Vegetables with Peanut Sauce (Pecel)

Pecel is a traditional meal from
one town in East Java, Madiun. It
made from different vegetables
and serve with peanut sauce and
warmplain rice (nasi putih). And
usually accompany with some
rice flour cracker (rempeyek). In
reality Pecel has a lot of version
such as pecel Blitar, Nganjuk,
Kediri, Ponorogo, and Madiun.
Although the substance has no
difference with others, but each
has its uniqueness.
Category: Vegetables
Difficulty: Medium
Cooking time: 45 - 60 minutes
Ingredients
200 g peanut, peeled and fried
(or you can use peanut butter)
Spice Paste
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 red chillies, seeded and fried
- 5 eye’s bird chillies, seeded and
fried (you can add more if you
wish to)
- 5 cm kencur (also known as
kaempferia galangal), peel off the
skin
- 1 tablespoon dried prawn paste
(terasi)
- 7 kaffir lime leafs
- 2 tablespoon tamarind mixed
and squeeze with 100 ml
lukewarm water and drain.
- 50 g palm sugar or more if you
like more sweet taste
- 1 tsp sugar
Additional Ingredients
- 100 g bean sprouts, cleaned
- 100 g spinach, cut
- 100 cabbage, shredded
Directions
1. Fry garlic and the chillies. Set
aside. And then grind or blend
together with the rest of
ingredients of spice paste. Add
the fried peanut. Continue
blending to make it smooth.
2. Add some of warm water to
make the sauce thicken
3. Cook all the vegetables. Set
aside.
4. Serve: Arrange the vegetables,
and then pour with the peanut
sauce. Serve withplain rice (nasi
putih), crispy rice flour cracker
(rempeyek), fried egg and
cucumber.