Seeni sambol

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| name = Seeni sambol

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| alternate_name = Seeni sambal, Sini sambol, Sawi sambol

| country = Sri Lanka

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| course = Condiments

| served = Room temperature

| main_ingredient = red onion/shallots, tamarind juice, chillies, salt, sugar

| variations = Maldives fish, curry leaves, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, lemongrass

| calories = 232

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Seeni sambol ({{langx|si|සීනි සම්බෝල }}, {{langx|ta|சீனி சம்பல்}}), also known as Sini sambol or Sawi sambol, is a traditional Sri Lankan condiment.{{cite book|title=Sri Lanka: The Cookbook|author1=Sivanathan, Prakash K.|author2=Ellawala, Niranjala M.|publisher=Frances Lincoln|date=2017|page=76|isbn=9781781012130}}{{cite book|title=The Wedding Season|author1=Dharmapala, Su|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2012|isbn=9780731815616}} It is a caramelised onion chutney or relish, with flavours which are spicy, sweet and aromatic.{{cite book|title=Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent|author1=Alford, Jeffrey|author2=Duguid, Naomi|publisher=Artisan Books|date=2005|page=30|isbn=9781579655655}}{{cite book|title=India, Sri Lanka and the SAARC Region: History, Popular Culture and Heritage|author=Bajpai, Lopamudra Maitra|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=2020|isbn=9781000205855}} It is served as an accompaniment to rice, curries, idiyappam (string hoppers) and appam (plain hoppers). It is an integral component of lamprais and seeni banis (a brioche bun with seeni sambol filling).

In Sinhala and Tamil, seeni means sweet or sugar and sambol means sauce.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka|first=Charles A.|last=Gunawardena|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|date=2005|isbn=9781932705485

|page=96}} The main ingredients are onion, sugar, tamarind juice, red chillies and salt, which can also be combined with Maldives fish, curry leaves, lemongrass, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.