Variety Salad Dressing Traditional Indonesia in Peanut Sauce!
Indonesian cuisine is so rich and has many varieties that are spread throughout the archipelago. The uniqueness of the name, the selection of raw materials, how to process and taste culinary delights has been the hallmark of each region.
Speaking about the culinary, in Indonesia itself has a culinary-based vegetable become a popular healthy menu options. If usually in Western countries we find salads, it appears that Indonesia also has not lost its traditional salad is delicious and nutritious, you know.
In contrast to Western countries that process by mixing salad dressing style westerns, Indonesia has its own way for a culinary treat made from vegetable or fruit with peanut sauce dressing delights.
A traditional Indonesian salad in peanut sauce dressing this?
pecel
Vegetable dish smothered with a spicy peanut sauce spiced this is not foreign to the tongue Indonesian people, especially in Java. Pecel usually served as a main meal menu at the dinner table.
Rice or rice cake typically eaten with vegetables consisting of cassava leaves or kale, turi, beans and bean sprouts that have been boiled mature. Then doused with peanut sauce is thick and delicious. Not to forget the fries and peanut brittle join tempeh served to be eaten together with pecel.
Pecel madiun famous for vegetable cassava and peanut souce spicy flavor. Pecel in Indonesia itself has a range that can be said to have a different flavor or characteristic of pecel other areas, such as vegetable material used to flavor the beans seasoning. For example pecel of Madiun, East Java, which is famous from the vegetable uses of boiled cassava.
Rojak
Culinary made of a mixture of fruits and vegetables is very popular in almost all regions of Indonesia. rujak vary, there is a salad of shaved, salad of caramelized sauce, salad cingur, salad vinegar, mashed salad, salad paste and salad bride. However, the most popular is a fruit salad.
Each area itself has a variation in the content of rujaknya blends. Salad consisted of sliced assorted fresh fruit like yam, papaya, melon, star fruit, mango, pineapple, kedondong, and watermelon. As a complement to also add cucumber slices and fried tofu.
How to eat it can be mixed with herbs salad or simply dipped. Salad seasoning is what makes this salad a unique flavor. Made of fried peanuts, chili, salt, brown sugar, and a little shrimp paste are mashed up to create a sense of seasoning salad spicy and sharp.
Karedok
Here it is a very popular traditional salad in the tongue of Sunda in West Java. Unlike pecel vegetable stew in advance, all the vegetables in the dish karedok using fresh raw vegetables.
Vegetables which consisted of cabbage, cucumber, basil, bean sprouts, green beans, eggplant and lettuce mixed with peanut sauce that had mashed. Feeling fresh vegetables are felt on the tongue with a distinctive blend peanut sauce and favors from kencur mashed with chili, garlic, brown sugar, red chilli, fried peanuts and salt. Karedok will be more delicious with a diamond and prawn crackers.
lotek
Well this one is a traditional salad from Java. Almost similar to the karedok, only difference is how to cultivate vegetables that are boiled. Lotek using a vegetable similar to karedok with the addition of spinach and potato leaf as variations.
Lotek served with rice cake or rice with boiled vegetables smothered in peanut sauce. Peanut sauce taste in lotek also made almost the same as Karedok. As a complement, the culinary lotek is also equipped with a piece bakwan and fish crackers.
pecel Semanggi
Definitely staying in the City of Heroes have been familiar with traditional salad this one. Almost like culinary pecel, but different. How can?
Culinary simple contents of mature leaf clover and bean sprouts topped with spicy seasoning sauce is definitely favors. Chilli flavor is quite unique because it is made from peanuts, brown sugar, salt, chili with sweet potato mixture diuleg together.
Crackers culinary complement to eat this one. Who would have thought pecel clover that was once sold by way of a carried is apparently already in exports by pack it into the form of instant products.
Mixed vegetables with the peanut sauce
Javanese culinary dish that has become familiar to us. Vegetables consisting of potatoes, cabbage, beans, bean sprouts, carrots boiled, mixed with cucumber, lettuce and raw tomatoes.
All vegetables are then doused with peanut sauce. The sauce consisting of peanuts, garlic, chilli, lemon juice, salt mashed sometimes also added condiment or sauce for flavoring.
As a complement added usually boiled egg, crackers, chips, fried tofu and tempeh. This culinary delicious eaten alone as a salad or eaten with rice cake.
Of all the traditional salad wrapped in bean above have definite benefits and good nutrition and healthy for health. So, which of your favorite salad?
Let ne show you some pictures of them.
May it will make you wanna come to Indonesia
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