Acar Limau

Ini dia Acar Limau Matu yang amat sedap, dibuat oleh makcik I dari Matu, Sarawak.  Recipi-nya, yang I post-kan cuma secara kasar cara-cara penyediaan.  

Rasa-nya, manis, masam, pedas, wangi.  Nyamai  !!!!  


Citrus preparation
1.  wash, clean and dry the citrus
2. scratch the citrus skin with a knife. This is a very tedious task, but essential to remove the bitter taste from the skin
3. cut vertically top-down into 6 wedges without parting them
4. press down the citrus to remove the juice and seeds.  Keep the juice
5. dry the citrus for 1 day under hot sun
6. steam the pressed citrus till cooked, let it cool

Sauce preparation
7. in a pan, mix coriander powder, chili powder and turmeric powder in black vineger, heat over pan
9. add sugar and citrus juice
10. stir till thickened, let it cool

Bottling
11. arrange citrus in glass jar, pour in the sauce
12.keep for 1 week

Acar Sarawak - Recipe

Ingredients #1 :

1. 1 green unripe papaya

2. 10 cucumber

3. 4 carrot

4. 10 red pepper

First, peel the unripe papaya, remove the seeds. 

Without peeling the skin, remove the cucumber seeds.

Cut the papaya, cucumber, carrot and red pepper into 4cm stripes.

Then, add in a generous amount of table salt to the ingredients #1.   The salt creates a hypertonic solution, removing the moisture from the ingredients.   The moisture is further removed by squeezing the ingredients,  or by any other means, be it by twisting or pressing.  Lastly, dry the dehydrated ingredients under the sun.

Ingredients #2

1. rice vinegar 680 ml

2. sugar 600 g

3. red pepper powder

4. turmeric powder

5. garlic, sliced

First, stir-fry the red pepper powder and turmeric powder in oil.  Then, add in the vinegar and sugar.  Bring to boil, then turn the flame down till all the sugar dissolved.  When the broth thickened, turn off the stove.  Let the broth cool down.

After the broth cooled, add in the dried ingredients #1 , mix well.   

Keep the acar in glass containers, in cool and dry place.

Acar Sarawak

 

Acar Sarawak is somehow different from the rest of the acar available in other part of the region. 

The main ingredients of acar Sarawak are : cucumber, carrot, raw papaya, chilli pepper... all finely sliced, then dehydrated using salt as an agent, and marinated in vinegar seasoned with chilli flakes, tumeric powder, garlic and sugar.

It is serve together with fish cracker ( keropok udang ). Some like it to go with rice.