1 SERVING = 250 g

Calories 150 Sodium 0 mg Total Fat 0 g Potassium 0 mg Saturated 0 g Total Carbs 0 g Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 0 g Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 0 g Trans 0 g Protein 0 g Cholesterol 0 mg  

The rojak buah is an

alternative dessert to

chocolate and ice cream that can be just as addictive but with a plus

point of giving the extra needed

roughage to its patrons.

THE FUTURE OF ROJAK BUAH…

NUTRITION FACTS…

ROJAKBUAH

EAT FIRST, THINK LATER…

This delicious fruit and vegetable dish, tossed in a spicy sweet shrimp paste with crushed peanuts, can be served as a snack or as an exotic salad.

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INGREDIENTS:

1 tbsp chilli paste 1 tbsp thick tamarind paste

1 tbsp belacan (dried shrimp paste)

1 tbsp oyster sauce

3 tbsp palm sugar or dark brown sugar

2-3 tsp sugar

½ cup water

1 cucumber, peeled, halved and cut into wedges

2 cups green apples, peeled, diced

2 cups fresh pineapples, diced

1 cup guava, peeled and diced

1 cup slightly unripe mango, diced

1 cup jicama, diced

1 cup pears, peeled and diced

1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds

4 tbsp roasted peanuts, coarsely crushed

STEPS:

1. For a thick tamarind paste, soak 2-3 tsp tamarind pulp with 3-4 tbsp of hot water and mix thoroughly with fingers. Strain and discard seeds.

2. In a hot dry pan, crumble and toast the dried shrimp paste for 1-2 minutes.

DO IT YOURSELF...Recipe By Florence Tan

A BRIEF STORY ABOUT

ROJAK…This popular Malaysian fruit salad is often sold from mobile stalls parked by roadsides. Although it is a fruit salad, rojak is tossed in a pungent sauce made of fermented shrimp paste and red chillies or bird’s eye chillies. Salty, sweet, sour and some times hot , rojak can be tossed up with any combination of fruits such as green mango ,pickled papaya or ¾ ripe papaya, guava, jicama and the common cucumber. The standard offering is made with cucumber, fresh ripe pineapple, jicama/sengkuang and green mango tossed with the rojak sauce and topped with sesame seeds and a generous amount of toasted peanuts. At times blanch beansprouts or sweet potato leaves can be found. Due to the use of a combination of tropical fruits and