Indonesian Sour Soup - Sayur Asem

Boil water with dried peanuts first as peanut takes the longest to cook, until soft. Peanuts make the soup sweet

Meanwhile, prepare all the ingredients for ground spices. Put garlic, shallot, chilli and candlenut in your blender to make a paste.

After peanut is soft, put the spice paste, bayleaves, smashed galangal, tamarind paste, mushroom seasoning, salt, sugar. Put corn, jackfruits, chayote and cook until soft.

Lastly put the long beans and young melinjo leaves the last as this vegetable just need a short time to cook. You can also add chilli padi in the soup (whole, no need to cut/mash for extra kick of spiciness)

Adjust the taste. This soup should taste sour, spicy, with a nice balance of sweet and salty all mix together so refreshing and healthy too