Recipes for the month (March 07)

Barbara hosted our first Cooks, Hooks and Lotsa Looks gathering with two delicious Indonesian recipes.

Saté manis

500 gr pork
2 pieces of garlic
6 tablespoons ketjap manis
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
½ teaspoon sambal manis
Juice of ½ a lemon
Puree the garlic and mix it with the salt.
Cut the meat in squares of about 1 inch.
(Rub the meat with the garlic-salt pulp, let it soak for ½ hour.)
Mix the ketjap, sugars, sambal and lemon juice in a pan until it is a sauce.
(Let the meat soak in this sauce for 3 hours)
Pull the meat out of the sauce, dab it dry and thread it on a skewer..

Set aside remaining sauce.

Roast the sate on the bbq and smear the rest of the sauce on it from time to time.

Gado gado

300 gram Chinese cabbage
200 gram butter-bean
150 gram bean sprouts
1 small cucumber
½ jar peanut butter
1/8 peace of Santen (pressed coconut)
2 pieces of garlic
2 unions
½ dl. Vinegar
3 teaspoons sambal oelek
6 tablespoons of chopped celery
4 boiled eggs
Clean the cabbage and chop it fine.
Clean the beans and break them.
Wash the rest of the vegetables.
Peal the cucumber and slice it.
Cook the cabbage and butter-bean until they are done.
Blanche the bean sprouts for a short time in boiled water
Chop the union and fry these together with the squished garlic in oil. Add the peanut butter and the vinegar. Stir until it is cooking, then add the Santen. Make it tasteful with the Sambal.
Peal the eggs and cut them in half.
Put the vegetables on a plate with the eggs and pour sauce over it.
Serve it with some rice, Voilà!