Mother and daughter Patricia Tanumihardja and Juliana Evari Suparman share recipes from their Indonesian kitchen.

Powder the dry roasted spices into mortar and pestle. 2. In a bowl mash four potatoes ... Take a portion of aloo tikki mixture and make a ball out of it and gently flatten them into a round shape.

Mix the oyster sauce, groundnut and sesame oil, salt, ginger and bamboo shoots in a large pestle and mortar to make a paste ... To make the balls, shape spoonfuls of the prawn filling into ...

We think it's about eight thousand years old, but a pestle then would have been used exactly as it is now - to grind food in a mortar and break ... the size of a cricket ball, and you can feel ...

Little tasty balls of food are always good ... kibbeh was made by pounding the meat and bulgur wheat into a paste with a mortar and pestle, then kneading in the spices and forming small ovalish ...