Spicy Coconut Sambol

This is a spicy Sri Lankan coconut sambol which is excellent with plain bread and butter or as a side dish with rice.

Ingredients

250g (1 cup) freshly grated coconut
1 tspn chillie power
2 tspn paprika or 1 dried red chillie
1/2 a red onion chopped coursely
1/2 tspn salt
1 tbsp lime juice (around 1/2 an average-sized lime)

Method

Pound together chopped onion, chillie, paprika (or dried chillie) and salt in a mortar and pestle until you get a reddish paste. Add pounded mixture to coconut and mix well until the grated coconut turns red in colour. Depending on how spicy you want it you could either add more chillie power or more grated coconut to increase or decrease the spicyness respectively.

Add the lime juice and mix well. Check for salt and add as necessary.