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Pecel
Pecel (Indonesian pronunciation: [pət͡ ʃəl], Javanese:ꦥꦼꦕꦼꦭ꧀) is a traditional Javanese
Pecel
salad with peanut sauce,[1] usually eaten with carbs (steamed rice, lontong or
ketupat).[2][3]

The simplicity of pecel preparation and its cheap price have contributed to its
popularity throughout Java. It has become a food that represents practicality,
simplicity, and travel, since the dish is often found along the train journey across
Java.[4]

Pecel was introduced to Malaysia, where it is known as pecal,[5] by Javanese

immigrants. Pecel is also very popular in Suriname, where it was introduced by the Alternative Pecal
Javanese Surinamese. names
Place of Indonesia
origin
History Region or Ponorogo, Madiun,
state Ngawi, Yogyakarta,
In Babad Tanah Jawi (circa 17th century), Ki Gede Pemanahan referred to the dish Central Java, East
he presented to his guest, Sunan Kalijaga as "pecel-ised boiled vegetables". In
Javanese is a Malayo-Polynesian
Java
Javanese language, "pecel" used to refer to the act of squeezing the water out of
language spoken by the Javanese people
something.[6] Serving Room temperature
from the central and eastern parts of the
temperature
island of Java, Indonesia. There are
in also
Sunan Kalijaga was not familiar with the dish as he came from northeastern part of Main Vegetables
pockets of Javanese
ingredients speakers on the
Central Java, while the dish was native to Yogyakarta.[7] This dish became one of the
northern
peanut sauce
coast of western Java. It is the
most popular Javanese dishes soon after it was introduced to other regions of native
Java, language of more than 98 million
Media: Pecel
and the word pecel took its current meaning, "a side dish that is made of vegetables
people.
and sauce".[8]

Pecel is only one of many Javanese vegetable-based salads. It is similar to lothek, except that lothek is usually served
with fried batter or tofu and uses both raw and cooked vegetables.[9]

Ingredients
Main ingredients usually consist of leafy vegetables, bean sprouts (or any other plant
sprouts), long beans, and cabbages. Some other types of vegetables can also be
added. People may use amaranth leaves, kangkung, cassava leaves, or leaves or any
other local plants that are in season. Some modern recipes will add carrots (sliced)
into the mix, or replace white cabbages with the red ones to spice up the color.

The sauce is made of roasted (or fried) peanut, asam jawa, coconut sugar, and other
spices. It might be served thick or watery, sweet or spicy, depending on the regional
variation.[10] [11]

Pecel is usually eaten with rice or rice cake (lontong or kupat). It can also be eaten Displaying vegetables and other
alone or with fried side dishes, such as, fried tempeh, tofu, etc.; and Javanese ingredients on banana leaf is a
crackers, such as krupuk or rempeyek.[12] traditional way on selling pecel near
Borobudur, Central Java.

Variants
The difference usually lies on the thickness level of the sauce, the taste profiles (spicy, sweet, or savoury). In Central
Java, pecel sauce is sweet-savoury with medium thickness, except in northern coast and north-eastern regions where the
sauce tends to be more spicy and the sauce is usually a bit thinner than usual. In East Java, especially Madiun, the
peanut sauce is very thin and spicy. Lamtoro seeds are often added as a topping.

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In Tegal, Central Java, pecel sauce is made of peanut and cassava root. In Surakarta's
pecel ndeso, black sesame sauce is used on top of peanut sauce.[13]

In Yogyakarta, pecel is served with bacem (sweet-simmered) tempeh or tofu. In

Surakarta, a pecel variant called lothek (alt. spelling: lotek) includes the use of some
raw vegetables, lontong, and gorengan. The name "lothek" is derived from "luthik", a
wooden spatula used to scoop the peanut sauce from a cowek (grinding bowl).[14]

Pecel tumpang is a pecel smothered with tumpang (tempeh sauce). It a delicacy of

Kertosono District in Nganjuk.[15]

Mie pecel or pecel mie, noodles with pecel sauce is common in Central Java as well as Solo pecel, served in a restaurant in
Medan. One of them is pecel mie kenyol from Batang, the noodle made from cassava Solo, Central Java
with a chewy texture.[16]

Gallery

Pecel Pecel with fritter, sate Mie pecel with badak

Madiun puyuh (quail egg (veggies fritter) in
with satay), sate keong Semarang
rempeyek (freshwater snail
cracker satay), and sate usus
(chicken intestine
satay) on a teak leaf
in Tuban

See also
Karedok
Food portal
Tipat cantok
Indonesia portal
Ketoprak
Lawar
List of salads
Pecel lele
Urap

References
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KOMPAS.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2019-10-24.

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5. "Buffet features favourite dishes of Malaysia's first four prime ministers" (https://web.archive.org/web/201309260818
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