Good morning!
How is the weather on your end? Lovely I hope. As for me, it’s still heavily snowing up north, joy 🤪
Yesterday was so freaking windy, and wind always makes Winter even worse 😅 Luckily I have a great Indonesian dish, to warm my dead Canadian soul 😅
If you like peanut sauce, as simple as tofu omelet, is more than heaven. Give this a try 😊
oh! I may have said East Java for the origin of this dish, but it’s more to Central Java, come to think of it. Well I am from East Kalimantan, we have it there as well 😉
200-250 g roasted unsalted peanuts
3 garlic
2 red bird eye chilies
200 ml water
1 tsp soft shrimp paste (petis)
1 tbsp tamarind paste
Enough water
3-4 tbsp sweet soy sauce (kecap manis)
Salt to taste
8 eggs
1-2 blocks firm tofu
Salt
2-4 tbsp cornstarch
Oil for frying.
Compressed rice
Beansprouts
Fried shallots
Let’s make the peanut sauce first, by blending everything except tamarind paste, soft shrimp paste, and sweet soy sauce, in a food processor, until smooth texture. Pour mixture onto a pan, then add in tamarind and petis, stir to combine well, cook until bubbly, adding more water as needed, and sweetened slightly with sweet soy sauce (some like it sweeter, some like it spicy, so adjust to your liking)
Beat eggs and crush tofu roughly (or cube them if you like), mix in cornstarch and season with salt. Make omelet!
Serve omelet topped with either blanched or fresh beansprouts, along with lontong (compressed rice), and topped with peanut sauce. If you have, sprinkle fried shallots too and enjoy 🙂
Tahu Telur
Ingredients
Peanut Sauce
- 200-250 g roasted unsalted peanuts
- 3 garlic
- 2 red bird eye chilies
- 200 ml water
- 1 tsp soft shrimp paste petis
- 1 tbsp tamarind paste
- Enough water
- 3-4 tbsp sweet soy sauce kecap manis
- Salt to taste
Tahu Telur (Omelet)
- 8 eggs
- 1-2 blocks firm tofu
- Salt
- 2-4 tbsp cornstarch
- Oil for frying.
- Compressed rice
- Beansprouts
- Fried shallots
Instructions
- Let’s make the peanut sauce first, by blending everything except tamarind paste, soft shrimp paste, and sweet soy sauce, in a food processor, until smooth texture. Pour mixture onto a pan, then add in tamarind and petis, stir to combine well, cook until bubbly, adding more water as needed, and sweetened slightly with sweet soy sauce (some like it sweeter, some like it spicy, so adjust to your liking)
- Beat eggs and crush tofu roughly (or cube them if you like), mix in cornstarch and season with salt. Make omelet!
- Serve omelet topped with either blanched or fresh beansprouts, along with lontong (compressed rice), and topped with peanut sauce. If you have, sprinkle fried shallots too and enjoy 🙂
