4 Types Of Peanut Seasoning In Indonesian Cuisine

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JAKARTA - Peanut sauce is a food complement that is quite well known in various regions. Many traditional dishes and snacks also use spices made from peanuts to add flavor. Call it dumplings, batagor, salad, gado-gado, ketoprak, satay, and many more.

Even though they are both called peanut sauce, in fact there is quite a difference. Usually comes from how to process and add certain ingredients or spices, for example kencur, lime juice, and its composition with other spices. Let's take a look at the different peanut seasonings from the following recipes:

Ground peanut sauce (suitable for satay and dumplings)

Material:

250 grams of fried peanuts 12 curly red chilies 2 cloves of garlic 2 blocks of brown sugar Lime leaves to taste 500 ml of water Salt and sugar to taste Powder broth to taste 1 tbsp sweet soy sauce

How to make:

Puree the fried peanuts in the blender. Fry the garlic and red chilies. Combine all the ingredients in the pan, cook over low heat, keep stirring. Madiun pecel seasoning

Material:

250 gr fried peanuts 5 garlic cloves 6 lime leaves 15 curly red chilies 2 red chilies cayenne pepper 3 segments kencur 100 gr palm sugar 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp tamarind without seeds 1 tsp mushroom broth

How to make:

Wash and slice all chilies, onions, kencur and lime leaves Fry all until wilted, set aside While waiting for the seasoning to cook, puree the beans in the blender, add a little oil, set aside Blend the ripe spices Mix the spices with nuts, add palm sugar, tamarind , salt, and broth. The seasoning of peanuts will be denser, so it is necessary to add water before serving with the Rujak Bumbu pecel

Material:

150 grams of fried peanuts 10 cayenne pepper brown sugar and salt to taste tamarind water to taste How to make: Grind peanuts until smooth (according to taste) Add chilies and brown sugar, grind until blended Add salt and tamarind water Seasoning rujak ready to serve with favorite fruit Ketoprak seasoning

Material:

250 gr fried peanuts, 6 garlic cloves, 5 red bird's eye chilies, briefly fried 100 ml of warm water Salt to taste 1 tsp sweet soy sauce

How to make:

Grind the garlic until smooth with salt Add the beans to taste, grind again until slightly smooth Add water and sweet soy sauce Peanut sauce is ready to be served on top of the ketoprak dish.