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How to Make Pepes Tahu

Sunday, 10 May 2015 / No Comments
Welcome to our food and cuisine blog…
Happy Saturday everyone… today I still make a post that staring tofu as our softy and silky tofu.
How To Make Pepes Tahu
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Before i already posted Chinese and Japanese food that made from tofu. This time I want to post about the traditional food from by beloved country, yes that’s it Indonesian food. The food is called as ‘pepes tahu’ the taste is little bit spicy and wrapped with banana’s leaves.
See the picture below, it looks tasty right? You can try to make this one at home. Its so simple.

Ingredients:

500gr firm tofu, mashed
200gr button mushroom, sliced
10 prawns, peeled and diced
10 red chilies, sliced thinly (you can use bird eye chili if you want it to be burning HOT)
1 beaten egg
10 bay leaves
Some banana’s leaves
Spices
4 cloves of garlic
5 cloves of shallots
3 candle-nuts
1 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp turmeric powder
Chicken powder
Salt, pepper and sugar to taste

Steps:

1. Mash the tofu with the fork until the lumps are gone.
2. In a mortar pestle or a food processors, ground shallots, garlic, candle-nuts, coriander seeds and add a little salt till smooth.
3. Mix mashed tofu, egg, the blended spices, mushroom, prawns , turmeric powder, chicken powder, salt , pepper and sugar to taste in a bowl. And then add the sliced chilies into the bowl.
4. Prepare the banana’s leaf and put one or two bay leaves in the middle of the banana’s leaves.
5. Put the tofu mixture above the banana’s leaf and wrap the tofu mixture nicely.
6. Put the ‘pepes’ inside the steamer and cook for about 30 minutes.

Open the banana’s leaf and the pepes tahu is ready to serve. You can enjoy it with the rice. It will be such an interesting food for your family time.
Thanks for reading…
See you next time…

How to Make Tofu Pudding

Friday, 8 May 2015 / No Comments
Hello my lovely friends… listening to our favorite music is such a good way to boost our mood, because it will make us relax and forget some problem that we are thinking about. How about you? What is your way to boost your mood?.
How To Make Tofu Pudding
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Beside of listening to the music, eating a sweet food also make my day effectively. Because today our star is the soft tofu, today I will tell you about how to make tofu pudding, or in Chinese called as ‘dou hua’, and  in my place called as ‘kembang tahu’. If you make this dessert at home, you can have new experience to try new way to enjoy healthy tofu. The pudding is so soft and melting in your mouth. Even just writing about this can make me hungry ha-ha. Okay, just check this out…

Ingredients:

⅓ cup (100 ml) boiling water
10 g gelatin
175 g firm silken tofu
5 Tbsp. honey
1½ cup (350 ml) unsweetened soymilk
½ tsp. almond extract

Instructions:

1. Mix the boiling water and gelatin in a bowl until it was completely become mixture.
2. Mix tofu, honey, and soymilk together. You can use food processor to make sure it will completely become smooth.
3. Transfer the mixture to the large bowl. Add the gelatin mixture and almond extract and whisk. Make sure you don’t making too much bubbles.
4. Transfer the mixture into individual ramekins. Put it in the refrigerator at least one hour until set.
Your pudding is ready to serve. You also can put the sauce like fruit sauce or ginger sugar sauce depend on your taste. I hope you can enjoy the pudding well, because it is healthy and also softy delicious.
See you next time…

Indonesia's Instant Noodle

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Hi there everyone! How's it going? So, today i'm going to write a simole recipe using an Indonesian instant noodle, Indomie (or any indonesian instant noodle you can find in an Asian Supermarket). So, enjoy!!

about indomie
Image taken from: indomie


Ingredients:
1 pack of Indomie (any flovor, but choose the one with broth)
1 egg
Vegetable of your choice (suitable with carrot, celery, beans)
1/2 pcs of Sausage (any kind)
Meatball ( if you like. Optional)

Method:
Boil 3 cups of water. When the water starts to bubble, insert the noodle into the water.
while waiting for the noodle to cook, cook the other ingredients.
Cut the carrot, celery, sausage and meatball as youlike, and tou can steam or fry them if you want.
when the noodle soften, turn off the heat and rinse the water off the noodle.
Pour the cooked noodle into a bowl, pour hot water over the noodle.
add seasoning that comes with the pack.
mix evenly.
Put the other ingredients in the bowl.
Crack the egg on top of the noodle while its hot.
Your Indomie is ready to enjoy!!

Indonesia's Instan Noodle
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So, that's all from me today. Tell us what to write next on thw comment section. Until next time, See you! BYE!!



Ketupat Philosophy

Friday, 1 May 2015 / No Comments
Good day guys.. how was your day? I hope you have a wonderful day. Well today my brother ask me about how much the time for us to face the Ramadhan (fasting month for muslim) he was remind me about the celebration of Eid (feast day for muslim after fasting month) and of course the typical food that usualy serve in that day. What is the most familiar Eid food for you guys? Maybe it’s depend on the culture in your place, but in my country Indonesia, that food is Ketupat.
Ketupat Philosophy
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Maybe most of muslim in Indonesia  very familiar about this food. Foods cooked rice wrapped in young coconut leaves, identical with the Eid. In history , Sunan Kalijaga is the first person who introduced Ketupat to the Java community. Once finished cooking, Ketupat is delivered to older relatives.
Ketupat has several meanings. First Katupat is the symbol of togetherness because the Ketupat wrap is made from young coconut leaves that wattled each other become one Ketupat wrap.  Ketupat also reflects  the variety of human error, judging from the complexity woven ketupat wrap. Second, Ketupat is reflecting the cleanliness and purity of heart after beg forgiveness from all the mistakes, seen from a white ketupat if halved. The third reflects the perfection, if viewed from the ketupat diamond shape. All that is connected with the victory of Muslims after a month of fasting and finally stepped on a pure feast day.
Before,  maybe we often eat ketupat but never know about this gorgeous philosphy behind that diamond food. But after know that Ketupat has a lot of beautiful meaning, we can eat this food later with more blessed feeling. Because the food is made for our victory, and become our diamond in Happy Eid day.
That’s all from me today, see you next time.