Urap is not familiar for you but for Javanese and Sunda people the dish is very popular. It is a kind of vegetables with spicy salad from grated coconut. It has good nutrition you can eat with white rice or just the salad itself. Let's look into my kitchen when I made urap.
1. Vegetables
3 medium carrots
A half cabbage
A bunch of Long beans
Some sprouts
Spinach or cassava leaves
2. Dressing
A half of grated coconut
3 – 5 red chillies
3 lime leaves
2 salam leaves ( bay leaf)
3 cm greater galangale or galingale
2 cm shrimp paste
1 cm galangale
1 teaspoon of salt
½ teaspoon of sugar
Peel and shred carrots and cabbage.
Cut long beans 1 cm long.
Prepare bean sprouts
Grind all dressing ingredients except bay-leaf, lime leaves and galangal
Mix all ground ingredients with grated coconut.
Sangrai ( stirred-fry without oil in frying pan with small fire) until it looks brownish.
Put the lime leaves, bay leaves and cut galangal in the mixture
Indonesian vegetables Salad urap coconut grated dressing
Take some steamed vegetables in a plate.
Put the cooked coconut dressing and mix with the vegetables
Now your urap is ready
Ok friends, What do you think of my menu? If you not vegetarian, it is also good for your diet because it is low calory. Eating urap in my tradition is with white rice and fried chicken and kerupuk. Kerupuk is a kind of crisp made from tapioca starch.