If long beans are unavailable, you can substitute them with french beans or green beans. I also added young jackfruit (which is optional, because it can be hard to find as well), and raw peanuts. However, I’ve modified this recipe to use different vegetables as some of them, such as melinjo, are very difficult to obtain outside Indonesia. In the package were: melinjo leaves and fruits, long beans, corn, chayote and young tamarind fruit. Bumbu yang aku pakai juga simple banget, cemplang cemplung jadi deh sayur asemnya. In this recipe, I used a vegetable mix I bought from a neighbourhood vegetable stall. Cuaca hari ini panas banget, pengen yang seger-seger, jadi masak sayur asem. Melinjo is native to Indonesia and can hardly be found outside the country. The most common vegetables used are: young jackfruit, chayote, long beans, corn and the leaves and fruit of a special local plant known as melinjo ( gnetum gnemon). There are always one or two vegetables missing, and that’s perfectly acceptable. Most of the time, the vegetables in the pack will be based on availability, such that even now, sayur asem ingredients are never fixed. In Indonesia, especially in Jakarta, a sayur asem mix can be bought at the market or vegetable stall, containing everything you need to make the dish. As asem (tamarind) trees were thriving on their land, they created a tamarind-flavoured soup and added vegetables from their garden to it, creating sayur asem. Ingredients Scale 1. The story goes: during the Dutch Occupation, people in Batavia (the old name for Jakarta) were poor, and had to eat anything on hand. 2. The sayur asem here is the red West Javanese version. According to legend, this dish originated in the Jakarta area during the Dutch colonial period. Several variations exist including Sayur Asem Jakarta (a version from the Betawi people of Jakarta ), Sayur Asem Kangkung (a version which includes water spinach ( kangkung )), etc. It has mixed taste of sour, sweet and spicy. Sayur asem is basically a mix of vegetables cooked in a sour tamarind soup, giving it a refreshing, slightly-acidic flavour. Sayur Asem is a very popular vegetable soup dish in Indonesian cuisine.
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