Rujak Cingur (Spicy Vegetables Salad)

Cingur is a vegetables salad with spicy sauce. Literally “cingur” means mouth in Javanese. This food has become the unique taste of Surabaya. The flavor is really unique, because it combines of slices of cooked buffalo or beef lips, yam bean (bengkuang), young raw mango, pineapple, cucumber, bean sprout, kangkung ( water convolvulus), lontong (compressed rice), fried tofu and tempe, all served with  black sauce made from fried garlic, chilies, a slice of young banana,  petis (black fermented shrimp paste) and ground peanuts.

Ingredients

• 50 g bean sprout, cleaned
• 50 g shredded cabbage
• 1 stalk of Kangkung (water convolvulus)
• 100 g egg noodle
• 1 cucumber
• 1 young Mango
• 1/2 Pineapple
• 2 fried tofu
• 2 fried tempe
• 200 g cooked buffalo or beef lips (Cingur)
• Lontong (compressed rice), have a look at the Lontong recipe.
• ♥♦ Sauce : ♦♥
• 100 g fried peanut
• 4 tablespoon petis (black fermented shrimp paste)
• 2 or 3 bird's eyes chilies (optional, you can make less spicy if you want to)
• 1 tablespoon of fried sliced garlic
• 1 teaspoon roasted terasi (dry shrimp paste) - optional
• 1 teaspoon palm sugar
• 1 teaspoon tamarind
• Few slices of young Banana (optional)

Directions:

Clean all the vegetables, then cook. Set aside.

Peel and clean all the fruit and then slice into small pieces. Set aside.

Prepare the sauce by grind or blend all the ingredients, then add a little of water to make it thicker.

Serve: cut lontong (Sticky Rice) into small slices, then arrange it on the plate, add cooked vegetables, the fruits, fried tofu, tempe, cingur (cooked buffalo or beef lips) and then pour with the sauce. Garnish with krupuk udang (prawn cracker).

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