Indonesian Favorite Foods
By Lila Bangsawan, 31st May 2011 | Follow this author
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Gado-gado and Satay are favorite foods of some foreigners in Indonesia. Maybe now you can deserve them at your home.
Indonesian Favorite Foods
There are so various foods you can find in Indonesia. Each province has its own foods. But, in general, these two kinds of foods can be found in every provinces in Indonesia. Even, these foods likely become favorite foods of western people who come to Indonesia.
Maybe some of you have already knew these foods, i.e. satay and gado-gado. But, do you know how simple they are? You can make it by your self.
Satay
Satay is grilled chicken meats and is served with peanut sauces. The chicken meat (one chicken medium in size) should be cut square in shape 2 x 2 cm and stick into bamboo stick. Each stick consists of 4 or 5 meats.
Grill the meat with medium fire, let them rather brown in color. Finish.
Now what you have to do is to prepare the sauce materials. It consists of peanut 1/2 kilo grams, kaempferia galanga (a plant) only a little, garlic 2 pieces, a tamarind, salt as you like and palm sugar as you wish. Pound the materials at once. The major taste is sweet with a bit sour (because of the tamarind). Finish.
Serve the sticks of meats on a flat plate and arrange slices of cucumber near the meat. Put peanut sauces in a small bowl. Now you can deserve it. (See the picture attached)
Gado-gado
Gado-gado is salad from Indonesia. It deserve with similar sauce of peanuts like satay. You can just boil the vegetables like young bean-sprouts, red onions, cabbage, cauliflower, ipomoea reptans (a kind of vegetables) but you can replace it with other vegetables if you can not find it in your area. Boil also two potatoes and divide it by five or six pieces. Boil two eggs and slices it into four or five each. Finish.
Now you can put all vegetables, potatoes and eggs in a plate. Add slices of cucumber in it. Sow the peanut sauce on the top of the vegetables. (See the attached picture).
Hopefully, those Indonesian foods can be your favorite foods as well. See you.
Comments
1st Jun 2011 (#)
This is great, like the recipe but I don't know where to get kaempferia galanga plant:)
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1st Jun 2011 (#)
Can I add ginger instead? it looks like ginger.
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1st Jun 2011 (#)
Dear Kafsoa, it is very different taste although it looks like similar. If you can not find kaempferia galanga, it's fine. Don't use it. Little bit different taste, but it's fine. Thanks a lot visiting my writing.
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1st Jun 2011 (#)
Thanks Lila for replying:) I'll try it this friday. |Thanks for sharing:)
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1st Jun 2011 (#)
Hopefully you will like it, Kafsoa. Thanks.
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5th Jun 2011 (#)
Hi Lila, we have these in Malaysia too. I love the satay especially. We have one stall that sells the satay which they grilled with the sauce together, so they are sold without the sauce.
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5th Jun 2011 (#)
Yes, Jlyn, Indonesia has that kind of satay as well. It's yummy. Malaysia and Indonesia have similarity in kinds of their foods. Right? Nice to share many things with you. Best regards.
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5th Jun 2011 (#)
Yes, I guess we do have similarities.
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