Rujak in general is a traditional dish made of mix fruits and vegetables and then served cover by special seasoning. In Indonesia, you can find rujak almost everywhere from restaurants to street food vendors. In another country like malaysia and singapore they call it “rojak”. There are many version of rujak here in Indonesia, such as :
1. Rujak cingur
Rujak cingur is a traditional dish from surabaya, east java. The word “cingur” means mouth, it refer to a cow mouth. That is they mix part of a cook cow mouth into rujak cingur. They mix “cingur” with slices of fresh fruits, vegetable and rice cake then served it covered by special condiment made of chilli, peanut and brown sugar. The taste is fresh and meaty.
2. Fuit Rujak
Fruit rujak made of various sweet and sour fruit like young papaya, kedondong, young mango, rose apple, bengkuang, pineapple mix with hotsweet seasoning made of chilli, peanut and brown sugar. The fruit rujak is so fresh (sometimes they served it cold) you can enjoyed it best in hot weather.
3. Rujal bebeg
The name of rujak bebeg refer to the making process of the rujak. That is you mix all the fruit, slice it tin, and then process it by mashing all the fruit until they all mix and soften. They mix and mash the fruit using lesung (deep bowl) made of wood. The rujak bebeg usually served using banana leaf that made the flavour even better. But today more and more food vendor use plastic as it is more practical and durable compare to banana leaf.
4. Rujak serut
Rujak serut is made of tin shaved fruit and then served it covered by peanut hot and sour sauce. The selection of fruits are vary according to the season or fruit availability.
5. Rujak juhi
Rujak juhi is a traditional culanary of betawi tribe. They call it “juhi” because they made rujak by using fermented and dried squid then mixed with noodle, cucumber and other vegetable. Rujak juhi is almost look like gado – gado.
6. Rujak petis
Rujak petis is a traditional culinary from east java. Rujak petis is made of slice of cucumber, bengkoang, young mango, kedondong, tofu, beansprout and kale. We mix them together then served it with seasoning made of shrimp “petis”, chilli, fried peanuts, salt, sugar, young banana and water.
7. Rujak soto
Rujak soto is a traditional dish from banyuwangi, east java. This rujak is a unique combination of rujak cingur and soto babat. Rujak prepared as usual with pieces of fruit and vegetable and then served it covered by peanut butter dressing and sauce from soto babat. This combination enchance flavour and create unique culinary experience. Rujak soto is a must try for a visitor coming for vacation or seeking culinary adventure in banyuwangi.
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