Sambal is an Indonesian chilli sauce or paste, typically made from a mixture of a variety of chilli peppers with secondary ingredients, such as shrimp paste, garlic, ginger, shallot, scallion, palm sugar, and lime juice.
Sambal is an Indonesian loan-word of Javanese origin (sambel).
It originated from the culinary traditions of Indonesia, and is also an integral part of the cuisines of Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka.
It has also spread through overseas Indonesian populations to the Netherlands and Suriname.