Authentic Recipes from Indonesia
Product DescriptionAuthentic Recipes from Indonesia includes over 60 easy-to-follow recipes with detailed descriptions of ingredients and cooking methods, enabling the reader to reproduce the flavors of the Spice Islands at home. Included in this unique collection are spicy Padang favorites from West Sumatra, healthy Javanese vegetable creations, succulent satay and poultry dishes from Bali and Lombok, and unusual recipes from Kalimantan and the eastern isles of Flores and Timor. . . . More >>
Authentic Recipes from Indonesia
Tjis series of cookbooks is one of the best for someone who loves unusal and “exotic” food and who wants recipes adapted to be easy for the western cook.
Rating: 4 / 5
The authors, none of whom are native Indonesian, give a good coverage of the range of Indonesian cooking. The cover only hints at this diversity. However the cover’s display of satay [barbecue] is well chosen, as satay is perhaps the best known of the local foods. Satay differs from American style shish-kebab [which I suppose was originally Arab], in that it’s usually just meat strips on a stick. Typically eaten by dipping into various sauces.
One merit of the book is that it exposes you to the regional variants of cooking within Indonesia. Not just the Javanese version. It is the latter which is usually considered outside the country to be Indonesian food, and the offerings from Kalimantan or Sulawesi are relatively unknown.
Rating: 4 / 5