On sunny days you have to eat sunny food, don’t you think? This mango with sticky rice snack is the perfect summer dessert, snack, lunch, breakfast? It does not matter when you eat it, it will be delicious anytime Thai You probably know this dish from Thailand. There you can...
Cendol is my favorite Indonesian dessert. Or is it a drink? ;-) . In Indonesia I’ve eaten cendol a lot. You can buy cendol almost anywhere in Asia. I’ve seen loads of different varieties. For example, in Burma. They serve their cendol with white bread floating in the coconut juice. Crazy,...
These eggs with petis are delightfully creamy and full of umami flavor. The petis gives this dish umami and that fits well with the coconut milk. Umami could be described as “savory” and is one of the five basic flavors besides sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Petis Udang Petis is an Indonesian...
If you make satay, the sauce that you serve with it is almost as important as the marinade for the meat. This super simple but delicious satay soy sauce is the perfect condiment for your crispy satay. Satay soy sauce Beb has several tasty sauces in her book that fit...
Most of the time I make peanut sauce the same way as my grandmother did. I must say I love our family peanut sauce recipe, but now I discovered Beb Vuyk’s chapter about sauces and I’m surprised. So many great and easy recipes. Most of the time so much easier...
Vegetarian friends come over for a visit today. Great food loving friends, who love Indonesian food especially. They have lived in Java for a while. I love to test some of Beb’s Vuyk sauces on them. As a main course I serve petjel/pecel: Indonesian salade. Together with this salad goes...
Temperatures are rising in Holland. It will be over 25 degrees celsius this weekend and for Dutch standards that is hot!. The perfect weather for a classic satay: Satay Babi! One of my favorite meat-on-a-stick recipes ;-). You can make this recipe with goat or mutton as well. In that ca,...
Beb Vuyk calls this satay Prentul, but I know this meat on sticks as Satay Lilit. Today I use lemongrass as sticks. It looks beautiful and adds that lovely citrus flavor to the meat too. Satay Prentul/Lilit This recipe is enough for 10 medium sized satay lilit and is ready in 45...
This is wajik; a super-sweet sticky rice snack made with coconut milk and Javanese sugar (gula Jawa). Wajik is a delicious and nutritious snack. Because of the rice and gula jawa it’s pretty heavy and scrumptious. That’s why I think it’s the perfect snack for during or after a walk....
This karedok salad is packed with fibers and anti-oxidants. Besides the health benefits, it is extremely delicious. This salad includes raw green beans, eggplant, and cabbage. The dressing is made with peanuts and Indonesian spices. At first, I thought that the eggplant would not be nice raw and cold, but...
Yes, you read it correctly: this is a rendang recipe with eggs. This rendang with eggs is much faster than a regular rendang padang and 100% vegetarian too! This dish from Sumatra (Padang) articulates Easter to me. It is a rich egg dish because of the coconut cream but also very...
This is a porridge of sweet potatoes braised in coconut milk: it is called kolak bubur. You can also make it with banana and normally a pandan leaf is added too. But I make Beb Vuyk recipe her and she doesn’t use pandan. But I definitely will add one next...
This Pork Stew with Nutmeg sounds delicious. It needs 500 grams of pork with ‘a bit of fat’; the recipe states. This is not a babi ketjap. It tastes different because of the nutmeg and mace. Mace is part of the nutmeg fruit. It covers the nut like flower leaves....
Aren’t they cool ?! These are rosette cookies, or waffle cookies, or in Indonesian: Kembang Goyang. Which means something like ‘swing flower’. To make these gluten-free cookies (Asian style), you must shake the dough off that is on a waffle iron in a pan with hot oil. The cookies are...
This chicken in spicy coconut broth is called an Ayam Rudjak in Indonesia. The word ‘rudjak’ is normally used for an Indonesian fruit salad with spicy Javanese sugar dressing. But rudjak can also mean ‘mixed’. Chicken in any kind of coconut broth is delicious don’t you think? This chicken in spicy...
More than 25 homemade Indonesian chili salsa recipes are on this blog now! I never buy Indonesian ‘sambal’ anymore in the supermarket. When we fancy a sambal I make one on the spot, that matches our dinner nicely. In the meantime, I have almost finished the chapter about sambals from...
This is an easy recipe for bapao (Asian steam rolls) with a filling of vegetarian minced meat. ;-). For this delicious mini vegetarian bapao no animal has suffered and eating less meat is better for our planet too. I use minced meat from De vegetarische slager. This Dutch brand makes...
Mung beans are hip again and can be found everywhere. In the vegan kitchen, they are used a lot. Have you ever eaten mung beans? Probably! Because they are bean sprouts. Or better put: mung beans are the beans where bean sprouts are grown from. Here I’ve made you a mung...
Wakame is edible seaweed. It is full of vitamins and minerals and can be eaten cold or hot. The Japanese eat it in various ways, for example as a salad with sushi, but also as a ‘vegetable’ in miso soup. It’s time to share my wakame recipe with you. It...
We eat this amazingly delicious salad often. This Thai mango salad has the perfect balance between sweet, sour and spicy. There are so many layers of flavor in this mango salad that I can not get enough of it. You can make this mango salad with ripe or unripe mango....
This sambal kelapa Jagung is very different from other Indonesian chili salsas. It is not as smooth as regular sambal, but rather a kind of strongly seasoned grated coconut ‘salad’ with corn and chives. I have halved the quantities because this sambal is not preserved well and we have a family...
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