Iga penyet

Iga penyet

Iga penyet, "squeezed" beef spare ribs in sambal
Course	Main course
Place of origin	Indonesia [1]
Region or state	Surabaya, East Java
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	"Squeezed" beef ribs served with sambal
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Iga penyet (English: squeezed ribs) is a Javanese dish of fried beef spare ribs served with spicy sambal terasi. The fried beef ribs are squeezed against a mortar filled with sambal, and usually served with lalab (raw vegetables) and steamed rice. Iga penyet first became popular in the eastern Javanese city of Surabaya, and has since spread across Indonesia. ^[1]

Etymology

In Indonesian iga means ribs, while the term penyet in Javanese means "to squeeze", which refer to the serving method of squeezing the meat against mortar filled with spicy sambal. This penyet method of food preparation is also applied to a number of other dishes, such as empal, ayam penyet, ayam goreng penyet, and ayam bakar penyet.

See also

• Food portal
• Indonesia portal

• Ayam penyet
• Javanese cuisine

References

1. Trifitria S Nuragustina (24 September 2013). "Rela Antre Demi Iga Sapi Penyet" (in Indonesian). Femina. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

External links

• Iga penyet recipe
• Iga penyet recipe (in Indonesian) Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine