Petai With Prawn Chili

Ingredients

150 g Peeled Petai

300 g Prawns, shelled and tail intact

1/2 Medium Red Onion, sliced

4 Tbsp Peanut Oil

1 Tbsp Sugar

1 1/2 Tbsp Lime Juice

2 Tbsp Water

Sea Salt to taste

Chili Paste

20 Dried Chilies, soaked and drained

5 Shallots, roughly chopped

2 cloves Garlic, chopped

2 Candlenuts

1 1/2 tsp Roasted Shrimp Paste (Belacan)

How to make:

Blend all the sambal ingredients until fine. Heat the oil, add the sambal paste and cook in a low heat until fragrant and set aside. Remove some of the oil from the pan.

Then turn the heat on high and add in the prawns and have a quick stir. Mix in the sambal paste and onion and stir briefly until the prawns begin to cook.

Add the petai, another quick stir and add in the sugar, lime juiced, water and some sea salt to taste. Serve immediately.

Taken From : http://indonesiafood.net

POMEGRANATE PUDDING

Ingredients

1 Packet 42.5 g (1.5 oz) Agar-Agar

12 cups of Water

200 g Sugar

5 Tbsp Rose Water

2 drops of Red Coloring

3 Pandanus Leaves, cleaned and knotted

2 Pomegranate, peeled

How to make:

Boil the agar-agar and pandanus leaves with water. Let is simmer for about 15 minutes.

Then add sugar and stir until both the agar-agar and sugar dissolves.

Add the rose water and a few drops of red food coloring. Strained and pour into a mold. Let it cool slightly and add the pomegranate. Chilled in refrigerator. Serve the agar-agar cold.

Taken From : http://indonesiafood.net/

Sweet and Sour Shrimps

Ingredients:
1/2 lb of medium sized shrimps
5 pieces of garlic
3 oz. flour
1 piece of egg
2 spoons of tomato sauce
1 lime
1/2 spoon of sugar
salt and pepper.

Direction:

• Clean the shrimps, remove the heads, keep the tails
• Clean garlic, and slice thinly. Sprinkle over the shrimps.
• Make a mix of the flour, egg, with enough water, salt, and pepper.
• Heat oil on a pan.
• One by one, put the shrimps into the pan by first dipping it in the mix above. Fry until golden.
• Put on a plate, pour tomato sauce over them.
• Tomato sauce: Heat tomato sauce, add sugar, and lime juice

Taken From : http://www.indo.com/

Soto Madura

Ingredients:

• 500 gr beef or internals
• 100 gr bean sprouts
• 80 gr rice noodles
• 60 gr Indonesian parsley
• 60 gr scallions
• 60 gr ginger
• 1 lime
• salt and pepper

Directions:

• Boil meat until done. Drain and cut into bite-sized slices.
• Remove the tails of bean sprouts, boil until half done
• Boil rice noodles separately
• Keep these in separate plates
• Cut Indonesian parsley and scallions
• Grind shallots, and brown it for a little bit
• Skin and cut ginger
• Make beef stock using beef bones boiled in water for about an hour. Remove bones, and put in salt, pepper, ginger, and shallots.
• Serve the soto by putting the beef, bean sprouts, noodles into a bowl. Pour soup into it.
• Sprinkle with Indonesian parsley and scallions.

Taken from : http://www.indo.com/