Ayam Bumbu Rujak

Mild chicken dish in Coconut milk
Ingredients:
2 red Chilli peppers
3 cloves Garlic
10 Kemirie nuts
3 Tbl Oil
1 strand Lemon grass
2 Lime leaves
2 Curry leaves
1 Kg. Chicken drumsticks
200 cl Coconut milk
Salt
Preparation:
Remove seeds from the peppers. Make the peppers, garlic and nuts into a smooth
paste using a pestle and mortar or food processor.
Heat oil in wok and fry the paste dry in about 10 min. Add bruised lemon grass and lime & curry leaves and fry for a further minute.
Transfer to a sauce pan, add chicken and coconutmilk and boil covered for about 30 min. Remove lid and boil for a further 15 min. until chicken is done and sauce thickens. Add salt to taste.
Serve hot.

Javanese Mixed-Vegetable Salad

This is another recipe I've gratefully received from Karel Tjeng A Fa.
Ingredients:
1 cucumber(scored & sliced)
2 eggs (hard.boilled,shelled & sliced)
4 small potatoes(boilled, peeled, sliced & fried)
4 oz.(125 g.) tauge (tailed)
4 oz.(125 g.) cabbage (shredded)
2 oz.(60 g.) long beans (cut into 1-inch/ 2,5 cm. lengths)
2 cakes tahu kuning (cubed)
4 cakes tempe (sliced slantwise - to 1/2-inch/ 1.2-cm thickness)
4 oz. (125 g.) dried yellow noodles (cut into 11/2 -inch/ 4cm lengths)
20 pieces krupuk
20 pieces emping
8 oz. (250 g.) lettuce
boiling salted water
cooking oil for frying

Sauce Ingredients:

2-5 red chillies
1-inch (2,5-cm) piece terasi (dry-fried)
4 oz. (125 g.) peanuts (fried & skinned)
2 teaspoons sugar
1 dessertspoon cooking oil
3-5 daun salam
salt to taste
boiling water
juice of 10-12 limes
Preparation:
1. To prepare salad. Separately blanch tauge, cabbage and long beans in boiling water. Drain and reserve.
2. Heat oil on medium flame. Separately fry tahu, tempe, noodles, krupuk and emping. Drain well and reserve.
3. Shred half the lettuce and use to line salad plate. Arrange the remainder and all the reserved ingredients on this. Serve with the sauce.
4. To prepare sauce. Grind together the chillies and terasi. Pound together the peaunuts and sugar.
5. Heat oil and fry ground ingredients with daun salam. When fragrant, mix in pounded ingredients and salt. Cook for 1- 2 minutes and reduce heat.
6. Stir in boiling water to make a pouring consistency. Simmer till thickened. Add lime juice, adjust seasoning and dish up.

Sambal Goreng Kentang

A very spicy side-dish or snack made from potatoes, mixed with onion, garlic and peppers.
Ingredients:
3 large potatoes
1 large onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon sambal ulek
1 dessertspoon gula djawa
1 dessertspoon tamarind paste
1 tablespoon kecap manis
1 dessertspoon chopped parsly oil
Preparation:

Slice the potatoes very thinly into crisps or match-sticks.
They can then be deep fried to a golden brown.
Peel and halve the potatoes. Slice into thin slices or match-sticks. Wash and dry in a tea-towel. Deep fry until golden brown. Set aside.
Finely chop the onion’s and garlic. Soften in a frying pan or wok, add the sambal ulek, gula djawa, tamarind and kecap manis and fry for a further 3 minutes.
Mix in the potatoes and spoon into a serving dish, garnish with the chopped parsly and serve.

Sambal Goreng Telor

A traditional Indonesian egg dish served with a meal.
Ingredients:
5 Eggs
2 Tablespoon Oil
3 Shallots
2 cloves Garlic
½ teaspoon Trassi
1 red pepper
2½ cm Galangal root
1 Bay or Salam leaf
½ teaspoon Tamarind paste
2 teaspoons Sugar
½ cup Coconut milk
100 gr. Shrimps
Preparation:
Hard boil eggs for 10 minutes. Heat oil in Wok or frying pan.
Fry diced Onion, Garlic, Trassi, Pepper and Galangal slowly for 10 Min.
Add Bay leaf, Tamarind, sugar, Coconut milk and ½ cup of water and cook for 5 min. Add shrimps and slow cook for a further 5 min. Peel the eggs and heat through in the sauce. Slice eggs in halve lengthwise and arrange on dish.
Pour hot sauce over eggs and serve.

Bami Goreng

Fried egg noodles. Favourite Lunch or light Supper dish
Ingredients:
350 gr. Medium Egg noodles
100 gr. Diced Pork Fillet
50 gr. Small Prawns
1 medium Onion
2 Cloves of Garlic
1 Carrot
1 Small Leek
2 tsp. Sambal ulek
1 tsp. Trassi (shrimp paste)
3 tbs. Kecap Manis
3 tbs. Oil
Pepper & Salt
Preparation:
Boil the noodles, using the instructions on the packet. Rinse and set aside.
Heat your wok and add the oil. Stir-fry the diced Onion and Garlic for 1 min. Add the meat, prawns, trassi and sambal ulek and fry for a further 3 min.Add the finely sliced carrots and leek and fry for 4 more min. Add the Noodles and Kecap Manis.
Use pepper and salt as needed and stir-fry for a further 4 min.
Serve hot. Delicious with Hot Peanut sauce.

Sambal Goreng Buncis

French Beans Indonesian style.
A very simple but tasty recipe which makes a nice side dish.
Ingredients:
1 Onion
1 Clove Garlic
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp Sugar
1 tbs Sambal Ulek
1 tin tomatoes
1 ltr tin French beans
3 tbs Kecap Manis
1 tbs cooking oil
Preparation:
Dice the onion and crush the garlic. Fry in the oil for several minutes.Add the Ginger, Sugar and Sambal ulek and fry for a further minute. Dice the tomatoes and add with the juice to the onion mix. Bring to boil. Add drained Beans and Kecap Manis. Heath through and serve.

Satay Udang (Java)

Ingredients

* 1 Small Red Jalapeno -- sliced
* 2 Cloves Garlic -- sliced
* 2 Teaspoons Brown Sugar
* 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
* 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
* 2 Tablespoons Kecap Manis
* 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
* 1 Pound Medium Shrimp -- peeled
* Skewers

Directions In food processor, blend chili, garlic, brown sugar, lemon juice, salt and kecap manis. It should form a paste. Tranfer to a bowl and stir in olive oil. Let shrimp marinate in the paste for 15 minutes. Thread shrimp on the skewers. Make sure that some marinade clings to them. Grill over hot coals or under a broiler for 5 minutes.
Serves 4
From :The Exotic Kitchens of Indonesia by Copeland Marks