Rujak (Hot, Spicy Fruit Salad)

Yield: 8 Servings
Categories: Salad
1Pomelo or ugli fruit or texas grapefruit (jeruk bali)
1/2Cucumber
1/2Pineapple
2Apples; granny smith or cox's (kedondong)
2Mangoes or slightly unripe pears
FOR THE BUMBU
1Cabe rawit (capasicum frutescens; hot peppers - those from an ornamental pepper tree; according to the author; thai hot peppers are probably okay)
1slGrilled terasi (a dark colored paste made from shrimp); optional
4ozGula jawa (the sugar mentioned below)
1/3Cooking banana (known as 'stone banana'; chopped up, skin and all; and has many small crunchy seeds inside it); optional
lgPinch of salt
1tbTamarind water (soak 1 oz of dried tamarind in about 1/2 pint water)
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