Name: Asinan Jakarta (Jakarta Mixed Vegetable and Fruit Salad)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 200 ml water; 1 pc pineapple, diced; 100 gr cabbage, sliced; 30 gr dried shrimp (optional); 4 pcs fried crackers; 1 pc pear, diced; 4 pcs cucumber, deseeded and diced; 100 gr peanuts, roasted; 200 gr beansprouts; 75 gr red chilli, deseeded (alternative: red paprica); 30 gr garlic (about 6 cloves); 1 pc unripe mango, cut into julienne strips; 100 gr carrot; 200 gr sugar; 1½ tbs vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Flavors of Indonesia

By William Wongso

Published 2016

About

This is the ethnic Betawi take on fruit and vegetable salad. Its taste is easily acceptable for the international palate; you just have to adjust the level of spiciness. Almost any kind of fruit can be made into Asinan, especially the sour ones, as long as they are not over ripe. Different kinds of sugar vary on their level of sweetness. To get the right taste, add sugar until you get an over the top sweetness. Then use white vinegar to reduce the sweetness. Choose a higher concentration vi