ORIGINAL PECEL MADIUN RECIPE, EAST JAVA INDONESIA

Madiun is a city in the western part of the province of East Java in Indonesia. This city have several old sugar factory that was build in dutch collonial.  Pecel is the famous food from this city then called Pecel madiun.

To present the Madiun pecel Rice is at least there are 4 components that must be considered.
1. Pecel Hot Peanut Sauce;
2. Vegetables: Swamp cabbage, Cabbage, mustard, mung bean sprouts, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, Kembang turi, Leaf kenikir, Duah winged bean.
3. Complement: Srundeng, Sambal Matches / Dry Tempe, peanut brittle or plates, beans and basil leaves lamtoro, could also be added cucumbers.
4. Side dishes: fried Tempe, Empal Meat, fried chicken, fried eggs, depending on taste alone.

Ingredients for Pecel Madiun:

1. 50 grams of watercress
2. 50 grams of beans
3. 50 grams bean sprouts, pour boiling water, remove and drain
4. 1 cucumber, diced
5. 3 sheets of cabbage, sliced ​​(irregular dice) 

Complement:

1. 1 tbsp red onion
2. Serundeng yellow coconut (toasted coconut spicy)
3. Dent beans (spicy rice crackers of flour)
4. white rice 

Pecel spice puree:

1. 2 curly red chilies
2. 1 pieces of red chili sauce
3. 1 /2 tsp roasted shrimp paste
4. 100 grams fried peanuts
5. 2 tablespoons brown sugar
6. 1 cm kencur (spices from Indonesia)
7. 1 / 2 teaspoon fine salt
8. 1 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced
9. 1 teaspoon tamarind
10. 100 ml lukewarm water 

How to Make:

1. Boil spinach and beans separately until cooked. Remove and drain
2. Pecel Seasonings: Roasted red pepper and cayenne pepper until wilted. Puree with a mortar together with shrimp paste, peanuts, brown sugar, kencur (spices from Indonesia), and salt. Add the lime leaves and tamarind water, Crush a minute, pour the water stir well. 
3. put all the vegetables on a serving plate, flush with spice pecel. serve with a complement.

INDONESIAN VAGETABLES SALAD RECIPE : GADO-GADO

Gado-gado is famous vegetables salad in Indonesia, you can easily found it. When translated in english Gado-gado means mixes. Gado-gado is is a one dish meal caused not only salad but also lontong (rice cooked in banana leaf).   Gado-gado has carbohydrate from lontong and potatoes. Tempeh, tofu and eggs are the protein sources. Gado-gado can be made for pescetarianisms or pesco vegetarianisms who still consume fish and seafood; it can also be consumed by lacto-ovo vegetarians who include eggs and dairy products in their diet. Also, you can go for vegan by omitting dried shrimp paste (Indonesian: terasi/trasi, Malay: belachan/belacan) in gado-gado sauce and shrimp cracker, and skipping the egg.

Ingredients:

Peanut Sauce
2 cloves garlic
10 g bird's eye chili (green chili)
20 g gula melaka
1/2 tbsp salt
100 g peanuts, deep-fried or roasted
1/2 tbsp kecap manis
Juice of 1/2 lime
1 cup water
Salad
200 g cabbage, sliced thinly
75 g bean sprouts, blanched briefly
250 g tofu, fried till golden and cut into cubes
1 medium cucumber, quartered and cut into 1/2 cm thickness
2 stalk Chinese celery, chopped finely
2 spring onion, chopped finely
10 g red and white crackers, deep-fried

Directions:

To make the sauce
Mix garlic, chili, gula melaka, salt and peanut in a food processor and grind coarsely.
Add lime and kecap manis, mix well.
Gradually add water and stirring at the same time, to a desired thickness.
To serve
Combine all salad ingredients in a big mixing bowl or individual plater.
Add sauce and serve immediately.

 

SUNDANESE SALAD RECIPE (KAREDOK RECIPE)

Karedok is popular dish from West Java province, Indonesia. It is exotic raw salad with distinct flavors, better for your stomach with good fiber.  Nice food for vegetarian.

Vegetables
* 100 g cucumber,
* 100 g bean sprouts
* 3 cabbage leaves
* 100 g string beans
* 25 g basil leaves

Sauce
* 2 red chilies
* 1 cloves garlic
* 5 small chilies
* 1/2 tsp kencur (lesser galangal / galingale)
* 200 g peanuts, roast
* 1 tbs tamarind juice
* 1 tbs palm sugar (or brown sugar)
* 1 tsp salt
* 1/2 tsp shrimp paste
* 1-2 tbs vinegar
* 150 cc hot water

Garnish
* fried gnetum chips

Directions:
1 Parboil beansprouts and string beans.
2 Slice cucumber, cut string beans into 3cm pieces, and chop cabbage leaves into
pieces.
3 Grind red chilies, garlic, small chilies, kencur, peanuts, palm sugar, salt shrimp
paste and vinegar in a blender.
4 Add tamarind juice and hot water into 3 and mix until smooth.
5 Mix all the vegetables and 4. Serves with fried emping on top.

RECIPE of KAREDOK (West Java Salad With Peanut Sauce)

Vegetables
* 100 gr cucumber,
* 100 gr bean sprouts
* 3 cabbage leaves
* 100 gr string beans
* 25 gr basil leaves

Sauce
* 2 red chilies
* 1 cloves garlic
* 5 small chilies
* 1/2 tsp kencur (lesser galangal / galingale)
* 200 g peanuts, roast
* 1 tbs tamarind juice
* 1 tbs palm sugar (or brown sugar)
* 1 tsp salt
* 1/2 tsp shrimp paste
* 1-2 tbs vinegar
* 150 cc hot water

Garnish
* fried emping (Gnetum) chips

Directions:
1 Parboil beansprouts and string beans.
2 Slice cucumber, cut string beans into 3cm pieces, and chop cabbage leaves into
pieces.
3 Grind red chilies, garlic, small chilies, kencur, peanuts, palm sugar, salt shrimp
paste and vinegar in a blender.
4 Add tamarind juice and hot water into 3 and mix until smooth.
5 Mix all the vegetables and 4. Serves with fried emping on top.

Mixed salad with Peanut Sauce and Fried Tofu

This recipe origin from Indonesia called ketoprak. 

Mixed salad with Peanut Sauce Recipe

Ingredients
150 g rice noodles, soaked in boilin hot water for 5 minutes and drained
200 g beansprouts, parboiled for 5 minutes and drained
10 x 5 x 5 cm squares of fried tofu, cubes
50 g fried shrimp krupuk
50 g fried onions
2 stalks of chinese celery

Peanuts sauce
150 g fried unsalted peanuts
3 red chillies
5 bird's eye chillies
3 cloves garlic
salt to taste
a pinch of sugar
5 Tbs sweet soy sauce
vinegar to taste
125 cc water

Instructions
- Prepare all the ingredients for the salad according to the instructions.
- Grind the peanuts fine together with the red chillies, bird's eye chillies, garlic, salt and sugar. Add the sweet soy sauce and the vinegar. Mix in the water and stir until everything is well-blended.
- Arrange the salad nicely on a big platter. Pour the peanut sauce over the salad.