Indonesian bay leaves (Indonesian: daun salam), omit if you don’t have this.

palm sugar (Indonesian: gula Jawa), or dark brown sugar.

toasted terasi/belacan/shrimp paste, or ground toasted ebi (dried small shrimps).

red chilies (Indonesian: cabe merah), I use Fresno chilies, but you can use bird-eye chilies or cayenne chilies too.

To prepare the coconut milk broth, you will need: What are the spices to prepare sayur lodeh broth? Vegetables and protein that I use to prepare Indonesian sayur lodeh: Chinese eggplant, Thai eggplant, snake/long bean, tomato, soybean tempeh. You don’t have to use all of them, just pick at least 3 vegetables, then choose either tempeh or tofu for the protein, and you should get a proper Indonesian lodeh. Those are just the more popular and more common vegetables you see in a typical lodeh.

melinjo leaves (Indonesian: daun melinjo).

Indonesian tempe/soybean tempeh, if you want, you can use my recipe to make homemade tempeh.

Chinese eggplant (Indonesian: terong ungu).

Thai eggplant (Indonesian: terong hijau).

snake/long bean (Indonesian: kacang panjang).It is true you can use an assorted mixture of vegetables to prepare sayur lodeh, but here is a list of the more commonly used vegetables in a typical Indonesia sayur lodeh: :) What are the typical vegetables that go into an Indonesian sayur lodeh?

To me, cooking a batch of lodeh is a great way to clean up my fridge from the odd carrot, celery, and whatnot.

Like its cousin, sayur asem, sayur lodeh has no fixed rules on which vegetables to use.Īs long as you have the ingredients to prepare the spiced coconut milk broth, you can create your own version of lodeh from an assortment of vegetables you have in your home. Sayur lodeh is Indonesian vegetable stew in coconut milk. Ingredients to prepare Indonesian sayur lodeh: Chinese eggplant, Thai eggplant, snake/long bean, tomato, soybean tempeh, coconut milk, terasi/belacan/shrimp paste, palm sugar, salt, coriander, garlic, shallot, red chilies, ginger, galangal, and candlenuts.

Sayur lodeh cookpad