Asian Festive Dishes Recipes - Indonesian Vegetable in Coconut Milk (Masak Lodeh) Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups thin santan/thin coconut milk

• 3 cloves garlic (finely sliced)

• 4 shallots (sliced)

• 14 lb. (125 g.) cabbage (cut into chunks)

• 3 oz. (90 g.) petai/pungent green beans

• 14 lb. (125 g.) prawns (shelled, deveined & seasoned)

• or 2 oz. (60 g.) dried prawns (soaked, drained & pounded)

• 1 long terung/brinjal or aubergine (cut into cubes)

• 4 daun jeruk purut/curly lime leaves

• 4 half-ripe tomatoes (cut into wedges)

• 14 teaspoon monosodium glutamate

• 4 oz. (125 g.) French beans (stringed & halved diagonally)

• 3 red chilies (seeded & sliced slantwise)

• 1 cup thick santan/thick coconut milk

Pounded Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon ketumbar/coriander seeds (dry-fried)

• 1/2 teaspoon terasi/dried shrimp paste (dry-fried)

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1-inch. (2.5.cm.) piece ginger root

• 3 buah keras/candlenuts

Serves 4-6

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Method:

1. Strain thin coconut milk into a pan. Add garlic and shallots. Place on medium flame.

2. Bring to the boil, stirring. Add cabbage, pungent green beans and pounded ingredients. Reduce heat.

3. Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Bring to the boil again.

4. Add prawns, brinjals or aubergines and curly lime leaves. Boil for 2 minutes. Reduce heat and simmer till cooked.

5. Add tomatoes and monosodium glutamate. Simmer for 3 minutes, stirring. Reduce heat to low. Add French beans, chilies and thick coconut milk.

6. Bring to the boil, stirring. Remove pan from flame and adjust seasoning. Serve hot with boiled white rice.