Sambal oelek (ulek) — the most basic sambal. Red chillies and salt, pounded in the cobek. Nothing else. No garlic, no shallot, no terasi, no lime. JUST chillies and salt. The name comes from *ulekan* — the pestle — because the making IS the technique: pound until a rough paste forms.
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