DISH RESEARCH · Salad
Pecel
This selected plate from Anita Jacobson’s Madiun pecel pairs boiled cabbage, spinach, snake beans and bean sprouts with her own peanut sauce, flavoured with kencur, makrut lime leaves and tamarind.
About Pecel
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Anita Jacobson’s Madiun pecel centres a peanut sauce scented with kencur and makrut lime leaves. The vegetables can vary; this selected plate uses boiled cabbage, spinach, snake beans and bean sprouts from her suggestions.
The selected toasted peanuts are ground with boiled red cayenne peppers, fried garlic, sliced lime leaves, peeled kencur, toasted shrimp paste, shaved palm sugar and salt. They form a thick, sticky paste.
Tamarind juice and hot water loosen the paste into a sauce. Jacobson leaves its final thickness open, allowing a little more or less water to suit the plate.
The vegetables are arranged together, and the peanut sauce is poured over them just before serving. Mixing the plate coats the vegetables with the sauce.
Rice is one possible accompaniment, making a plate of nasi pecel. Peanut crackers are another optional addition Jacobson describes, alongside the distinctive kencur-and-lime-leaf flavour of the sauce.
Ingredients in Pecel
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- Vegetablesbase
- Peanutsauce
- Garlicseasoning
- Dried Red Chili Pepperseasoning
- Tamarind pasteseasoning
- Sugarsweetener
- Saltseasoning
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Origins & food traditions
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- Countries & places
- Indonesia
- Cooking traditions
- Indonesian