Javanese Dishes

These are the pictures of various dishes based on Javanese cooking, my heritage, delicious and beautiful recipes from Java.  The authentic flavours are there, but the presentation may be ' new ' and different.

Recipes and how to cook them will be posted shortly.

Pictures are Randomly Taken from My File.

Arem-Arem is stuffed steamed rice rolled with savoury meat filling.  Cut-sliced when it is cold, served for snaking.

Arem-Arem  Daging Ayam
Stuffed rice rolled with spicy chicken

The Cooking

The traditional arem arem is made of plain steamed white rice instead of turmeric rice.  

I do them as well, but with the turmeric rice, it looks pretty, and the taste of the turmeric with this filling is so right.

Other Dishes 

Sweet and Savoury

Wajik

Made from glutenous rice and is sweetened either with gula jawa -coconut sugar or cane sugar Cooked in coconut milk, sliced when it is cold.  Served as a snack with tea.

Wajik sweetened with sugar cane (pink) and palm sugar (brown)

Klepon

Made from glutenous rice.  Stuffed balls glutenous rice powder with coconut sugar, poached and rolled in freshly grated coconut, and sprinkle with icing sugar to serve.

Resoles

A pan-fried pancake rolled with braised meat and vegetable filling

Vegetables

Salad - Lotek

Oseng Oseng Bunces

Saute Green Beans with hot chillies 

Oseng Oseng Terong

Saute Eggplants

Tahu Guling

Tofu with vegetables in spicy Sweet Soy

Meat  and Side Dishes

Empal is double cooked beef, first it is braised with aromatic spices, then fried in deep oil.

Empal

Keringan

Hot and Spicy mixed Nuts and Tempeh

Telur gulung-Egg rolled with cabbage.

Ayam Goreng

Double Cooked Fried Chicken

 Tahu Bacem

Pan-fried Tofu, after braised with sweet soy

Rice Dishes

Nasi Kuning dan Lauk Pauk

Yellow Rice with Garnishes

Nasi Tumpeng dengan sayur, telur pedas

Rice cone with salad and hot egg curry

Nasi Putih dan Lauk pauk

Steamed White Rice with Garnishes.

Sayur Lodeh

Braised vegetables in coconut milk

Bakmi Kuning

(Yellow noodles-turmeric flavoured)

Cooking Glutenous Rice

Soak the rice in water overnight, prepare the following morning

to add some desiccated coconut and water, boil until the liquid is absorbed.  Add some coconut milk, salt and white sugar,  mix together, cover the pot, cook over low heat.

Now you have a delicious, moist, shiny glutenous rice.

Yellow Rice with Garnishes
Nasi Kuning with accompaniment (not traditional)

Nasi Rames
Steamed white rice with garnishes (empal, hot chicken leg, sweet
sauteed tofu, egg in spiced coconut milk and mixed vegetables
with desiccated coconut dressing)

You have seen some of the pictures from the previous posts and also the recipes, but new cooking and the recipes are coming soon.  Stay Tuned


Thanks for Visiting
Susy