Food Tastes Bland if It is Not Equipped with Chilli

Talking about Indonesian food is incomplete without mentioning sambal. Sambal is a food companion that cannot be separated from the tongue of most Indonesians. Sambal is a processed food made from chilli which gives a spicy and hot sensation on the tongue. For some people, the spicy sensation can add to their enjoyment when eating.

Whatever the food, you can't forget the sambal. Starting from white rice, chicken, meat, and various seafood, to fruit, will taste more delicious if you add chilli sauce. It feels like if you eat without chilli, it will taste bland and not delicious. For connoisseurs, without the presence of chilli sauce in food, it will reduce the taste and pleasure while eating.

If there is no chilli sauce, the food feels incomplete. Some people are even willing to not eat before getting chilli, as if they can't live without chilli. Sambal can make a person not stop eating. However, in addition to increasing appetite, it turns out that chilli sauce also provides health benefits. One of them is preventing anaemia and pain relief. With the presence of chilli sauce as a food companion, the taste of the food will increase and make people addicted to the spicy sensation.

Making chilli sauce is very easy and easy to try at home. The ingredients consist of cayenne pepper, red chilli, shrimp paste, shallots, and tomatoes. However, making delicious chilli sauce sometimes has to be a bit of a hassle, especially if you have to use traditional methods such as pulverizing. Love for chilli actually cannot be separated from home and hometown. In preparing the daily meal menu, there must be chilli that participates to add to the spicy taste that can't be missed.

Even when we eat a bowl of meatballs or chicken soup, the taste is incomplete if we don't add a few spoons of chilli sauce. Sambal also contains vitamin A and vitamin C.

But some people don't like chilli sauce, some even don't like chilli at all. Some people think that when we eat spicy food, including chilli sauce, it will cause an upset stomach.

Most eating chilli sauce is also not good for their health. Although there are many benefits of chilli that we can get, this does not mean we can eat chilli as we like. Eating too much chilli sauce can reduce the tongue's ability to taste other flavours.

Especially for those of you who have an ulcer, eating chilli sauce can also increase stomach acid which makes the stomach feel sore and hot. You may occasionally eat chilli sauce, but pay attention to the portion and understand your own body's capabilities. If your stomach starts to feel hot and sore, reduce the portion of the sambal for a while. Immediately consult a doctor if stomach pain does not go away.