Recipe of Perfect Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem

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Sayur asem or sayur asam is an Indonesian vegetable soup. It is a popular Southeast Asian dish orginating from Sundanese cuisine, consisting of vegetables in tamarind soup. The sweet and sour flavour of this dish is considered refreshing and very compatible with fried or grilled dishes. Sayur asem, needless to say, is a favorite among many locals.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook indonesian sour soup - sayur asem using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:

1. Make ready 1 handful dried peanuts
2. Take 5 long beans, cut about 4 cm long
3. Prepare 1 medium size chayote, cut cube
4. Make ready 1 sweet corn, cut into desired size
5. Take 200 gram jackfruit
6. Make ready leaves Young melinjo
7. Make ready Ground Spices
8. Get 2 pcs big red chillies
9. Take 6 shallots
10. Take 4 garlics
11. Get 3 candlenuts
12. Make ready Other ingredients
13. Take 1,5 Litre water
14. Prepare Tamarind paste
15. Prepare Indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
16. Prepare 5 cm Galangal, smashed
17. Make ready Salt, sugar
18. Make ready Chilli padi (optional if you like spicy)
19. Prepare Mushroom seasoning powder

This Sundanese soup is packed with plenty of fresh vegetables. The broth is extremely flavorful, with spiciness from chilies, sourness from tamarind and tomatoes, freshness from lemongrass, earthiness. This soup (Sayur Asam) is one of the most popular soup in Indonesia, particularly in East and Mid Java. Easy to cook and can be enjoyed with any complements, such fried chicken, fried tempe, fried tofu, steamed rice and sambal.

Instructions to make Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem:

1. Boil water with dried peanuts first as peanut takes the longest to cook, until soft. Peanuts make the soup sweet
2. Meanwhile, prepare all the ingredients for ground spices. Put garlic, shallot, chilli and candlenut in your blender to make a paste.
3. After peanut is soft, put the spice paste, bayleaves, smashed galangal, tamarind paste, mushroom seasoning, salt, sugar. Put corn, jackfruits, chayote and cook until soft.
4. Lastly put the long beans and young melinjo leaves the last as this vegetable just need a short time to cook. You can also add chilli padi in the soup (whole, no need to cut/mash for extra kick of spiciness)
5. Adjust the taste. This soup should taste sour, spicy, with a nice balance of sweet and salty all mix together 😄 so refreshing and healthy too 🤩

This soup (Sayur Asam) is one of the most popular soup in Indonesia, particularly in East and Mid Java. Easy to cook and can be enjoyed with any complements, such fried chicken, fried tempe, fried tofu, steamed rice and sambal. You can enjoy it in every occasion. This is Indonesian version of spicy and sour vegetable soup,originaly from west java. Sayur asem (sayur asam) is a tamarind based vegetable soup with various Asian vegetables such as chayote squash, Chinese long beans, raw peanut, unripe jackfruit, belinjo fruits and leaves.

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