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Side Dish Recipes
Beef and Bell Pepper Stir Fry
Do you have a favorite vegetable to pair with your stir fried meat? I gravitate towards onion, or bell pepper, or both. Try not to overcook the onion and bell …
Sambal Nenas - Pineapple Chili Relish
Pineapple is always present in Indonesia, and it is only natural that we have a sambal (chili sauce or relish) made with pineapple. I always treat my fruit …
Telur Bumbu Kemangi - Eggs with Spicy Basil Sauce
Growing up, lemon basil (Indonesian: daun kemangi) is among the many things that I simply didn’t like. It is quite strange that it is now showing up everywhere …
Sambal Goreng Tauco Labu Siam - Chayote in Fermented Soy Bean and Chili Sauce
There are certain ingredients we use just to give that umami kick, for example fish sauce and shrimp paste, which is totally great unless you are vegetarian. …
Opor Telur - Eggs in Creamy Coconut Milk Sauce
I have a weird habit of making lots of hard boiled eggs at a time and slowly finish them throughout the coming days. I kinda like eating plain hard boiled eggs, …
Asem-Asem Terong - Sour and Spicy Eggplant Stew
This is one of the easiest and fastest stew ever, like you really don’t need more than 15 minutes of cooking time or the eggplants are gonna end up looking …
Mendol Tempe - Deep Fried Spicy Soy Bean Cake
Mendol tempe is a specialty of East Java, especially around the city of Malang. It is made with tempe (soy bean cake) that is first steamed, then mashed …
O-Hitashi - Spinach Tower with Sesame Seeds
Healthy and delicious is not complicated. Create beautiful Japanese spinach tower with three ingredients: spinach, soy sauce, and toasted sesame seeds.
Nametake - Enoki in Mirin and Soy Sauce
This is a really really really simple way to cook enoki mushroom, or you can also use nameko or shimeji :) First, cut to remove the moldy end of the mushroom, …
Tempe Tumis Cabe Gendot - Tempeh Stir Fry with Habanero
For a really long time, I thought the hottest chili in Indonesia is bird eye chili, a.k.a. cabe rawit. Then one day I saw habanero being sold, and lo and …
Sambal Goreng Kentang, Ati, dan Petai - Potato, Chicken Liver, and Stink Bean in Chili Sauce
Me and my hubby are big fans of anything with “sambal goreng” in it. So despite this dish being not exactly good for our flu, which we are both still recovering …
Chicken and Tofu Meatball
Do you know that if you add tofu to ground meat and made patties or meatballs out of said blend, you are guaranteed to end up with a juicier result than if you …