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PRACTICAL EXAMINATION 2: THE STAR OF THE PLATE Here's what I submitted to @foodfutureinstitute for my exams! This is Sambal Petai dish with Nasi 😋 I wanted to created something Malaysian and present it in a slightly more modern manner. This is called Sambal Petai dan Nasi which translates to Petai Bean Sambal with rice. The petai is normally sauted with a sambal sauce and then served together with rice. Petai is very much an acquired taste. You either hate it or love it due to the pungent aroma. I sauted most of the petai but there are also some raw slivers as some Malaysians do eat raw petai -- usually when they are young and straight from the pod together with a sambal sauce. The sambal is served as an aioli and also as spheres. The whole idea is to mix up everything together so that the sauce covers all the components of the dish when you eat it and it bursts with flavour. So it may look a bit dry but once you mix it all up until everything on the plate is coated with the sauce, it tastes out of this world. 💡Main component: Petai beans (pungent, astringent) 💡Sauce: Sambal sauce (sweet, spicy, aromatic, salty) 💡Additional element: Pandan-infused Black rice and chana dal  💡Other components included - pickled cucumbers, dehydrated mushrooms and microgreens.  💡Pickling: I pickled cucumbers so that the acidity will cut through the spiciness of the sambal (salty, sour) 💡Saute: Sauted the petai beans in the sambal sauce 💡Dehydration: I marinated sliced shiitake mushrooms with infused tamari and dehydrated them so that the flavours were even more intense. (umami, salty) 💡Sauce: Sambal sauce (sort of an aioli) But sambal in Malaysia is usually chunky so I kept it that way. Spherification: I enjoyed the cold oil spherification technique so  made the sambal into spheres too.  💡Steaming: I steamed the rice and chana dal (together with pandan leaves from my garden to give it the pandan aroma.) 💡Microgreens (more in comments, IG has run out of space!) #rcyffi #foodfutureinstitute #petai #sambalpetai #vegansambalpetai #exam #culinaryexam #spherification #malaysianfood (at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEk_LCKpR8l/?igshid=ovek8s1mxowc