Pickled salad with sour peanut dressing

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

  • About

The base of this pleasingly sour fermented cabbage salad has similarities to Korean kimchi, but asinan is lighter and fresher with the crackle of raw beansprouts and fried peanuts. It is usually eaten unaccompanied as a sensational comfort food snack, but I like to break the rules and serve it with Chicken sate. Jakarta resident and food expert Okty Rahardjo shared her recipe for the dressing with me. If she were from Bogor, a city an hour to the no