Sunday, December 26, 2010

How to Make Awesome Kerabu

A step-by-step pictorial guide.


Start with the freshest ingredients straight off the tree. You can't get any fresher than this! These are white belimbing buluh also commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel in English.


Start with the freshest ingredients straight off the tree. You can't get any fresher than this! These are green belimbing buluh also commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel in English. They are a different cultivar from the white variety and do not change colour when ripe.


Green belimbing buluh (top) and white belimbing buluh (bottom). These white and green belimbing buluh also commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel in English.


Sliced green belimbing buluh (right) and sliced white belimbing buluh (left). These white and green belimbing buluh also commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel in English.


Sliced white and green belimbing buluh. These white and green belimbing buluh also commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel in English.


Start with the freshest ingredients straight off the tree. You can't get any fresher than this! These are bunga kantan aka Torch Ginger in English, Latin botanical name Etlingera elatior.


Sliced bunga kantan aka Torch Ginger in English, Latin botanical name Etlingera elatior.


Sliced bunga kantan aka Torch Ginger in English, Latin botanical name Etlingera elatior.


Sliced bunga kantan with the sliced white and green belimbing buluh. Bunga kantan is aka Torch Ginger in English.


Lime leaf shoots. Scientific name Citrus microcarpa, in Malay limau kasturi or kesturi.


Sliced lime leaf shoots with sliced bunga kantan, sliced white and sliced green belimbing buluh.


Cili padi. Turned out these four didn't look quite enough so I added another three.


Sliced green cili padi.

CAUTION:
The bird's eye chili is small but packs quite a lot of heat. At one time it was even listed as the hottest chili in the Guinness Book of World Records but other hotter varieties of chili have since been identified. It measures around 50,000-100,000 Scoville units which is at the lower end of the range for the hotter Habanero chili.


Sliced clili padi with sliced lime leaf shoots, sliced bunga kantan, sliced white and sliced green belimbing buluh.


Looks like two stalks of lemongrass are going to be sufficient.


Sliced lemongrass with sliced green cili padi, sliced lime leaf shoots, sliced bunga kantan, and sliced white and green belimbing buluh.


Shallots.


Sliced shallots with sliced lemongrass, sliced green cili padi, sliced lime leaf shoots, sliced bunga kantan, and sliced white and green belimbing buluh.


Finely chopped sweet basil aka Ocimum basilicum and daun selasih in Malay.


Finely chopped sweet basil with sliced shallots, sliced lemongrass, sliced green cili padi, sliced lime leaf shoots, sliced bunga kantan, and sliced white and green belimbing buluh.


Cherry grape tomatoes.


Over-ripe lemons have the most juice.


Udang kertas kering. Other ingredients you gonna need are Thai fish sauce, anchovy sauce/essence (budu), a tablespoon of sugar and a good mixing of all the ingredients in a sufficiently large mixing bowl.


This is the finished product ~ I've added sliced button mushrooms (raw), kerepek ketam as well as the Thai fish sauce, lemon juice and budu.

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