Top 3 Easy Vegan Indonesian Food Recipe

Many people today are adopting a vegetarian lifestyle. Perhaps, you are one of them. The general reason is that being vegetarian is considered effective if people want to lose some weight or simply want the benefit of health. As a vegetarian, you might want to explore something new to satisfy your palate. If that’s what you want, Indonesian foods are worth trying. They are easy, cheap, healthy, and of course delicious!  

1. Perkedel Jagung (Corn Fritters)

Indonesian home cooks are very familiar with this food called Perkedel jagung or known as corn fritters. To make this one snack, you only need a fairly short time. Just look how easy to make it!

Ingredients:

• 3 sweet corn kernels, finely combed
• 250 grams of all-purpose flour
• 3 heads of red onion, thinly sliced
• Enough water
• The oil for frying

Spices:

• 9 red onions
• 9 cloves of garlic
• 7 red bird’s eye chilies
• 5 pieces of lime leaves
• Salt to taste

Instructions: 

1. Comb the sweet corn by using a sharp knife from the tip towards the cob then mix the sweet corn with flour.
2. Add the spices, salt, and enough water. The dough should not be too runny or thick. 
3. Heat the oil over medium heat. Take the dough using a ladle. Pour in the oil slowly.
4. Fry it until the color turns golden brown. Lift and drain. Perkedel jagung is ready to be served.

2. Gado-gado (Indonesian Salad)

Gado-gado or literally translated to mix-mix is an Indonesian famous salad consisting of various kinds of boiled vegetables which then doused with peanut sauce. Not only using vegetables, gado-gado is also sometimes added with boiled eggs, tofu, or even rice.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 lettuce leaves, wash thoroughly
• 1/4 bean sprouts, brew hot water
• 5 pieces of cabbage leaves, sliced and boiled
• 1 bunch of long beans
• 4 potatoes, boiled
• 6 eggs, boiled
• 2 cucumbers, sliced
• 2 carrots, cut into matchsticks and boiled
• 3 pieces of white tofu, fried
• 4 tomatoes

Peanut seasoning ingredients:

• • 500 gr peanuts, fried
  • 20 cloves of garlic, fried
  • 5 large red chilies, fried
  • 5 curly red chilies
  • 150 gr brown sugar, comb
  • 8 tamarind fruit
  • 2 tsp shrimp paste, grilled/fried
  • 4 tsp salt
  • 5-6 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1200 ml of coconut milk

Complementary:

• • Fried onions
  • Chips or crackers

Instruction:

1. Blend all the peanut sauce ingredients until the texture is smooth.
2. Boil the peanut sauce over low heat until it is boiling. Continue to cook the peanut sauce until it is bubbly and thick. Taste test.
3. Take a plate, and neatly arrange all the gado-gado ingredients. Flush the ingredients with peanut sauce on top and sprinkle with fried onions and give crackers. Gado-gado is ready to be served.

3. Ketoprak

Living in Indonesia, this one food called Ketoprak can be found in every side of the place in Indonesia.  Similar to gado-gado, this dish consists of sliced sticky rice, or in Indonesian known as lontong served with bean sprouts, fried tofu, and vermicelli, then topped with peanut sauce and crackers.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of peanuts, fried
• 4 pieces of tofu, fried
• 2 small packs of vermicelli rice noodles, soaked in hot water
• 200 grams of sprouts, boiled briefly
• 5 lontong
• 1 boiled egg
• 1 cucumber, diced
• fried onions as a topping
• soy sauce to taste

Peanut seasoning ingredients:

• 50 grams of fried peanuts
• 1 clove of fried garlic
• 2 tbsp tamarind water
• 3 red bird’s eye chilies
• salt, brown sugar, and boiled water to taste

Instruction:

1. Grind all the ingredients for the peanut sauce until smooth. Add enough water.
2. Prepare plates.
3. Arrange rice cake, tofu, vermicelli noodles, bean sprouts, cucumber, eggs, and peanuts on a plate.
4. Drizzle with peanut sauce. Add soy sauce according to taste. Sprinkle with fried onions. Your ketoprak is ready!