Babi panggang refers to a variety of recipes for

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grilled pork dishes, 'babi' meaning pig or pork, and 'panggang' meaning grilled or roasted in the

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Batak babi panggang

''Babi panggang Karo'' and ''Babi panggang Toba'' are two similar dishes made by the Christian Batak Toba and

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. Pigs are slaughtered and used in their entirety to make babi panggang—bones for a clear soup, meat (including offal) to be grilled, and blood for a dipping sauce. The three dishes are served with plain rice and a sambal andaliman, made from fresh sichuan pepper.EatingAsia: BPK or BPT: Make Mine a B2
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Chinese babi panggang

In other parts of

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and also

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, where the

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are the main pork-eating population, ''babi panggang'' may simply be a local term for standard Chinese pork dishes—''babi panggang putih'' is '' siu yook'' (), and ''babi panggang merah'' is Chinese '' char siu'' ().

Dutch babi pangang

In the

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, chiefly in The Netherlands, ''babi panggang'' is a pork dish served with a

tomato The tomato is the edible berry of the plant ''Solanum lycopersicum'', commonly known as the tomato plant. The species originated in western South America, Mexico, and Central America. The Mexican Nahuatl word gave rise to the Spanish word ...

-based sauce. This Dutch/ Indonesian/

fusion dish is also known as ''babi panggang speciaal'' in the Netherlands, and the sauce as ''speciaal saus'' (lit.: "special sauce"). This fusion version of babi panggang became popular in the Netherlands and Flanders through so-called "Chinese-Indonesian restaurants", common in the Netherlands since the late 1960s and early 1970s. These restaurants are mainly owned and run by immigrants from Hong Kong. The dish consists of slices of crispy deep fried pork served on a bed of '' acar campur'' (a pickle-like salad made with thinly sliced white

cabbage Cabbage, comprising several cultivars of ''Brassica oleracea'', is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. It is descended from the wild cabbage ( ''B.&nb ...

and

carrot The carrot ('' Daucus carota'' subsp. ''sativus'') is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, ''Daucus carota'', nat ...

s of Indonesian origin; it is written ''atjar tjampoer'' in Dutch) over which a generous amount of the sauce is poured. It is highly probable that the dish was developed by Cantonese cooks, either in the former

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(present day Indonesia) or in the Netherlands itself after the large influx of Asians and Eurasians following the loss of its Indonesian colony and the advent of large scale

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world-wide.

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The accompanying sauce for the Dutch version is similar to other tomato-based sweet and sour sauces common in

Cantonese cuisine Cantonese or Guangdong cuisine, also known as Yue cuisine ( or ) is the cuisine of Guangdong province of China, particularly the provincial capital Guangzhou, and the surrounding regions in the Pearl River Delta including Hong Kong and Maca ...

. Most recipes for this sauce include tomato puree, ketchup or fresh tomatoes, fresh or powdered

ginger Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices ...

, water, vinegar, salt and a large amount of sugar. Recipes may also include onion,

garlic Garlic (''Allium sativum'') is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus ''Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, Allium fistulosum, Welsh onion and Allium chinense, Chinese onion. It is native to South A ...

soy sauce Soy sauce (also called simply soy in American English and soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of Chinese origin, traditionally made from a fermented paste of soybeans, roasted grain, brine, and '' Aspergillus oryzae'' or ''Asp ...

, sambal, fresh chili peppers, sherry or

rice wine Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage fermented and distilled from rice, traditionally consumed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Rice wine is made by the fermentation of rice starch that has been converted to sugars. Microbes are the so ...

, broth, MSG and cornstarch for thickening.

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