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Prepare tamarind by placing it in a small bowl with warm water. To make spice paste, combine shallot, garlic, ginger, red chili pepper, raw peanuts, shrimp paste, and salt in a large mortar and blend well with a pestle. Use a food processor or blender if you don't have a mortar and pestle.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook indonesian sour soup - sayur asem using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:
- Take 1 handful dried peanuts
- Take 5 long beans, cut about 4 cm long
- Prepare 1 medium size chayote, cut cube
- Prepare 1 sweet corn, cut into desired size
- Get 200 gram jackfruit
- Prepare leaves Young melinjo
- Take Ground Spices
- Take 2 pcs big red chillies
- Make ready 6 shallots
- Get 4 garlics
- Get 3 candlenuts
- Take Other ingredients
- Prepare 1,5 Litre water
- Get Tamarind paste
- Prepare Indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
- Get 5 cm Galangal, smashed
- Take Salt, sugar
- Make ready Chilli padi (optional if you like spicy)
- Prepare Mushroom seasoning powder
Sayur Asem or Sayur Asam means sour vegetables. Sayur asem is basically a mix of vegetables cooked in a sour tamarind soup, giving it a refreshing, slightly-acidic flavour. According to legend, this dish originated in the Jakarta area during the Dutch colonial period. The story goes: during the Dutch Occupation, people in Batavia (the old name for Jakarta) were poor, and had to eat anything on hand.
Instructions to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:
- Boil water with dried peanuts first as peanut takes the longest to cook, until soft. Peanuts make the soup sweet
- Meanwhile, prepare all the ingredients for ground spices. Put garlic, shallot, chilli and candlenut in your blender to make a paste.
- After peanut is soft, put the spice paste, bayleaves, smashed galangal, tamarind paste, mushroom seasoning, salt, sugar. Put corn, jackfruits, chayote and cook until soft.
- Lastly put the long beans and young melinjo leaves the last as this vegetable just need a short time to cook. You can also add chilli padi in the soup (whole, no need to cut/mash for extra kick of spiciness)
- Adjust the taste. This soup should taste sour, spicy, with a nice balance of sweet and salty all mix together 😄 so refreshing and healthy too 🤩
Boil water , add grind mixture for soup base. add warm water in tamarind paste, squeeze abit to get the juice. set a side; Put peanuts,chayyote,cabbage and long bean cause this vegetable need time to cook. add sugar , salt , and tamarind paste water. let it boil till simmer and vege is soften in medium heat. Sayur Asem Sayur Asem is a very popular vegetable soup dish in Indonesian cuisine. It has mixed taste of sour, sweet and spicy. Several variations exist including Sayur Asem Jakarta (a version from the Betawi people of Jakarta), Sayur Asem Kangkung (a version which includes water spinach (kangkung)), etc. Sayur Asem is a popular Indonesian tamarind dish.
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