Monday, 2022-11-21
This illustrates what Pecel Pincuk looks like when you buy them. It comes wrapped in banana leaves, with rice underneath, covered with vegetables doused with peanut sauce (pecel) with lemon basil and peyek crackers on top.
Source: Pecel Pincuk Ibu Ida
Weekends mean eating out, be it breakfast, brunch, or lunch. For dinner, we either have a light one at home or go to our favorite hangout place, Ravino, for some cold beers and snacks. Last Saturday, we decided to explore another part of the Puri Indah Traditional market for breakfast, and this time, we picked Nasi Pecel for breakfast.
Traditional Market Puri Indah
What is Nasi Pecel?
Nasi Pecel is very popular in East and Central Java for breakfast. Nasi is rice, and pecel is a dish with various vegetables doused with sweet and savory peanut sauce. It commonly employs lightly blanched green vegetables such as water spinach, asparagus bean, papaya, or cassava leaves, as well as bean sprouts, tofu, and tempeh. Nasi Pecel is usually served with crispy peyek crackers, cucumber slices, lime basil, boiled eggs, and a dollop of spicy sambal paste.
When you buy nasi pecel in Central and East Java, they usually are wrapped in banana leaves called pincuk, hence called pecel pincuk. Pincuk is a popular traditional way to wrap food made from folding banana leaves and pinned with a stick to form an indentation. Banana leaves do not contain chemicals and give a delicious aroma.
The stall – Nasi Pecel Yanti
It's only 9:00 and all the side dishes were already finished.
Already past the busiest time for breakfast. There were 4 stalls altogether in our seating area. One stall serves cold drinks only, and the other only sells snacks.
The stall we visited was called Nasi Pecel Yanti and was quite popular. The food stall opens daily from 6:00 - 11:00 and is busiest around 6:30 - 8:00. When we got there, it was already almost 9:00. We were lucky there were still enough vegetables to make two portions of pecel. Unfortunately, the side dishes were already finished, except for the eggs. We had to go to another stall nearby to get fried chicken as our side dish. When you eat pecel, it's best to be accompanied by peyek crackers, but she ran out of that too. Luckily she still had a plate of peyek crumbs. That was good enough!
Pecel with rice, topped with a fried egg, and fried chicken as a side dish.
Two portions of pecel with rice, one with extra fried egg, deep fried chicken, and corn fritters doused with peanut sauce as side dishes.
The vegetables used on our pecel were blanched spinach, long beans, and bean sprout. The peanut sauce was a bit spicier than I expected. The whole meal cost only USD 3 including the deep-fried chicken we bought from another stall. The good thing about having rice for breakfast is very full-filling. We skipped lunch, and only had mung bean porridge with coconut milk for dinner.
So, that was our weekend culinary experience last week. I will see you again next weekend. Stay safe, and stay healthy!
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