Recipe: Perfect Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem

Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem. Sayur asem or sayur asam is an Indonesian vegetable soup. It is a popular Southeast Asian dish orginating from Sundanese cuisine, consisting of vegetables in tamarind soup. The sweet and sour flavour of this dish is considered refreshing and very compatible with fried or grilled dishes.

Common vegetables used in this sayur asem are melinjo (which I couldn't find here in. Today I wanna share with you,how i make my Indonesian Sour Soup it's called Sayur Asem I make sundanese version because there is several. Sayur asem or vegetables in tamarind soup is arguably Indonesia's most popular vegetable soup. You can have Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem

1. You need 1 handful of dried peanuts.
2. Prepare 5 of long beans, cut about 4 cm long.
3. You need 1 of medium size chayote, cut cube.
4. You need 1 of sweet corn, cut into desired size.
5. You need 200 gram of jackfruit.
6. You need leaves of Young melinjo.
7. It's of Ground Spices.
8. It's 2 pcs of big red chillies.
9. You need 6 of shallots.
10. It's 4 of garlics.
11. Prepare 3 of candlenuts.
12. Prepare of Other ingredients.
13. Prepare 1,5 Litre of water.
14. It's of Tamarind paste.
15. You need of Indonesian bayleaves (daun salam).
16. You need 5 cm of Galangal, smashed.
17. Prepare of Salt, sugar.
18. You need of Chilli padi (optional if you like spicy).
19. It's of Mushroom seasoning powder.

This Sundanese soup is packed with plenty of fresh vegetables. The broth is extremely flavorful, with spiciness from chilies, sourness from tamarind and tomatoes, freshness from lemongrass, earthiness. This is Indonesian version of spicy and sour vegetable soup,originaly from west java. Sayur asem (sayur asam) is a tamarind based vegetable soup with various Asian vegetables such as chayote squash, Chinese long beans, raw peanut, unripe jackfruit, belinjo fruits and leaves.

Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem instructions

1. Boil water with dried peanuts first as peanut takes the longest to cook, until soft. Peanuts make the soup sweet.
2. Meanwhile, prepare all the ingredients for ground spices. Put garlic, shallot, chilli and candlenut in your blender to make a paste..
3. After peanut is soft, put the spice paste, bayleaves, smashed galangal, tamarind paste, mushroom seasoning, salt, sugar. Put corn, jackfruits, chayote and cook until soft..
4. Lastly put the long beans and young melinjo leaves the last as this vegetable just need a short time to cook. You can also add chilli padi in the soup (whole, no need to cut/mash for extra kick of spiciness).
5. Adjust the taste. This soup should taste sour, spicy, with a nice balance of sweet and salty all mix together 😄 so refreshing and healthy too 🤩.

This soup (Sayur Asam) is one of the most popular soup in Indonesia, particularly in East and Mid Java. Easy to cook and can be enjoyed with any complements, such fried chicken, fried tempe, fried tofu, steamed rice and sambal. You can enjoy it in every occasion. Sayur Asem is a very popular vegetable soup dish in Indonesian cuisine. It has mixed taste of sour, sweet and spicy.