The Culinary of Bali

How to make serombotan

So many culinary food we can find in Indonesia, exactly in Bali island. One of culinary in Bali is serombotan. Who don’t know about that culinary? Of course we know that. Serombotan is one of culinary from Klungkung city with use many vegetables then boil that until ripe, and also don’t forget about the spice, the tongue of people in Bali very love with hot spice, so this food use grated coconut and koples spice. Serombotan is good for us, beside delicious, serombotan can make our body be healthy because the vegetables in serombotan contains so many protein, fat, vitamin, calcium, carbohydrate, etc. The our body need proteins for regeneration, the function of the fat is for help the body to dissolve the vitamin. Vitamin A good for our eyes, vitamin C promotes a healthy immune system and helps make collagen, vitamin B complex helps with cell division and helps make red blood cells. Calcium is needed for healthy bones and teeth, normal blood clotting, and nervous system function. And the last is carbohydrate. The primary role of carbohydrate is to supply energy to all cells in the body, sparing the use of proteins for energy, etc. And the price of this dishes is cheap, we can buy serombotan only Rp. 2000,- per portion. It would be nice if we make by ourselve. To make serombotan is easy. Now, this is the steps to make serombotan. Check it out!

A)    First we need some ingredients, like :

-          Water spinach                   100 grams

-          Spinach                             100 grams

-          Long bean                         100 grams

-          Bean sprouts                     100 grams

-          Lady finger                       100 grams

-          Eggplant                            100 grams

-          Red bean                           50 grams

-          Soybean                            50 grams

-          Grated coconut                 200 grams

-          Peanut                               50 grams

-          Coconut oil                       3 tables spoon

B)    To make serombotan, we will make 2 spices :

1.      Coconut spice

-          Garlic                    2 cloves

-          Red chili                2 pieces

-          Chili                      3 pieces

-          Galangal                a slice

-          Shrimp paste         1 tea spoon

-          Salt                        as sufficient

2.      Koples spice

-          Roasted peanuts    75 grams

-          Red chili                3 pieces

-          Shrimp paste         ½ tea spoon

-          Salt                        as sufficient

-          Sugar                     1 table spoon

-          Water                    200 ml

-          Lime juice             1 table spoon

C)    How to cook

1.      For the vegetables

Slice the vegetables, and then wash until clean and keep it dry for a moment. Next, boil all vegetables except the eggplant. Each vegetable boiled separately.

2.      For coconut spice

Fry the coconut oil until heat, and then put the garlic, red chili, chili, and galangal. And the last, put the shrimp paste in the frypan. Next, add some salt to the spices  and then mix with the grated coconut.

3.      For koples spice

To make this spice, use a pestle and mortar or food processor to pound the peanuts, chilies and shrimp paste into a fine paste. Add the lime juice, water, coconut oil and a little bit of salt with sugar and then mix well.

D)    How to deserve

Put vegetables on the plate, and then put the coconut spice on the vegetables. Next, pour the koples spice on the coconut spice, and the last sprinkle the soybean and roasted peanut in the plate.

So, to make serombotan is easy right? Come on, try to make the serombotan in your home, and follow this recipe. I hope this article useful for the reader  ^_^