Name: Spinach soup (Sayur Bayem)
Yield: to serve six
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 1 salam leaf or bay-leaf; ½ green chilli, or a pinch of chilli powder; 500 g (1 lb) young spinach leaves; salt; 2 young corncobs, or 120 g (4 oz) sweet potatoes; 2 shallots; a pinch of ground ginger; a small slice of kencur

Preparation info

to serve
six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is an excellent soup, especially if the spinach is fresh and young. It can be made with either corn on the cob or sweet potatoes. You will need:

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb) young spinach leaves
2 young corncobs, or

Method

Wash the spinach and chop it coarsely. Cut each corncob into three pieces; or peel and cut the sweet potatoes into small cubes.

Slice the shallots and chilli finely and put them into a saucepan with 1 cup of water. Add the ginger, kencur, salam and salt, and bring to the boil. When the water bo