Asian Vegetable Dishes Recipes - Indonesian Tangy-Flavored Vegetable (Sayur Asam) Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups stock/water

• 5 blimbing masam/finger carambola/sour pickles (halved)

• 3 oz. (90 g.) whole young com

• 2 oz. (60 g.) peanuts (blanched & skinned)

• 1/4 lb. (125 g.) pumpkin (peeled & sliced)

• 4 daun salam/2 bay leaves

• 1-inch (2.5.cm.) piece laos/galangal (crushed)

• 1/4 lb. (125 g.) unripe nangka/jackfruit (peeled & sliced)

• 2 oz. (60 g.) kacang panjang/long beans (evenly sliced)

• salt to taste

• a few daun blimbing masam/finger carambola leaves

• 4 green chilies (seeded)

• 2 pieces asam gelugur/dried tamarind slices

• 1 tablespoon kicap asin/light soy sauce

Ground Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon gula Jawa/palm sugar

• 6 shallots

• 2 cloves garlic

• 1-inch (2.5-cm.) piece terasi/dried shrimp paste (dry-fried)

• 3 buah keras/candlenuts

Serves 4-6

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Method:

1. Heat stock or water on medium flame. Add carambola or pickles, corn, peanuts and pumpkin.

2. Add ground ingredients, salam or bay leaves, galangal and salt to taste. Simmer till vegetables are tender.

3. Add remaining ingredients and simmer till cooked. Adjust seasoning. Remove from flame. Discard leaves, galangal and tamarind slices.

4. Serve hot with boiled white rice.