Easiest Way to Make Favorite 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.

To get started 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 can achieve it.

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

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