Hot Bananas with Cinnamon Coconut Sauce

This pleasant and simple dessert is quick and easy to make, although it must be served warm. Hot Bananas with Cinnamon Coconut Sauc Ingredients Servings: 4 4 large (8" to 8-7/8" long) Banana 1 tbsp (plain flour will do) Rice flour, white 2 tbsp Sugar 1/2 tsp Cinnamon 1 1/3 cup Coconut Milk Preparation Cut the ends from the bananas, but leave the skins on.

Nutty Corn Cakes

One of my favorite Indonesian side dishes is corn cakes. They come in a lot of different types, since it seems almost every regional cuisine has some kind of them. I found this recipe in a small book of Indonesian favorites. It calls for peanuts, which I'm not sure I've had before. If you're allergic, just leave them out. Nutty Corn Cakes with dabu-dabu sambal Ingredients Servings: 6

Pandang Chicken

Although, like Beef Rendang, this thick curry dish originated in Western Java, it's now one of those dishes you'll find in just about any Indonesian restaurant. This style is very similar to thick Thai curries, but the tomato base as well as turmeric mark out more western and South Asian influences than you see in Thai cuisine. Pandang Chicken Ingredients Servings: 8 2 lbs cut in 1-inch cubes Chicken breast meat 1/2 cup Lime juice 1 cup Tomatoes 1 cup Water 3 pepper seeded and sliced in strips Red hot chilis (Thai) 2 tsp grated Ginger 2 cloves crushed Garlic 1 tsp Turmeric, ground 1 stalk Lemon grass 1 cup Coconut cream Preparation Combine the chicken and lime juice.

Soto Ayam

Indonesia is a really huge country. The foods and cuisines vary widely from one part of the country to another. However, there are a few dishes that are available in just about every corner of this nation of 10,000 islands. One of these is Soto Ayam, which simply means “chicken soup”. You'll find street stalls selling it just about everywhere, and it's a big hit with foreign travelers as well.