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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
Image taken from: http://goodhousekeeping.co.id/

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…

Recipe Mapo Tofu

Friday, 8 May 2015 / No Comments
Happy happy Friday guys… 

Are you ready to face the weekend? How’s your plan to enjoy the weekend? Hangout with family or maybe stay at home doing nothing like me? Ha-ha enjoy is still special even if you just filled it with a mountain of homework.

Recipes Mapo Tofu
Image taken from: chinasichuanfood

By the way, yesterday I promised that I will posted about the recipes of the food that made from Tofu, our healthy food. And in this post we will talk about Chinese food that’s Mapo Doufu, in Chinese tofu is called as Doufu. Are you a fan of Chinese food? Are you a fan of spicy food? If yes I think you should try to make this own at your home.

Ingredients:

1 pound regular tofu (tender ones)
1/2 cup minced meat-beef or pork
1 and 1/2 tablespoons Doubanjiang
1 teaspoon fermented black beans(also known as dou-chi and fermented soya beans)
1/2 teaspoon salt for soaking the tofu cubes
1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorn or peppercorn powder
1/2 tablespoon light soy sauce
1/2 cup of water or broth
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1 tablespoon rice wine
3 spring onions, finely chopped
1/2 cup of ground beef or pork
2 garlic cloves,finely chopped

Water Starch:

4 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon starch

Instructions:

1. Firstly you need to cut tofu into the square cubes. In the other place, prepare a bowl and pour some water and little amount of salt. Put the tofu cubes into the bowl for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes moved the tofu to the other container and drain.
2. Fry the minced meat with 1 tbsp. of oil, when the meat almost cooked. Transfer out.
3. In the other place, fry doubanjiang, garlic and fermented black beans until the aroma is appear.
4. Add tofu cubes in and turn up the fire. Add around 1/2 cup of water or broth, rice wine and soy sauce. Taste the dish and if you think you need more salt just put it in. wait until boiling.
5. Add the water starch in. stir it. Simmer for around 2 minutes with high fire until become thickened. Put the fried minced meat and some of green onions.
6. Transfer the dish to the serving plate. If you want you can garnish the rest of chopped spring onions on top and Sichuan peppercorn powder.

You can serve with rice, steamed buns, or breads. I hope you can enjoy this spicy food at home to enjoy the weekend. Have a nice weekend guys…



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