A favorite and easy Malay food recipe.
Sayur Lodeh is delicious and healthy.
If you need a nice substitute for meat, you can try this menu because it tastes a little bit greasy and sweet 🙂
Recipe for Sayur Lodeh
Sayur Lodeh Ingredients:
- 1/2 head cabbage
- 2 carrots
- 1/2 turnip
- 250gr firm tofu
- 1 1/2 cups cut green beans
- 1 1/2 cups coconut milk
- 2 cups water
Sayur Lodeh Spice blend:
- 2 tablespoon chili paste
- 2 teaspoon shrim paste (belacan)
- 2 mediums onions
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 stalks lemongrass
- 17 small dried shrimp, soaked in hot water to soften
- 1 inch fresh ginger
- 1 teaspoon corriander powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 4 tablepsoon oil
Sayur Lodeh Preps:
- Chop all the spice blend ingredients and add them to the blender, except the chilli powder. Blend it into a paste.
- Combine coconut milk and water to form “thin coconut milk”. Cut all the vegetables into small cubes and sticks.
- After all the spices are blended, add chilli powder according to your tastes. Fry it in oil till the oils in the paste ooze out. Don’t burn it.
- Add thin coconut milk and bring it to a gentle boil. Dump in all the vegetables and tofu and simmer it till the vegetables are tender. Add salt to taste.
- Serve Sayur Lodeh with hot rice.
This looks great!
I have to point out that Sayur Lodeh is an Indonesian dish though. ^_^;
Still, love the recipe! Thanks for posting!
Yes, it is Indonesian!
Thank you for sharing it. I will try to recreate something my Oma used to make!
Sayur lodeh is Indonesian cuisine, not Malay or Singapore cuisine, also rendang