All About Everything in Indonesian Food

One of traditional way in Indonesia to pounding something called ngulek. To ngulek, Indonesian often use a traditional mortar plate made of stone or wood called a lumpang, and a pestle called alu.

. If it is not available, use a traditional plate made of stone called cobek. If you want to pounding some ingredients but don’t want its mixed, cover the plate and it’s pestle with a sheet of plastic first so that the ingredients do not mix with the aroma of spices previously ground in the mortar. Pounding using a mortar cannot be done all at once, but little by litte. But in this era, for more practical you can use blender.
For making sambal, the common way is using cobek.