Pecel Palmerah, Javanese Traditional Food in Jakarta

Pecel is a kind of traditional Javanese salad. It uses various kind of vegetables and special sauce dressing from peanuts. I like pecel because of it's vegetables.

If you want to know more about it's vegetables, you can read Wikipedia entry on pecel:

Pecel consists of boiled or blanched water spinach, spinach, bean sprouts, yardlong bean, cucumber, cassava leaf and lemon basil, poured with peanut sauce, made from ground fried peanuts mixed with water, salt, palm sugar, tamarind juice, chili pepper, galangal, kaffir lime leaf and garlic. Additional side dishes might be added in pecel dish, such as fried tempeh and tofu, perkedel kentang, bakwan jagung (vegetables and corn fritters) and crispy rempeyek peanut cracker or krupuk.

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Location	Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia

Bu Dewi restaurant, a small restaurant in Palmerah, Jakarta, always serves this cuisine. Her pecel is one of my favorite one. Pecel in this photos are from Bu Dewi.

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Indonesian people have various kind of traditional salad. We call them "pecel", "karedok", and "gado-gado". What are the differences among them?

Kompas wrote :

Berbeda dengan karedok yang menggunakan bahan sayuran segar, bahan sayur di pecel harus direbus. Sedangkan sambel pecel yaitu campuran yang digunakan untuk menikmati sayuran rebus agar bercita rasa manis, pedas, asam, dan gurih.

and

Untuk bahan, yang digunakan gado-gado adalah campuran bahan makanan segar dan direbus.

So, "pecel" uses boiled vegetables, "karedok" uses fresh vegetables, and "gado-gado" uses combination of them.

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Pecel Palmerah, Javanese Traditional Food in Jakarta

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