Iga penyet () is Indonesian East Java Javanese cuisine — fried beef ribs spare ribs served with spicy sambal terasi. The fried beef ribs is squeezed against a mortar filled with sambal, and usually served with lalab vegetables and steamed rice. It was first popular in East Javanese Surabaya city, and now has spread across Indonesia.
Etymology
In Indonesian
iga means
spare 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 using
pestle. This
penyet method of serving dishes is also applied to numbers of other dishes, such as
empal penyet,
ayam penyet (
ayam goreng penyet) and
ayam bakar penyet.
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