Sayur asem Palembang - vegetable and prawns in a sauce from Palembang

vegetable and prawns in a sauce from Palembang

ingredients:

300g prawns

2 stalks lemongrass

2 red chilies, seeded

75 pineapple

4 kacang panjang / snakebeans

50 g cucumber

1 red tomato

2 spring onions

2 tbsp asemwater

2 sprigs kemangi

1500 ml water

 

bumbu:

5 shallots

3 cloves garlic

1 cm kunyit

1 cm galangal

1/2 tsp shrimp paste

1 cm jahe

2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp palm sugar

 

preparation:

Cut the chilies into pieces, the pineapple into thin strips, the beans into pieces of 3 cm and the cucumber into slices. Cut the tomatoes into wedges and spring onion into 2 cm pieces. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste.

Heat in a pan the water with the bumbu and lemongrass. Add the chilies, pineapple, beans, tomato and spring onion and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the shrimp, the asemwater and kemangi and cook until tender.