Indonesian Food Recipes

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Ingredients:

• 1 chayote, cut into julienne strips
• 10 long green beans, cut into 3 cm lenghts
• 50 gr young jackfruit, diced
• 400 ml coconut milk
• 1 lemon grass, bruished
• sugar or coconut candy to taste

Spice Paste Ingredients:

• 3 shallots
• 3 cloves garlic
• 6 red chilies (reduce/add as desired)
• 3 cm ginger
• 3 cm galangal
• 2 cm turmeric
• 5 candle nuts.
• Salt to taste

Directions:

• Grind spice paste ingredients with a spice grinder or pestle and mortar to a fine powder
• Saute the spice in a frying pan until fragrant. Remove and set aside.
• Pour coconut milk into a saucepan.  Add fried spice and lemon grass. Cook over medium heat to a boil.
• Add jackfruit.  Keep cooking until some of the liquid evaporates and the jackfruit is half done.
• Add chayote and green beans. Stir to combine.
• Add sugar. Keep cooking and stirring until all finely done.
• Serve in a bowl (Better served with rice dumpling, either ketupat or lontong)