Karedok

Name: Karedok
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Sundanese
Ingredients: 150 g Long beans, cut into 2 cm lengths; 150 g White cabbage, shredded; 1 Cucumber, cut into chunks; 100 g Bean sprouts; 20 g Thai basil leaves; 1 Small green aubergine, quartered; 150 g Roasted peanuts; 2 cm Kencur (aromatic ginger), peeled; 6 Bird's eye chillies; 3 Garlic cloves; 1 tsp Terasi, toasted; 2 tbsp Palm sugar; 1 tbsp Tamarind paste; 1 tsp Salt; 120 ml Warm water; 60 g Prawn crackers, to serve

The Sundanese salad where nothing is cooked — raw long beans, cabbage, cucumber and Thai basil under a peanut sauce pounded with kencur, sharp and cold and eaten the same minute it is dressed.

Source

Recette de Sundanese home kitchens · 🏺 Traditionnel · Sundanese (West Java) household cooking

West Java · Sundanese raw salad — An ownerless regional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms karedok as a raw vegetable salad in peanut sauce from the Sundanese region of West Java, and one of its signature dishes. The pounding order, the grit test and the serve-immediately warning are this book's own.

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Pound the kencur, garlic, chillies and terasi in a mortar to a rough paste.
Add the peanuts and keep pounding until broken but still gritty. Work in the palm sugar, tamarind and salt.
💡 Stop while you can still feel pieces. Blended smooth it becomes peanut butter with chilli in it — the whole texture of the dish is in that grit.
Loosen with the warm water, a little at a time, to a thick pouring sauce.
Tip all the raw vegetables into the mortar or a bowl and turn them through the sauce with your hands.
Serve immediately, with prawn crackers.
💡 Immediately means immediately. Salt pulls water out of raw cucumber and cabbage within minutes and the sauce slackens into a puddle.

💡 Astuces

Gado-gado boils its vegetables, pecel serves the sauce over them, karedok leaves them raw. Three peanut salads, three different islands' idea of what a vegetable should be.
Leave out the terasi and the prawn crackers and it is vegan — but say so honestly rather than pretending the original was.