Serves 4 This is a dessert that most of Indonesian children loves, Pacar Cina sweet porridge. These are colored tapioca pearls with coconut milk. In Javanese traditional market they combine this with biji salak and sweet rice flour porridge called bubur sum sum. I got some sent from my mother and my daughters always asked…
“Bacem” is a method of marinating chicken, tofu and tempe with some spices, coconut sugar and sometimes coconut water. Coconut sugar is very expensive so you can substitute with brown sugar/palm sugar and kecap/sweet soy sauce instead. This is a typical cuisine from central Java. Tempe and tahu bacem can be eaten as snacks together…
Wow, it is December again already and we are heading for the new year. Time flies so fast when you have too many things on your plate. Today, will be the last batch of the second relish series and we are making Tempe Penyet, an authentic Javanese relish. The dish consist of fried tempe and…
Serves 3 “Sate Kambing”, sate of goat meat is one of Indonesian favorite dish. These sate’s are sold in night stalls and it uses sweet soy sauce relish. Goat meat are not available here in Sendai so I substitute it with lambs meat. To tenderize the meat, I added starch in the marinate. The sate…
Serves 3 This dish reminds me of first grade elementary school. It was my favorite thing to buy during lunch time together with ice tea or some syrup drinks. I still remember that it cost Rp.75,- at that time. Writing this, I imagine that if I our leaders and its minister orchestrate their administration properly…
Serves 2 This is a Javanese version of curry. Served with fried glass noodles, carrot, green onion and fried shallots. A bowl of rice will go with the dish. This is a special recipe from my past grandmother and it sure does taste well and is beautiful too. Ingredients: a bag of glass noodles 1…
Serves 4 As a gratitude to our Japanese mother and our mother, we arrange a special dinner. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to survive during the most difficult period of our life. In this occasion, we prepared a special menu usually for important family parties. ‘Selat Solo’, a Dutch influenced dish that had integrated…
Serves 4 At night, there will be seller with carts selling cooked on the spot food with a big wok. It is usually fried rice, noodles, vermicelli or cap cay. Some of the sellers is influenced by Chinese cooking, some Japanese but mostly just spiced it up with cheap chili sauce and cheap sweet soy…
Serves 3 For celebrations or ‘syukuran’ in the Indonesia culture, we have our ‘Tumpeng’. Yellow or White rice formed into a mountain shape then decorated with assorted side dish and vegetables carvings. This derives from the Javanese culture. The rice symbolizes mountains, where in the past, the indigenous people gave offering to the Gods by…
Serves 4 Tempe Mendoan, is tempe marinated and battered in spices rice flour mixture and deep fried. The dish originates from Banyumas. This is usually found in small coffee stalls eaten with fresh bird eyes chili or in Javanese restaurants served with sambal kecap. They usually serve it not to crispy but at home we…
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