Stir-fried mixed vegetables

Name: Stir-fried mixed vegetables (Oseng-Oseng Campur)
Yield: to serve two
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 60 g (2 oz) runner beans; 60 g (2 oz) carrots; 60 g (2 oz) cauliflower, or courgettes; 6 tbs water; 1 tsp dark soya sauce; 1 slice terasi; a pinch of chilli powder; 2 tbs vegetable oil; 2 shallots; 60 g (2 oz) beansprouts

Oseng-Oseng Campur

Preparation info

to serve
two

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is similar to Oseng-Oseng Wortel, except that a variety of vegetables is used. I find the following combination very satisfactory, but in Indonesia I would use kacang panjang instead of runner beans, and waluh jipang instead of cauliflower.

Ingredients

60 g (2 oz) carrots
60 g (2

Asia
Indonesia
Side dish
South East Asia

Method

Peel, wash, and cut the carrots into sticks lengthwise; cut each stick into 3 or 4 shorter pieces. Cut the beans about the same length as the carrots. Wash and cut the cauliflower into small flowerets, and clean the beansprouts. If you are using courgettes, cut them up in the same way as the carrots, so that all the pieces of vegetable are about the same size.

Crush the shallots and ter