Javanese cooking is so fresh, friendly and uncomplicated. Sayur lodeh was my favourite lunch dish. So delicious, these fresh vegetables are braised in a lot of coconut milk with spices. Vibrant and creamy from the coconut but so light and fresh from the verity of vegetable. Recipe to share.
Sayur Lodeh - Javanese Cooking
Spiced Vegetables cooked in Coconut Milk
The Recipe:
Spiced Vegetable Cooked in Coconut milk
Ingredients
1 eggplant, diced
A ½ cup of diced pumpkin
1 red chilli, sliced thinly
1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon light soy*
A sliced of galangal
1 daun salam-Javanese bay leaf
1 teaspoon dried prawn
(you can get it from the Chinese store)
I use my own roasted prawns head
1 teaspoon salt
1teaspoon sugar
(a slice palm sugar)
400 mil of coconut milk
200 mil of water
*I use light soy instead of Tempe - bosok (fermented Tempe)
Method
Leave the cooking pot open throughout the cooking process.
Place the coconut milk in a cooking pot, add 200 mils of water, and add in the spices
Cook the spices in coconut milk over low heat, and bring it to a simmer.
Add in the eggplant, keep on cooking over low heat, and bring it to a gentle simmer again.
After cooking the eggplant for 10 minutes add in the pumpkin and continue cooking until tender
Put the beans to the last 7 minutes cooking, all the vegetables should be tender but not too sloppy
Pour into a serving bowl, serve the sayur lodeh with steamed white rice.
To serve: serve as a side dish,
Traditionally it serves with steamed white rice and other garnishes.
Garnishes: Tempe goreng Masak bawang, (fried Tempe with garlic) Daging empal (double cooked beef), Telur goreng (fried egg) and Crackers (rice crackers, or prawn crackers)
I will share the recipes of garnishes next time soon.
the essential vegetable of sayur lodeh is eggplant
Ingredients And The Cooking Process
light soy, palm sugar, roasted prawns head
Salam leaf, onion, garlic, and galangal
chopped eggplant, chopped pumpkin, green beans
and the roasted prawn head in oil
Coconut milk with all species except the prawn head
cooking the vegetables in the coconut milk
after about 25 minutes in a very gentle simmer
the last minutes cooing, add the beans
and the juice/oil from the roasted prawns' heads
cooked sayur lodeh
steamed white rice with sayur lodeh garnished
with fried Tempe with garlic
I am home if I have this food, so delicious such a comfort food. Love it
Enjoy Cooking
Susy
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