Indonesian
Sayur Labu Siam (Chayote in Coconut Milk)
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Sayur Labu Siam (Chayote in Coconut Milk) 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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Peel and cube the chayote.
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Blend the shallots and garlic into a paste.
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Warm a splash of the coconut milk in a pot and fry the paste with the salam leaves and galangal until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
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Add the chayote, dried shrimp, and water, and simmer until the chayote is nearly tender, about 10 minutes.
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Pour in the remaining coconut milk and salt and simmer gently, uncovered, until fully tender, about 5 minutes.
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Serve hot alongside rice or lontong.
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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 Labu Siam (Chayote in Coconut Milk), 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, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sayur Labu Siam (Chayote in Coconut Milk) carries shellfish and coconut. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Bobor Bayam (Spinach in Mild Coconut Broth) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Capcay (Indonesian Stir-Fried Mixed Vegetables) |
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
- 280 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 15 g
- Fat
- 23 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 300 mg
- Saturated fat
- 20 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Sayur Labu Siam (Chayote in Coconut Milk) takes about 30 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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