Cover -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- Indonesia: the islands, the spirit, the flavours -- A culinary journey through the archipelago -- Housekeeping -- Balancing a meal -- An indonesian kitchen -- It starts with bumbu -- Crunchy snacks & -- street food -- The kaki lima cacophony -- Crunchy vegetables with sour spice dipping sauce -- Peanut & -- lime leaf crackers -- Coconut & -- lime leaf omelette -- Disco nuts -- I.f.c. -- Beef & -- coconut patties -- Tofu fritters -- Ingredients - for fragrance -- Sweetcorn fritters -- Sticky rice rolls -- Chicken sate -- Glazed prawn sate -- Lemongrass fish sate -- Martabak -- Rich & -- creamy -- Padang restaurants -- Beef rendang -- Coconut milk chicken -- Roasted coconut chicken -- Sumatran lamb korma with golden lace pancakes -- Pork braised in kecap manis -- Potato tuturuga -- Scallops gulai -- Olah olah -- Ingredients - for fragrance -- Young jackfruit curry -- Lamb shank red curry -- Sweet & -- spicy mushroom tongseng -- Padang-style eggs -- Dry & -- aromatic -- Offerings & -- celebrations -- Fiery sulawesi pork ribs -- Roast pork with turmeric, ginger & -- garlic -- Barbecued sweet soy chicken -- Spice-stuffed smoked duck -- Ayam taliwang -- Five minute stir-fry beef -- Jackfruit steaks -- Ingredients - for spice -- Spice islands tuna -- Blackened snapper with colo colo sambal -- Golden vegetable stir-fry -- Java spiced tempeh -- Aubergine with shrimp paste -- Fragrant broths & -- tangy sauces -- Eating in the royal courts -- Timur tamarind fish broth -- Sweet ginger chicken -- Prawns with red chilli sambal -- Rica rica clams -- Steamed fish parcels with lemon basil -- Tuna gohu -- Ingredients - for heat -- Javanese sea bass & -- spinach curry -- Snake beans with coconut milk -- Soto ayam -- Hot & -- sour duck -- Betawi spiced beef -- Laksa -- Salad &.

dressed vegetables -- Edible gardens & -- forest farms -- Vegetable urap with fresh spiced coconut -- Sweet coconut & -- basil salad -- Gado gado -- Pecel with peanut brittle -- Ingredients - for bitterness & -- sourness -- Sumba creamed corn -- Rica rodo -- Shredded chicken salad with lemongrass & -- lime -- Pickled salad with sour peanut dressing -- Jakarta beansprouts -- Water spinach with roasted tomato sambal -- Green bean lawar -- Stir-fried greens with garlic & -- chilli -- Rice & -- noodles -- Shimmering rice paddies -- Perfect steamed rice -- Solo coconut rice -- Yellow coconut rice -- Nasi goreng -- Sweetcorn rice -- Spice rice -- Ingredients - rice, noodles & -- soya -- Rubber noodles with chicken -- Bubur Bali -- Mie goreng -- Awakening the Senses -- The Warung -- Chilli sambals -- Sambal oelek -- Red chilli sambal -- Padang green chilli sambal -- Sweet tomato sambal -- Fermented sambal -- Strawberry sambal -- Balinese lemongrass sambal -- Peanut sauce -- Wok-fried peanuts -- Caramelised chicken floss -- Spicy coconut flakes -- Chilli-fried potato crunch -- Tempeh with red chilli & -- palm sugar -- Sour & -- spicy pineapple relish -- Lombok chopped salad -- Ingredients - for umami & -- salt -- Chilli-fried eggs -- Acar pickles -- Marbled eggs -- Sweet & -- sticky -- Dragon fruit & -- collision coffee -- Chocolate & -- lemongrass ice cream -- Kaffir lime sorbet -- Hotcakes with coconut cream caramel -- Ingredients - for sweetness & -- crunch -- Banana fritters -- Coconut custard pie -- Bright moon -- Green coconut pancakes -- Rice dumplings with palm sugar -- Sulawesi sweet potato fritters -- Black rice pudding with salted coconut cream -- Striped steam cakes -- Spice & -- butter cake -- Black rice steam cake -- Toasted coconut brittle -- Drinks -- Jamu elixir of Life -- Sweet tamarind jamu.

Turmeric jamu -- Frozen mint juice -- Cucumber limeade -- Bir pletok -- Stmj -- Bandrek spice tea -- Banda cinnamon tea -- Fiery ginger tea -- Ingredients - for richness -- Some kitchen tricks -- What to do with leftovers -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright.