Karedok

Name: Karedok (Raw Vegetable Salad with Palm Sugar Dressing)
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons shaved palm sugar or dark brown sugar; 3–4 red finger-length chilies, deseeded; 3 cloves garlic, peeled; ½ teaspoon dried shrimp paste (trasi), dry-roasted; 2 tablespoons tamarind juice; 2 cups (100 g) bean sprouts, seed coats and tails discarded; 2 tablespoons Crispy Fried Shallots, to garnish; Krupuk shrimp crackers, to serve; 1 in (2½ cm) fresh kencur root, peeled and sliced; 1 cup (100 g) thinly sliced green beans; 1 slender Asian eggplant, thinly sliced; ¼ head round cabbage; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 small cucumber; 2 tablespoons warm water

Raw Vegetable Salad with Palm Sugar Dressing

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

The Food of Indonesia

By Heinz Von Holzen

Published 2015

About

The Sundanese of West Java are renowned for their love of vegetables, both raw and cooked, and often eat them as between-meal snacks. Serve Karedok with rice as part of a main meal.

Ingredients

¼ head round cabbage
1 small cucumber
2 cups (100

Asia
Indonesia
Fish course
Snack
Pescatarian
South East Asia

Method

Prepare the Crispy Fried Shallots by following the recipe.
To make the Karedok Dressing, grind all the ingredients to a smooth paste in a mortar or blender. Set aside.
Separate the cabbage leaves, rinse well and shake dry, then slice them very thinly and place in a large bowl. Peel the cucumber, quarter it lengt