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Sayur Asam

Husband was feeling under the weather, so I decided to make sayur asam. From scratch.

The last time (the first time) I made it, I used a paste I bought from Indonesia so it was easy peasy.

There are quite a few recipes, and I used one from this website since it looks relatively simple.

Sayur Asam

Blended/pound spices:
1 thumb-size of galangal
4 shallots
1 bird's eye chili
5 red chili
4 cloves garlic
5 candlenuts
1 tsp of shrimp paste/belacan

Other ingredients:
Peanuts
Long beans (about 5?)
2 sweet corns (cut into 2 inch pieces)
1/2 head of cabbage (cut into large piece)
3 tomatoes (quartered)
1 carrot
3 bay leaves/daun salam
2 asam keping, for good measure
2 Tbsp of seedless tamarind paste in water
1 gula melaka cylinder
Salt to taste (abt 1 1/2 tsp?)

Those ingredients are not easy to pound using my stone pestle and mortar, yet not enough to blend in blender. I should have used food processor instead hahaha. Oh wells.

Fry the blended ingredients in oil until dry and until the chili is cooked. Add in the tamarind paste water and everything else until vegetables are cooked. I removed the bay leaves and asam keping halfway through so that it won't be too strong.
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