Sambel Goreng (Javanese Cooking)

Welcome back to Javanese cooking.  Today is about one of hot and spicy dishes.
Sambel goreng is one of the more popular dishes in Java.  It is braised meat, or vegetables with hot spices in coconut milk.

Once you know how to prepare the necessary spices and the sauce, you could cook the variations of sambal goreng at any time.

Sambel Goreng Kobis (Sambel Goreng Cabbage)

The cabbage is braised until tender and succulent.
Delicious sambal goreng kobis served hot together with other side dishes,
to complement steamed white rice.

Spices and Ingredients for the braising sauce of sambal goreng.

Red hot chillies, red capsicums, onions, garlic, tomato puree, candlenuts (for extra creamy), galangal, salam leaves, petai, coconut milk/cream.  Palm sugar and salt.  For extra red, add ground paprika and oil for shallow frying.

No candlenuts for sambal goreng kobis

Susy Sambel Goreng Kobis.

5 cups shredded cabbage

Spices

3 hot chillies, thinly sliced

1/2 cup sliced red capsicums

1 red onion, or large fresh shallots, thinly sliced 

2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced.
6 petai (available at the Asian grocery stores)

1 small sliced galangal, 1 salam leaf

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon grated palm sugar, or brown sugar.

1 tablespoon tomato puree

Other ingredients

1/2 cup coconut milk

1/2 cup coconut cream.

1 tablespoon dry paprika

2 tablespoons olive oil

Method

Slice all the spices thinly
Shallow fry the chilli and spices ingredients in a deep pot, until soft, put in the petai.
Add in the cabbage, toss and mix them together.
Stir in the coconut milk, cook in medium heat and bring it to simmer
Continue cooking for 10 minutes. Add in the coconut cream, stir and put the cover on. Continue cooking for another 10 minutes over lower heat.

Check the seasoning

Transfer to a serving plate.

Spices paste for sambal goreng.

Instead of slicing the herb and spices, you can make spice paste by blending or grinding all spices ingredients in a blender to make a smooth paste.  Use for cooking sambal goreng-beef, chicken, fish and eggs.

Mie goreng Putih
Stir fry rice noodles, Javanese style

To complement the hot dish, savoury dishes often are served, in my kitchen, delicious rice noodles dish is prepared, as it is my favourite dish.  Other savoury dishes are perkedel, egg rolls, egg noodles, terik telor (braised egg in mild coconut sauce) etc.

To Be Continued

Susy