Beside Nasi Rendang and Nasi Goreng, Indonesia has another popular traditional meal. It's called Nasi Pecel, Nasi pecel is a Javanese rice dish served with cooked vegetables and sambal pecel or peanut sauce. The vegetables are usually kangkung or water spinach, long beans, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, and in East Java often used kembang turi (agathi flower, Sesbania grandiflora). It tastes best when eaten with fried tempe and traditional cracker called peyek.
Pecel is popular as breakfast meal in East and Central Java. Pecel has a lot of version such as pecel Blitar, Nganjuk, Kediri, Ponorogo, and Madiun. Although the substance has no difference with others, but each has its uniqueness.
The differences Nasi Pecel Ponorogo with the other is on the taste of sambal pecel (peanut sauce). Sambal pecel ponorogo is more spicy and without kencur (kaempferia galangal) in ingredients.
As a popular food, you can find a warung (stall) Pecel at any place and any time in Ponorogo. Each stall has a unique flavor and a unique way of serving, like Pecel Godhong Teak serving pecel with Godhong Jati (teak leaves) as a pedestal dish.
Nasi Pecel, the most spicy pecel in Indonesia
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