Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem
Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem

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Vegetables are cooked in Tamarind broth and other common Indonesian spices and herbs. It's sour, sweet, and lightly spicy. The origin of this Indonesian vegetable tamarind soup or known as sayur asam/asem can be traced to Sundanese people of West Java, Banten and Jakarta region. Sayur asem, needless to say, is a favorite among many locals.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have indonesian sour soup - sayur asem using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:
  1. Prepare 1 handful dried peanuts
  2. Take 5 long beans, cut about 4 cm long
  3. Get 1 medium size chayote, cut cube
  4. Take 1 sweet corn, cut into desired size
  5. Make ready 200 gram jackfruit
  6. Get leaves Young melinjo
  7. Prepare Ground Spices
  8. Get 2 pcs big red chillies
  9. Take 6 shallots
  10. Take 4 garlics
  11. Take 3 candlenuts
  12. Take Other ingredients
  13. Take 1,5 Litre water
  14. Make ready Tamarind paste
  15. Take Indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
  16. Take 5 cm Galangal, smashed
  17. Take Salt, sugar
  18. Prepare Chilli padi (optional if you like spicy)
  19. Take 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.

Instructions to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:
  1. Boil water with dried peanuts first as peanut takes the longest to cook, until soft. Peanuts make the soup sweet
  2. Meanwhile, prepare all the ingredients for ground spices. Put garlic, shallot, chilli and candlenut in your blender to make a paste.
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. 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. Sayur Asem (Indonesian Tamarind Soup) is a vegetable soup dish that is made with tamarind paste to give sour flavor. The sour flavor also comes from the tomato.

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