Atjar Tjampoer Recipe
- 100 gm carrots salt
- 100 gm green beans
- 4 x scallions
- 100 gm white cabbage
- 2 x toes of garlic
- 1/4 x cucumber
- 1 Tbsp. oil
- 150 ml vinegar
- 100 gm bean sprouts/shoots
- 1 Tbsp. sugar
- 1 tsp powdered ginger
- 1 tsp kunjit/kurkuma
- 1 tsp sambal ulek
- Cut carrot into the size of matches.
- Cut beans in 1" pcs.
- Chafe the cabbage.
- In a pan with a little water and salt, boil the vegetables for 5 min.
- Drain.
- Cut cucumber in*small* cubes.
- Peel scallions and garlic.
- Put in kitchen machine; cut to paste.
- Mix with sambal, kunjit and ginger.
- Heat oil in a frying pan.
- Fry the herb-mix for 2 min.
- Add in vinegar and sugar; stir to dissolve sugar.
- Add in all vegetables (also the ones not cooked yet); add in a
- *little* water if there is too little liquid.
- Boil softly for 2 min.
- Put in a bowl and let cold.
- You can also preserve it by putting the warm veggies in sterilized screw-lid jars (metal lids with a 'dome' in the middle are quite handy, I always save jam-jars when they're empty); add in liquid as well.
- Screw the lids on.
- Place jars upside down till cooled completely (the 'dome' in the lid will be down, this is to check if the jar closed well).
- Can be kept for at least a year (store in dark place to avoid having the color goes away).
- Nice as a present!
- Kunjit or possibly kurkuma is a herb.
- If I look on the jar, it says 'powdered yellow-root'.
- It is used to color this dish, and other dishes as well.
- In which way it is much like saffron, although kunjit tastes a little bitter.
- Sambal ulek INDONESIA: Used as an accompaniment and in cooking.
- Made by crushing fresh red chilis with a little salt.
- Remove the seeds from the chilis, chop finely, then crush with salt using a pestle and mortar.
- Three chilis will make about 1 Tbsp.
- sambal ulek.
- Also available ready-prepared in small jars from Oriental stores and some delicatessens.
- This is a refreshing side dish made of crisp, sweet-and-sour vegetables.
- Goes really well with Nasi Goreng.
- The dish can be kept in the fridge for a few days.
carrots salt, green beans, scallions, white cabbage, toes, cucumber, oil, vinegar, shoots, sugar, powdered ginger, sambal ulek
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/atjar-tjampoer-71301 (may not work)