Sambal terasi lemon cui - sambal terasi with calamansi

Ingredients

• 10 long red cayenne peppers (it can be substituted for 2 red bell peppers)
• 5 bird eyes chilies (more or less depend how spicy you want)
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 tablespoon terasi (dried shrimp paste)
• 1 salt
• 6 calamansis, squeezed and take the juice only

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Preparation

• Roast/toast everything except salt and calamansi juice. keep it in a jar and store the jar in the fridge.
• After the roasting process, ground/crush the pepper, chilies, and tomatoes. The best way to make sambal is using a pestle and mortar;
• Add salt calamansi juice and mix. Some people like to add a small amount of coconut/palm sugar or sugar.
• However, If you use red bell peppers, you will not need to add any sugar.

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