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Indonesian Vegetable Sour Soup (Sayur Asam) Recipe by tfirdaus. This soup (Sayur Asam) is one of the most popular soup in Indonesia, particularly in East and Mid Java. Easy to cook and can be enjoyed with any complements, such fried chicken, fried tempe, fried tofu, steamed rice and sambal. Vegetables are cooked in Tamarind broth and other common Indonesian spices and herbs.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have indonesian sour soup - sayur asem using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:
- Prepare 1 handful dried peanuts
- Prepare 5 long beans, cut about 4 cm long
- Take 1 medium size chayote, cut cube
- Get 1 sweet corn, cut into desired size
- Prepare 200 gram jackfruit
- Get leaves Young melinjo
- Prepare Ground Spices
- Take 2 pcs big red chillies
- Take 6 shallots
- Take 4 garlics
- Prepare 3 candlenuts
- Make ready Other ingredients
- Prepare 1,5 Litre water
- Get Tamarind paste
- Prepare Indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
- Make ready 5 cm Galangal, smashed
- Take Salt, sugar
- Make ready Chilli padi (optional if you like spicy)
- Prepare Mushroom seasoning powder
Often referred to as tamarind soup, it is one of the favorite vegetable dishes in Indonesia. The entire dish is based on tamarind, an unusual plant commonly grown in Southeast Asia, which gives the dish a distinctive sour taste. 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.
Steps 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 🤩
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. The sour flavor also comes from the tomato. Sayur Asem or Sayur Asam means sour vegetables.
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