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Pecel Sayur: Vegetables in Javanese Peanut Sauce (Vegan)
Pecel sayur is a traditional Javanese salad-dish and one of the most common vegetable dishes in Java. It’s a salad of lightly-blanched vegetables, doused in a spicy-sweet peanut gravy.

- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 250 gr spinach, cleaned, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 5 long beans, cleaned, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 1 small cucumber, peeled, seeds removed, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 50 gr bean sprout
- 2 hard boiled eggs (optional), peeled
- 4 tbsp sambel pecel
- 0.5 cup warm water
Instructions
- 1
Blanch the spinach and long beans separately, set aside.
- 2
Dilute the sambal pecel with the warm water until it forms a thick sauce.
- 3
Put all the vegetables on a serving plate, drizzle the peanut sauce, and mix well.
- 4
Serve with the hard boiled egg (optional) and with or without rice.