Traditional Nasi Gudeg
Nasi Gudeg is popular dish from Jogjakarta and also well known on entire island of Java. The dish itself called ‘Gudeg’ while most of Javanese eat rice, sometime it says Nasi Gudeg (Gudeg served with rice). This sweet flavored dish Nasi Gudeg is made of young jack-fruit cooked with coconut milk and also Javanese palm sugar. Nasi Gudeg usually served with boiled egg, stewed tofu and tempeh ala bacem and also krecek fried chili sauce (typical ingredients in Javanese dish).
In Jogjakarta, Nasi Gudeg is easily found on almost entire street cafe ‘lesehan‘. It perhaps the best way to eat Nasi Gudeg in lesehan while enjoying traditional Javanese singer playing gamelan instrument.
The Recipe: Nasi Gudeg
Ingredients:
- 500 g young jack-fruit
- 500 g fat bone
- 350 g bony chicken or scrawl
- 6 eggs, boiled and peeled
- 400 ml coconut milk
- 400 ml water
- 200 g Javanese palm sugar
- 10 laurel likes
- 10 small chilies
- Salt as necessary
Grinded spice:
- 18 cloves of garlic
- 6 onions
- 5 grains candlenut
Preparation:
- Clean and wash jack-fruit, cut into smaller sized. Boil fat bone and bony chicken for a while in order to get softer meat.
- Mix grinded spice, coconut milk, Javanese palm sugar, and salt. Stir until it is mixed.
- Arrange jack-fruit, fat bone, bony chicken, boiled egg, laurel like, and galangale in steamed pan.
- Pour spicy coconut milk into pan. Add some water until they are soaked.
- Put small chilies in the top. Take out and remove when soup is getting dry.
- Ready to served.
