Cuisine

Gado Gado

Indonesian vegetable salad. The vegetables used below are only a suggestion, you can use nearly anything that is available to you. Do use at least 4 different vegetables.

Ingredients:

• White Cabbage, diced.
• Green beans
• Bean sprouts
• Carrots
• 2 Eggs, hard boiled.
• Peanut Sauce.
• Tomatoes.
• Prawn crackers.

Preparation:

• Seperatly boil all the vegetables lightly.
• Drain and arrange in layers on a dish. Pour the Peanut Sauce over this.
• Decorate with the sliced egg and tomatoes.
• Just before serving, sprinkle the crackers over the sauce. Best enjoyed when salad is cooled down slightly.

Nasi Goreng

Nasi Goreng, Indonesian fried rice. This dish can be enjoyed by itself or as the basis of a larger meal, for example with a rijsttafel. It is very easy to make and won't take more than 20 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:

• 350 gr. Long Grain Rice
  
• 2 Tbs. Vegetable Oil
  
• 3 Eggs
  
• 1 Onion
  
• 2 Green Chillis, Sambal Ulek or Sambal Badjak.
  
• 1 Garlic Clove
  
• 1 Leek
  
• 1 teaspoon Ground Coriander
  
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin
  
• 250 gr. Chicken meat
  
• 250 gr. Shelled Prawns
  
• 3 Tbs. Kecap Manis

Preparation:

This dish is best made from cold leftover rice, but you can cook a fresh batch and leave it to cool for at least 4 hours.

Beat the eggs and make into a omelette, slice into strips and set aside.

Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan. Add the chopped onion, leek, garlic and chillis. Fry until the onion is soft.

Add the Coriander and Cumin. Slice Chicken into strips and add with the prawns to the onion mixture and cook, stirring occasionally until they are well mixed. Add the rice, soya sauce and omelet strips and cook for a further 5 minutes.Decorate with some of the leftover leek and serve hot. Enjoy.

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Beef Rendang

Spicy Indonesian beef dish in a almost dry coconut sauce. Suitable as a main or side dish.

Ingredients:

• 500 gr. Rump steak.
• 2 Onions.
• 4 Garlic cloves.
• 3 Fresh red chillies.
• 2½ cm Ginger root.
• 1 teaspoon Turmeric.
• 1 tablespoon Paprika.
• 1 stalk Lemon grass.
• 3 Lime leaves.
• 600 ml Coconut milk.
• 75 ml water.

Preparation:

Put the Onions, Garlic, Chillies, Ginger, Paprika, Turmeric and Water in a food processor and make into a smooth paste.

Dice the meat and mix with half the paste. Set aside.

Put the other half of the paste into a heavy sauce pan and add the coconut milk, chopped lemon grass and lime leaves. Boil without the lid for about 30 min. until mixture is reduced to half. Add the meat mixture and return to boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered, stirring regulary, for a further hour till the steak is tender. Serve with boiled rice.

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Sambal Goreng Telor

A traditional Indonesian egg dish served with a meal.

Ingredients:

• 5 Eggs
• 2 Tablespoon Oil
• 3 Shallots
• 2 cloves Garlic
• ½ teaspoon Trassi
• 1 red pepper
• 2½ cm Galangal root
• 1 Bay or Salam leaf
• ½ teaspoon Tamarind paste
• 2 teaspoons Sugar
• ½ cup Coconut milk
• 100 gr. Shrimps

Preparation:

Hard boil eggs for 10 minutes. Heat oil in Wok or frying pan.

Fry diced Onion, Garlic, Trassi, Pepper and Galangal slowly for 10 Min.

Add Bay leaf, Tamarind, sugar, Coconut milk and ½ cup of water and cook for 5 min. Add shrimps and slow cook for a further 5 min. Peel the eggs and heat through in the sauce. Slice eggs in halve lengthwise and arrange on dish.

Pour hot sauce over eggs and serve.

Source: www.indochef.com