Rujak Juhi

INDONESIAN CALAMARI SALAD
Category : First course
Serves : 2 persons (big portion, 4 small portion)

Rujak juhi is a popular Betawi dish. The term Rujak( rojak) commonly found in Indonesian culinary is a fruit or vegetables salad where Juhi is salted cuttlefish.
Basically this salad being categorized as a main menu in lunch time and also because main ingredients quite heavy such as noodles, fried tofu, peanut sauce but can be for dinner too. I love rujak juhi and very easy to make, my hub favourite salad.

P.S. Salted calamari/ cuttlefish can be found in Asian grocery.

Ingredients :
fried salted calamari, shredded(as need)
1 egg noodle, poaches and drained
1/3 white cabbage, thinly shredded
fried tofu(as need)
cucumber, julienne slice (0.5 cm)
noodle crackers ( I use prawn crackers)

Peanut sauce :
50 - 75 gr peanut, fried
2 cloves garlics, fried with skin
2 red chillies, fried
50 ml water
1 tsp vinegar
a pinch of sugar
a pinch of salt

Methods :
Process all peanut ingredients in food proccessor or with pestle and mortar, bring to boil. Place the noodles in a plate, cucumber, cabbage, salted calamari, tofu, salted calamari again, peanut sauce and crackers.