Asinan - Half Fruit and Half Vegetable Salad

ASINAN

Ingredients: 

½ pineapple (peeled)

½ cup cucumber (peeled)

1 white turnip (bangkuang) (peeled)

½ cup salted vegetables (hum choy)

½ cup cabbage (sliced thin)

1 cup bean sprouts

1-2 fresh long red pepper (med. hot)

Salt, sugar to taste

½ cup fried peanuts

Vinegar to taste (approx. 1 tbsp.)

Green plum (peeled & seeded) 

Grind red pepper, salt and sugar very fine. Coarsely grind ½ of the peanuts and mix with pepper paste. Combine the mixture with fruits and vegetables and remaining peanuts, and vinegar, mix lightly. Taste should be sour, sweet, and hot. Try it, you’ll like it. 

Dry Shrimp Salad

In bahasa we call it SALADA UDANG KERING

We need several kind of vegetables such as cabbage, carrot, cucumber, and tomatoes. Slice them finely     

Crush or grind “dry shrimp”with a pestle. Put aside.

Take 1 or 2 red chillies (or more), salt and sugar to taste, and lemon juice (squeezed from 1 lemon) and grind in pestle as above. Kix all together, put on a plate and decorate with tomatoes and chillies.

Yellow Sour Vegetable Soup

In Indonesian we call it SAYUR ASEM KUNING

Ingredients:

6 oz. beef (sliced into small pieces)

1 lb. young jackfruit

10 young Long Beans

2 ears of young corn or 1 small can whole kernel corn

1 handful of melinjo leaves and nuts (optional)

½ young Papaya

Oncom or 2 slices bean cake

Spice:

5 shallots

2 garlic clovers

5 macadamia nuts

½ “thumb” ginger

½ “thumb” turmeric root

5 green chillies

1 “thumb” galangal

2 bay leaves

Salt/MSG/1 tsp. tamarind

Boil beef in 2 pints of water for 30 minutes to 1 hour. When meat is tender add vegetables and fruit and green chillies; grind the 6 spices to a fine paste. Sauté ingredients, add to the stock . simmer for a little while until everything is cooked. Serve hot from a tureen. Use a ladle to serve.