Indonesian
Sayur Bening (Clear Spinach and Corn Vegetable Soup)
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Sayur Bening (Clear Spinach and Corn Vegetable Soup) is Indonesian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Thinly slice the shallots and garlic, and peel and dice the chayote.
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Bring the water to a boil with the shallots, garlic, and chayote and simmer until the chayote is just tender, about 8 minutes.
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Add the corn kernels and simmer 3 minutes more.
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Stir in the spinach, salt, and sugar and cook just until the spinach wilts, about 1 minute.
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Serve warm alongside rice.
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Serve it with
A Indonesian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sayur Bening (Clear Spinach and Corn Vegetable Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sayur Bening (Clear Spinach and Corn Vegetable Soup) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 60 kcal
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 590 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Sayur Bening (Clear Spinach and Corn Vegetable Soup) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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