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I remake, translate, photograph and review authentic Indonesian recipes from the Dutch-Indonesian cookbook by Beb Vuyk (Groot Indonesisch Kookboek – 1973). This cookbook is packed with tasty, healthy and classic Indonesian dishes.

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Rosette Cookies Indonesian Style (glutenfree)

Aren’t they cool ?! These are rosette cookies, or waffle cookies, or in Indonesian: Kembang Goyang. Which means something like...

All dishes / Meat dishes / Sayur and Soup

Soto Kedu

It feels like spring today in the Netherlands: the sun is warm, but the occasional cumulus clouds cools the air...

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Orak Arik – Vegetables with minced Meat

Orak Arik is a quick dish with vegetables, egg and minced meat. Add rice or potatoes as a side dish...

All dishes / Other recipes and food hacks / Tofu and tempeh dishes / Vegetarian/Vegan

Vegan Tofu Shiitake Springrolls

These are tofu shiitake spring rolls. Usually spring rolls (lumpia) are filled with meat and vegetables, but today I make...

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Stir-fry Spicy Kale – Sambal Goreng Tumis Kale

I think kale Indonesian style is the best solution for this cabbage. I am not fond of Dutch stamppot, except...

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Devilish chicken

The days are already much shorter and next week the temperatures in the Netherlands will drop. Time for a devilish...

All dishes / Rice / Vegetarian/Vegan

Lontong sticky rice in bananaleaf

Making Lontong ketan yourself, not in a bag but in banana leaf, is not difficult at all. This recipe for...

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Green Chicken

This is Beb Vuyk’s recipe for green chicken, or ajam bumbu hidjau from Padang. The ‘green’ in the chicken is...

All dishes / Egg dishes / Vegetarian/Vegan

Omelet with grated potatoes

This vegetarian omelet with grated potatoes is wonderfully airy and crunchy. I’m using sweet potato today. I use 1 egg...

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Rosehip Soup

The rosehip bushes are now full of fruit. What a great spectacle and it makes me hungry too. I love...

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Lotek

This is lotek; an Indonesian salad with a dressing of peanut sauce. The combination of the crunchy vegetables and the...

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Pickled Pineapple

Sweet and sour pickled pineapple with chili peppers; that sounds so nice. I know a snack from Vietnam consists of...

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Ajam Pangeh -Chicken in Coconut sauce

This is Ajam Pangeh: chicken in coconut sauce from Bantam, a province in West Java. The dish sounds delicious to...

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Dodol

Toko Lo is a delicious Dutch catering company owned by Lola van Ruler. She is a professional baker with Indonesian...

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Colo-Colo sauce with eggplant and zucchini

A friend of ours with Moluccan roots always talks about colo-colo sauce. I learn online that there are all kinds...

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Raw eggplant is not dangerous to eat

When I place a Beb salad with raw eggplant online, I get a lot of reactions that eating raw eggplant...

All dishes / Fish and other sea food / Other recipes and food hacks / Sambal Goreng

Sambal Goreng Udang Pete with Snow Peas

Earlier I made this sambal goreng udang pete, with coconut milk and soybeans. This time I omit the coconut and...

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Pepesan – steamed fish parcels

Pepesan is a classic Indonesian recipe. Pepesan are fish packets filled with herbs and steamed in a rice steamer or...