Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lontong sayur (chayote in coconut soup with rice cake). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lontong Sayur (Chayote in coconut soup with rice cake) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Lontong Sayur (Chayote in coconut soup with rice cake) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Lontong sayur (lit. vegetable rice cake) is an Indonesian traditional rice dish made of pieces of lontong served in coconut milk soup with shredded chayote, tempeh, tofu, hard-boiled egg, sambal and krupuk. Lontong sayur is related and quite similar to ketupat sayur and is a favourite breakfast menu next to bubur ayam and nasi uduk. The dish is found in Betawi and Minangkabau cuisine.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lontong sayur (chayote in coconut soup with rice cake) using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lontong Sayur (Chayote in coconut soup with rice cake):
- Prepare 500 g Chayote
- Prepare 250 ml coconut milk
- Prepare 750 ml water
- Take 2 tbs grind dried shrimp
- Make ready leaves Bay
- Take leaves Lime
- Get 1 lemongrass
- Make ready Pinch sugar
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take Oil to saute
- Take Grind the following
- Make ready 12 pcs shallots
- Get 5 pcs garlic
- Get 50 g red chilli
- Get 2 pcs candlenuts
- Prepare Condiments
- Take Rice cakes (cut to dice)
- Prepare Boiled eggs
- Get Shrimp crackers
Bring to a boil and set aside. The usual condiments that always goes into lontong sayur is ketupat or rice cake. And since I am lazy, I just used my pressure cooker to cut down the cooking time of ketupat. Do head to Flo's page for instructions on making the rice cake in a more traditional way.
Steps to make Lontong Sayur (Chayote in coconut soup with rice cake):
- Cut the Chayote into thin slices and soak it in salt water to remove the
- Grind the above mentioned ingredients until it forms a paste
- On a pan, add some oil approx. 6tbs then add the above paste
- Sautè the paste on low heat until fragrant, then add dried shrimp, bay leaves, crushed lemongrass and lemon leaves
- Mix them well and stir for few minutes, then add the sliced Chayote, add the water, salt and pinch of sugar, and let it boil
- Once the Chayote is almost cooked, add the coconut milk, stir gradually until it reaches the boiling point, check the taste and add more salt if needed, then turn off the heat
- Serve it in a bowl, with rice cake and boiled egg (optional) and top it up with some crackers
- Serve it hot for breakfast (or even lunch). Enjoy!
Thankfully mine turned out well taste wise, although didn't look it. In Indonesia, especially among Betawi people, lontong usually served as lontong sayur, pieces of lontong served in coconut milk soup with shredded chayote, tempeh, tofu, hard-boilled egg, sambal and kerupuk. Lontong sayur is a favourite breakfast menu next to bubur ayam and nasi goreng. Sayur lodeh is a popular vegetable in coconut milk soup in Indonesian cuisine. Common ingredients are young jackfruit, eggplant, chayote, melinjo, long beans, tofu, tempeh all cooked in coconut milk soups and sometimes enriched with chicken or beef stock.
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