taste
sugar to taste.

Method:
Heat the oil and saute the spices before adding the lemon grass and screw pine leaves.
Once fragrant, add the onions and keep stirring.
When the onions turn brown, add the chillie paste.
Fry till oil rises, add the cleaned fish, and tamarind juice.
Allow the fish to cook, add salt and sugar.
Lastly add the coconut milk, and let it cook dry.

My own tip... soak the pounded fish in boiling water.
Wash and clean, to get rid of the smell.