Name: Tempeh with red chilli & palm sugar
Yield: Serves 4 as a side dish
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 300 g (10½ oz) tempeh; 1-2 red chillies, sliced; 5 garlic cloves, sliced; 1 lime leaf, deveined and finely shredded (optional); 5 small red Asian shallots, sliced; oil, for frying; 60 g (2 oz) dark palm sugar (gula jawa)

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a side dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire Islands

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

About

This is a great snack with drinks or a side dish to add a kick to any meal. Prepared in this elegant Javanese style it is packed with crunch and flavour. The palm sugar forms a sticky glaze, whilst generous lashings of chillies leave a long, lingering burn on the palate. Add some redskinned peanuts into the mix if you like, frying them to a crisp golden in the same oil as the tempeh.