Rujak Salad

INGREDIENTS

¼ cup lightly salted peanuts, roughly chopped 🥜
1 cup lightly salted peanuts, crushed to sand texture
6 tbsp tamarind paste
1 lime, juiced
3+ tbsp brown sugar
1 Thai chili, deseeded and finely chopped 🌶

1 unripe mango, chopped (bite-size pieces) 🥭
1 small cucumber, skin mostly removed, chopped 🥒
½ small red onion, shaved*
2 tbsp cilantro, chopped*
3+ mint leaves, finely chopped* 🍃

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*For authentic rujak…
Omit onion, cilantro, and mint.
Add any of the following:

• Starfruit

• Jicama (sub: Korean pear)

• Firm papaya

• Jambu (rose apple) (sub: green apple, pealed)

• Salak (snakeskin fruit)

• Guava

DIRECTIONS

• Using ½ cup hot water, soak tamarind paste, mashing with fingers or utensil to remove pulp from seed husks

• Pour the mixture into a strainer and push all pulp through, leaving only seed husks. The strained mixture should have a paste-like consistency.

• Add remaining sauce ingredients to the strained tamarind paste and mix well

• Combine cucumber and mango in a bowl

• Add shaved onion and stir

• Chop cilantro and mint; mix into fruit bowl

• Pour sauce over salad and mix. Top with crushed peanuts and serve.

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Rujak Sour cocktail

2 oz Skrewball peanut butter whiskey
1 oz soaked tamarind, strained (~1 tbsp of thick paste, thinned to 1 oz)
1 lime, juiced
½ tbsp dark brown sugar
1 mint leaf, spanked

Mix all ingredients (except mint) till sugar is dissolved.
Spank mint and shake all ingredients in a tumbler.
Strain and serve.