Sayur Lodeh Malaysian Vegetable Curry Crock Pot Recipes

MALAYSIAN-STYLED VEGETABLE CURRY

Steps:

• In a 1 ½-quart saucepan, heat 1 cup of the oil to 350°F. Fry the eggplant sticks, in small batches, for about 1 to 2 minutes or until the skin turns slightly darker. Using a pair of tongs, transfer to paper towels to drain.
• Fill another saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Blanch the okra for 1 minute. Drain and set aside.
• Make the chile paste: Place the jalapeños, shallot, garlic, lemongrass, galangal, and 2 tablespoons of oil in a food processor. Blend into a fine paste. (Alternatively, you can also use a mortar and pestle to pound the ingredients.)
• Heat a 5-quart Dutch oven over medium-low heat, add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil, then sauté the chile paste, stirring often, until the chile turns a darker shade of red, 20 to 30 minutes. Add more oil if the pan starts to look dry along the way.
• Add the cumin, coriander, and turmeric, and continue to sauté for a few more seconds until fragrant.
• Add the vegetable stock, tofu puffs, pandan knots, and bring it to a boil. Cover the pot with a lid and simmer for 10 minutes over medium-low heat.
• After 10 minutes, uncover the pot. While the broth is simmering, add the cabbage, tomatoes, eggplant, lime leaves, and curry leaves. Use the back of the spatula to immerse the vegetables in the broth if needed.
• Season with palm sugar, salt, and mushrooms seasoning. Taste and adjust the seasoning if needed.
• Once the cabbage is as crisp-tender as you like, add the okra and coconut milk, then simmer for another 2 to 3 minutes.
• Swirl in the lime juice, taste, and adjust the seasoning if needed. Remove the pandan leaves before serving.

SAYUR LODEH - MALAYSIAN VEGETABLE CURRY (CROCK POT)

Steps:

• In a food processor chop together onion, garlic, lemon grass (white bottom part only), ginger, macadamia/cashew nuts into a coarse paste.
• Cut potatoes, carrots, zucchini, green beans into 2" chunks and set aside.
• In a medium to large frying pan on the stove, add peanut oil and heat on high till very hot. Saute the items that were chopped in the food processor, and then after 5 minutes add ground coriander seeds, turmeric, lime leaves, bay leaves, chili flakes, and dried ground shrimp. Saute for 10 more minutes and then set aside.
• Set the crock pot on high and layer the following: potatoes and carrots, then a layer of half of the saute mix. Cauliflower, zucchini, then the rest of the saute mix. Top with green beans and cabbage. Pour in 4 cups of water and salt and cook for 5 hours with the lid on and only remove once an hour and gently mix to redistribute vegetables. During the last 30 minutes add the can of coconut milk and stir gently.
• Serve over steamed rice and garnish with a sprig of cilantro and a slice of lime.

SAYUR LODEH

Steps:

• Chop all the spice blend ingredients and add them to the blender, except.
• the chilli powder. Blend it into a paste.
• Combine coconut milk and water to form "thin coconut milk". Cut all the.
• vegetables into small cubes and sticks.
• After all the spices are blended, add chilli powder according to your.
• tastes. Fry it in oil till the oils in the paste ooze out. DO NOT BURN IT!
• Add thin coconut milk and bring it to a gentle boil. Dump in all the.
• vegetables and tofu and simmer it till the vegetables are tender. Add salt to.
• taste.
• PS: Adding pepper is not reccomended.
• Serve your Sayur Lodeh over rice.