Lawar Bali

Name: Lawar Bali (Balinese Blanched Vegetable Salad with Spicy Grated Coconut)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 7 pcs cayenne pepper or red chilli paddies (optional); 3 stalks lemongrass (use the white part only); 10 pcs shallots; 8 pcs red chilli; 6 cloves garlic; 4 gr pcs coriander seeds (about 2 teaspoons); ¼ pcs dried nutmeg (or ½ teaspoon nutmeg powder); 4 pcs long pepper or black pepper corn; 50 gr cayenne pepper or red chilli paddies, thinly sliced (optional); 100 ml coconut or canola oil; 2 pcs Indonesian bay leaves or regular bay leaves; 4 pcs Kaffir lime leaves or regular lime leaves, thinly sliced; 100 gr crispy fried shallot; 2 pcs medium ripe coconut, peeled, steamed and sliced (optional); 500 gr green bean or long bean (cut into 1 cm pieces, then blanched); 6 pcs kaffir lime or lime; 8 gr sugar (about 2 teaspoons); 10 gr salt (about 2 teaspoons); 2 cm turmeric (or ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder); 2 cm Kaempferia galanga (kencur); 2 cm galangal; 500 gr squid, (boiled and sliced); 200 gr grated fresh coconut; 5 gr shrimp paste/blacan (optional)

Balinese Blanched Vegetable Salad with Spicy Grated Coconut

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Flavors of Indonesia

By William Wongso

Published 2016

About

This dish is similar to urap, but with the addition of protein. In this recipe, we use squid. It makes use of Bali’s basic seasoning, basa genep, with shrimp paste to add as seasoning. It also uses Balinese Wangéan mix dry spices. Cekuh or kencur (Kaempferia galanga) is a must spice for Balinese.

Ingredients

500 gr green bean or long bean (cut into 1 cm pieces, then blanched)
500

Asia
Indonesia
Side dish
Spicy
South East Asia
Gluten-free

Method

Directions

Sauté all chopped spices and bay leaves until fragrant. Add shrimp paste, sugar, and salt to taste, mix well.
Prepare 3 bowls and divide the sautéed spices into three portions. In the first bowl, mix the spices with green bean, grated coconut, fried shallot and fried cayenne pepper or