Rujak Bebek, Ground Fruits with Sweet and Spicy Peanut Sauce

TIMESINDONESIA, CIREBON – Rujak Bebek is a fruit salad made of ground fruits with sweet and spicy peanut sauce. This food is a typical dish found in Cirebon, West Java.

Ruajak literally means salad, and bebek means crushed or gorund. As its name this fruit salad has a distinctive way in the making. You need some mortar either it’s made of wood or stone to crush the fruits.

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After it’s crushed evenly, as any Indonesian way of serving rujak, you need to pour the key ingredients on top of it, the peanut sauce.

The local community of Cirebon used to have this dish as a festive food especially for baby shower ceremony.

“There have not been much people selling this food nowadays, so it’s kinda rare,” Agus a local hawker of Cirebon said on Thursday (12/11/2020).

Unlike the normal fruit salad that consists mainly of common fruit, rujak bebek will also consist of some exotic fruit like noni. It also has an exotic taste of sweet cassava, since this particular food also added in it.

Some other exotic fruits such as guava, jicama, sour mango, pineapple are also added. It makes this rujak gives you a kick of sour, sweet and spicy taste from the peanut sauce at a time.

From a hawker like Agus, you could have a set of Rujak Bebek for IDR 5 K. This fruit salad of Cirebon will surely leave you an unforgettable taste you have never had before. (*)

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