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Sabalu (spicy tomato sauce)

A raw or lightly cooked sauce of tomatoes, onions and chillies, brightened with lime. It goes with almost every dish in East Timor and takes just minutes to make.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Spices & seasoning

Nutrition facts

65 kcal per serving

Protein
1.3 g
Carbohydrates
4.6 g
of which sugars
4 g
Fat
4 g
of which saturated fat
0.5 g
Fiber
2.1 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

  1. Cut the tomatoes into small dice, removing as much juice as you like if you prefer a thicker sauce.
  2. Finely slice the red onion and the chillies, removing the seeds for a milder sauce.
  3. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
  4. Add the lime juice, salt and a little pepper, then stir well.
  5. Leave to rest for 10 minutes so the flavours blend, then serve at room temperature.

Variations and tips

Grilled version. Pass the tomatoes and chillies under the grill for 5 minutes until the skins blacken, then peel and mash them before seasoning.

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