'Indonesian cooking' archive

Nasi goreng (fried rice)

Back in college, there was a restaurant in the Diliman area called Rasa Singapura. That was where I had my first taste of nasi goreng. It is tempting to categorize this entry under “Singaporean recipes” but nasi goreng more properly belongs to Malaysian and Indonesian cuisines. It is fried rice cooked in much the same way as any Chinese-style fried rice except that the most popular versions of this dish include a little bit of shrimp paste — belacan (sometimes, belachan) to Malaysians; bagoong to us Filipinos.

Chicken satay

We were supposed to host a barbecue yesterday but our intended guests begged off at the last minute leaving us with a lot of chicken, pork and cocktail drink mixers. No problem. We mixed the drinks anyway, had our fill of Margaritas in our new Margarita glasses last night, and then we grilled the pork teriyaki and chicken satay for dinner tonight. In short, we cooked everything that we intended for the barbecue, including a large bowl of chicken and potato salad.

Beef with sate babi sauce

It is basically a pot roast beef. What’s new is the sauce–a modified sate babi (Indonesian) that I found in an old Nora Daza cookbook. The tender slices of beef is topped with the sauce and garnished with caramelized onion rings.

Sate Babi is actually skewered pork cubes, grilled until lightly browned and served with a [...]

Pork satay

A classic Thai dish, satay refers to small pieces of meat marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, honey, peanut butter and lemon juice, ginger and sambal oelek, then threaded on small bamboo skewers and grilled. I confess, I made some substitutions. We had no honey so I used brown sugar. I also used kalamansi [...]

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Fish & seafood

• Mackerel frittata
• Tuna belly fillets with garlic and rosemary
• Baked tahong (mussels)
• Steamed pompano with ginger sauce
• Clams spaghetti with white wine
• Pasta with prawns in creamy garlic sauce
• Chili garlic shrimps with coriander paste and Kecap Manis
• Sardines frittata in tortilla
• Braised tilapia
• Fish fillets in white wine and cream-and-cheese sauce

Healthy veggies

• Vegetable and Apple Salad
• Pork, spinach and Pinoy pesto
• Surreal Gourmet’s smashed potatoes
• Beef and broccoli leaves
• Chicken, squash and zucchini saute
• The complete salad
• Chicken, mushrooms and potato salad
• Mashed potatoes and kalabasa (squash)
• Capsicum halves stuffed with chicken, cheese and vegetables
• Salmon salad with mango-lemon dressing