Name: Eggs in piquant sauce (Acar Telur)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 4 or 6 hard-boiled eggs; salt; 1 tsp dry mustard; 1 cup water; 2 tsp brown sugar; 1 tbs clear soya sauce; 3 tbs vinegar; 2 or more green chillis; ½ cucumber; 1 tsp ground ginger; ½ tsp turmeric; 4 kemiri (candlenuts); 3 shallots; 2 cloves garlic; 1 tbs vegetable oil

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Duck eggs or hen eggs are equally good for this sauce.

Ingredients

4 or 6 hard-boiled eggs
3 shallots
2 cloves

Method

Peel and slice the shallots and garlic and pound them in a mortar with the kemiri until they become a smooth paste. Add the ground ginger and turmeric. Seed the green chillis and chop them finely. Peel the cucumber and slice into thin rounds.

Peel the eggs and cut each into four.

In a wok or saucepan, heat the oil and fry the kemiri paste for 1 minute. Add the chillis, soya sauc