Rujak Buah - Fruit Salad with Spicy Palm Sugar Sauce

Author: Anita Jacobson

Categories: Sauce Snack

Cuisines: Indonesian

Ingredients: Fruit Vegetables

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 0 min

Total Time: 30 mins

Serves: 1 cup

Ingredients

• Rujak dressing/sauce
• 200 gram palm sugar (Indonesian: gula Jawa), chopped/shaved if using the block version
• 15 gram tamarind flesh + 5 tablespoon drinking water, strained
• 6 (or more) Thai chilies, seeded
• 1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste (Indonesian: terasi, Malaysian/Singaporean: belacan), toasted until pale, fragrant, and crumbly
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Typical fruits for rujak buah
• green mango (Indonesian: mangga muda)
• green papaya (Indonesian: pepaya muda)
• pineapple (Indonesian: nenas)
• water apple (Indonesian: jambu air)
• guava (Indonesian: jambu merah)
• cucumber (Indonesian: timun)
• jicama (Indonesian: bengkoang)
• starfruit (Indonesian: belimbing)
• ambarella (Indonesian: kedondong)
• pomelo (Indonesian: jeruk Bali)
• Optional toppings
• crushed/ground roasted peanuts
• toasted sesame seeds
• a mixture of salt and chili powder

Instructions

1. Prepare rujak dressing/sauce. In a food processor/blender, process all rujak sauce ingredients into a thick gooey liquid. Transfer to a dipping bowl.
2. Prepare fresh fruits. Wash and cut some of the suggested typical fruits and vegetables, make sure everything is bite-size pieces, arrange in individual serving/salad bowls.
3. Serving rujak buah. Serve both the cut fruits and rujak sauce together. Pour a little bit of the spicy rujak sauce and mix with the fruits. If you wish, add the additional toppings too.