Pork Dumplings with a Rich Coconut Sauce on Sweetcorn Rice

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Preparation info
  • for

    6

    as a one-dish meal
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
New Wave Asian: A Guide to the Southeast Asian Food Revolution

By Sri Owen

Published 2002

  • About

The rich coconut sauce used here is the Indonesian Sambal Goreng Sauce. ‘Sweetcorn rice’ may not be immediately recognizable to Indonesians of a younger generation than mine, but for my sisters and me, who were children during the Japanese occupation and the years of revolution, it was a staple food when there was not enough rice by itself to go round. Sweetcorn and coconut were added simply to give bulk, but in fact they make rather a good combination and