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Sayur Asem (Indonesian Tamarind Vegetable Soup)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 4 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Soup

Tags: easy, indonesian, recipes for soup, recipes using chayote, recipes using chile, recipes using corn, recipes using galangal, recipes using jackfruit, recipes using tamarind

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ASayur_Asem_%28Indonesian_Tamarind_Vegetable_Soup%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ASayur%20Asem%20%28Indonesian%20Tamarind%20Vegetable%20Soup%29&oldid=4518511

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Spice paste

  • 1 fresh red chile pepper
  • 2 shallots
  • 2 g terasi
  • ½ tbsp salt

Soup

  • 20 g fresh tamarind or asam jawa tamarind paste, or 5 dried bilimbi fruit
  • 105 g galangal
  • 2 salam leaves
  • 100 g yardlong beans
  • 1 chayote squash
  • 50 g corn
  • 100 g young jackfuit
  • 50 g gnetum (melinjo/belinjau) leaves and fruits
  • 50 g raw peanuts
  • Salt
  • Sugar

Directions

  1. Grind together all the ingredients for the spice paste until smooth.
  2. Clean the vegetables, and cut into bite-size pieces.
  3. Bring 1.2 liters of water to a boil in a pot. Stir in the spice paste, tamarind, galangal, and salam leaves.
  4. Gradually add the vegetables, starting with those that require a longer cooking time.
  5. Season with salt and sugar to taste.