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urap

Traditional dish from Indonesia

Must Try Street Food Vegetarian

About urap

Indonesian salad recipe

Urap, oerap, krawu, urab or in its plural form urap-urap is a salad dish of steamed or boiled vegetables mixed with seasoned and spiced grated coconut for dressing. It is commonly found in Indonesian cuisine, more precisely Javanese cuisine. Urap can be consumed on its own as a salad for vegetarian meals or as a side dish. Urap is usually found as a prerequisite side dish of Javanese tumpeng, a cone-shaped rice mound surrounded with assorted dishes, as well as part of a nasi kuning dish. In Balinese cuisine, it is known as urab sayur.

Key Ingredients

  • table salt
  • coconut
  • garlic
  • chili pepper
  • Brassica oleracea var. capitata
  • Cúrcuma longa
  • kaffir lime leaf
  • shrimp paste
  • water spinach
  • bay leaf
  • cassava root
  • Tamarindus indica
  • Asparagus bean
  • seedling
  • Spinacia oleracea

Dietary Information

✓ Vegetarian friendly
✓ Popular street food
✓ Must-try when visiting Indonesia
Traditional Indonesia cuisine

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