Lalap

Photo: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Lalap

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Indonesian raw vegetable salad

About this dish

Lalab is a Sundanese raw vegetable salad served with sambal terasi popular and originated in West and Banten regions of Java, Indonesia. Any edible vegetables can be made into lalab. However, the most common raw vegetables are cucumber, tomato, cabbage, lettuce, lemon basil, leunca, and long beans. While the blanched or boiled vegetables may include amaranth, papaya leaves, and chayote. The dressing for this salad is usually sambal terasi, served directly from the stone mortar as a spicy dipping sauce for these assorted raw vegetables. Today, lalab is popular throughout Indonesia. It is usually served as a vegetable side dish next to the main course, such as ayam goreng (fried chicken), ayam bakar (grilled chicken), pepes, pecel lele (fried catfish), fried gourami, and many other ikan goreng (fried fish) or ikan bakar (grilled fish).

Description: Wikipedia — Lalab, CC BY-SA 4.0

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