tjengkehpost.com – If you like salad, you must try this one kind of Indonesian salad, namely Karedok. This is another reference for you if you wanna try Indonesian food.

Basically Karedok is made from raw vegetables with peanut sauces. So it will be so crunchy, sweet, and tasty. You must try. One of my favorite Indonesian food. Beside it is so tasty, it is healthy also. Yeah we need to eat more healthy food now days right.

Where it is from

Karedok come from West Java, one of provinces beside DKI Jakarta province. West Java is lived mostly with Sundanese people, one of Indonesian ethnic groups.

They often eat Lalapan. It is basically raw vegetables which eaten when you eat main course. Usually Lalapan eaten with Sambal, kind of spicy sauce which made from chili, red onion, and garlic. FYI, we have so many kind of Sambal. OMG I don’t know how many exactly they are.

Yes, this is Indonesia. The red one is West Java Province.

Big country with so many kind of food. Proudly tell you that hoho. Come on come here to try as many as Indonesian food you can.

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Story behind it

Lalapan nor Karedok can’t be separated from the Sundanese habit of eating something that is close to their lives. Sundanese people’s habit closes with nature influences to their daily diet.

Habit to eat raw food without process is also reflects the Sundanese point of life regarding simplicity. They believe enjoyment can be obtained from something simple. Moreover this simple dish is healthy.

Enjoyment and health. These two things are necessity for everyone wherever they live. It is not surprising that Karedok is also eaten by people outside West Java.

Ingredients

To make this dish, you need some raw vegetables and peanut sauce.

Some of vegetables are basil, cabbage, green eggplant, cucumber, beans, bean sprouts, and lettuce.

For peanut sauce, you need friend peanuts, brown sugar, cayenne pepper, kaempferia galanga/aromatic ginger (I don’t know exactly what is kencur in english), a little shrimp paste, a little lime water, and salt. Blend them all with some water and pour into the raw vegetables that already washed and cut.

Taraaa! You can eat Karedok, one of salad from Indonesia.

I guess you can use vegetable that available in your country. Hopefully will be good also.

See you on the next one.

Your friend from Indonesia,

Aninda🐧