spiced Sambal egg ( sambal goreng telur ) indonesian recipes

spiced Sambal egg ( sambal goreng telur ) indonesian recipes

Ingredients:

5 Eggs, hard-boiled and Sliced into halves

2 tbsp Peanut oil

1 medium Onion, chopped

2 Cloves garlic, chopped

1 Candlenut, grated

1 tsp Laos (galangal)

1 tsp Sambal Ulek (Look for Sambal Ulek Recipe in my recipe list to learn how to prepare it)

Salt to taste

½ tsp Brown sugar

1 Salam leaf

1 cup Coconut milk

How to make:

Place the sliced eggs in a serving dish.

In separate pan, heat up peanut oil.

Saute onion, garlic, candlenut, laos (galangal), sambal oelek and salt.

Be cautious to avoid burning.

Add brown sugar, salam leaf and coconut milk.

Bring mixture to boil and then simmer for 10 minutes.

Pour mixture over hard-boiled eggs and serve.

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Rice Rolls with chicken Filling ( Lemper ) Indonesian recipes

Rice Rolls with chicken Filling ( Lemper ) Indonesian recipes

Ingredients :

500g (1lb) glutinous rice

2 cups water

1 cup thick coconut milk

250g (8oz) finely chopped chicken

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground black pepper

2 tablespoons oil

2 cloves garlic, crushed

2 curry leaves

2 teaspoons ground coriander

1 teaspoon ground cumin

½ teaspoon ground turmeric

½ teaspoon dried shrimp paste (trasi)

squeeze of lemon juice

squares of banana leaf or aluminium foil

How To Make:

Wash rice and drain. Put into saucepan with water and bring to the boil. then turn heat very low, cover pan tightly and steam for 15 minutes.

Mix ¾ cup of the coconut milk with ½ cup of water in a small saucepan and heat without boiling. Add to rice, stir gently with a fork, cover and steam for 5-10 minutes until coconut milk is absorbed. Leave to cool.

Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a wok or medium sized saucepan, and fry the garlic and curry leaves for 1 minute.

Add ground spices and trasi and fry, stirring, for a minute longer, crushing the trasi with a spoon. Add the chicken and fry until the colour changes and it no longer looks raw.

Add reserved ¼ cup coconut milk and simmer uncovered on a low heat until well cooked and quite dry.

Add lemon juice to taste, check seasoning and add more slat and pepper if required. Cool.

Take a large tablespoon of rice and flatten on a piece of banana leaf till 12mm (½ inch) thick.

Put a good teaspoonful of rice of the filling in the middle and mould the rice around it into a cylindrical shape.

Roll up in the banana leaf and secure with wooden toothpicks, or roll in the foil to make a neat parcel.

These parcels can be heated over a barbeque or steamed for 15 minutes, then allowed to cool again.

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Javanese Sweet Chicken in Spicy Sauce ( semur ayam jawa ) indoneisan recipes

Javanese Sweet Chicken in Spicy Sauce ( semur ayam jawa )

Ingredients:

1 chicken

4 onions

2 cloves garlic

2 red lomboks (large chilies)

2 tbsp kecap manis (dark sweet soy sauce)

1 lime (juice)

3 cloves

250 ml chicken stock (see recipe)

salt to taste

3 tbsp oil

How TO Make:

1. Cut the chicken into large pieces.

2. Cut the onions and the garlic fine.

3. Slice the lomboks into small rings.

4. Rub the chicken in with the kecap and the lime juce.

5. Heat in a wok the oil and fry the chicken golden brown.

6. Then add the remainig ingredients and let it simmer slowly for 30 minutes until its cooked.

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Cow's Foot Curry ( Gulai Kikil ) indonesian recipes

Cow's Foot Curry ( Gulai Kikil ) indonesian recipes

Ingredients:
1 Foot of cow
4 cups Coconut milk
1 Turmeric leaf
2 seed of False mangosteen ( Common english name for "Asam Kandis").  It's also called "Gamboge tree", "Eggtree", "Sour mangosteen", "Cochin-goraka".
2 Kaffir lime leaves
1 stalk Lemongrass


Blended spices:
1 tbsp Blended red chilies
2 cm Turmeric
5 pcs Candlenuts
2 cm Laos / Galangal
6 cloves Garlic
10 pcs Shallots

How To:
1. Clean the cow's foot and its hair, cut into several pieces and cook until tender.
2. Remove the bones and then cut the meat into small sizes according to your preference.
3. Cook the coconut milk together with the blended spices, kaffir lime leaves, kandis acid (false mangosteen) and the lemongrass.
4. Add the meat pieces and cook until the coconut milk thickens and oily.
5. Keep stirring until it's well cooked to prevent the coconut milk from dissolving.
6. Lift.

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Coconut Curry Vegetable (sayur lodeh) indonesian recipe

Coconut Curry Vegetable  (sayur lodeh) indonesian recipe

Coconut Curry Vegetable  (sayur lodeh) indonesian recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 head cabbage

2 carrots

1/2 turnip

250gr firm tofu

1 1/2 cups cut green beans

1 1/2 cups coconut milk

2 cups water

Spice blend:

2 tablespoon chili paste

2 teaspoon shrim paste (belacan)

2 mediums onions

4 garlic cloves

2 stalks lemongrass

17 small dried shrimp, soaked in hot water to soften

1 inch fresh ginger

1 teaspoon corriander powder

1 teaspoon turmeric

1 teaspoon cumin

1 tablespoon chili powder

4 tablepsoon oil

Preps:

Chop all the spice blend ingredients and add them to the blender, except.

the chilli powder. Blend it into a paste.

Combine coconut milk and water to form "thin coconut milk". Cut all the.

vegetables into small cubes and sticks.

After all the spices are blended, add chilli powder according to your.

tastes. Fry it in oil till the oils in the paste ooze out. Don't burn it...

Add thin coconut milk and bring it to a gentle boil. Dump in all the.

vegetables and tofu and simmer it till the vegetables are tender. Add salt to taste.

Serve Sayur Lodeh with hot rice.

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