The Indonesia table from the cookbook chapter opener, laid with the dishes of the chapter.

Chapter 03

Indonesia

Ground fresh, then cooked down.

  • 14recipes in the chapter
  • 4pastes and dips

About the Indonesia chapter

Four bases open the chapter: two sambals, a peanut sauce and kecap manis. The sambals are made rather than bought, and the difference between the fresh chilli paste and the shrimp paste version changes the dish it lands in.

The recipes that follow are largely built on cooking a paste down until it separates, then adding everything else to it.

From this chapter

5 of the 14

A selection, not the whole chapter. All 100 are in the recipe index.

All eleven chapters

The Complete Edition

The Indonesia chapter in full

All 14recipes, the headnotes, the pastes and dips, and the chapter’s place in the wider book — alongside the other ten chapters and the twenty-seven pantry studies that open the collection.

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