Lontong Sayur Recipe

What is Lontong Sayur? Lontong Sayur is an Indonesian dish made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf pairing with thick peanut sauces and curries. It serves as the base for this savory morning favorite, a coconut-milk curry made with young papaya, soy-braised tofu and hard-boiled eggs.

serves 6-8

cook time: 1 hr, prep time:20 min

Lontong Sayur Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp oil

• 2 bay leaves

• 500 gram beef, choose cuts for stew, cut into bite size pieces

• 4 chayotte, peeled, cored, and julienned

• 500 gram snake beans, cut into 1 inch sections

• 20 stink beans optional

• 2 liter thin coconut milk (or use 7 cups water + 1 can of coconut milk)

• 2 tbsp fish sauce

• 2 tbsp palm sugar

• Pinch of salt

Grind the following into spice paste

• 100 gram shallot

• 4 cloves garlic

• 10 red cayenne chilies

• 30 gram dried shrimps, soak in boiling water to soften

• 2 inch galangal

Lontong Sayur Instructions:

1. Heat oil in a pot and sauté spice paste and bay leaves until fragrant.

2. Add beef and cook until no longer pink.

3. Add chayotte, snake beans, and stink beans. Cook until vegetables start to wilt.

4. Add coconut milk, fish sauce, and palm sugar. Bring to a boil.

5. Reduce heat and cook until the meat is tender. You can add more boiling water if the liquid reduces, try to keep the liquid to 2 liter.

6. Add more palm sugar and salt to suit your taste. Turn off heat.