FRIED TEMPE WITH SAMBAL
Tempe.....this food almost every day available on my dining table, this tempe food can you eat as a snack, just cut into small pieces and then simply fried it, it's easy right.
The basic ingredients of tempe is a soybean, the soybean is processed through the fermentation for about 24 hours. But in this recipe, I do not discuss how to make the Tempe Ok. The tempe which I use here is ready to cook I simply bought it at a supermarket and the price is also very cheap. Even cheap doesn't mean there is no nutrition inside Tempe, to my knowledge Tempe has a pretty good nutrition content. And Tempe is now well-known to the outside Indonesia.
Sambal?? what's that?? Sambal is a spicy sauce made from a variant of chili and mix with herbs and seasonings, all the ingredients are blend with a blender until crushed but not to smooth, or also you can crush manually with "Uleg". Uleg is a traditional tool from Indonesia to crush food.
At this time, I would give the recipe of Fried Tempe With Sambal as usually this is the simple food recipes, there is no distress level to make this recipe. Trust me and see it for yourself.
Ingredients :
- 1 whole square tempe
- 5 cup cooking oil
- 2 piece red tomato
- 100 grams chili
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste
- 3 cloves garlic
- 4 cloves red onion
- 1 piece small mango (unripe)
- 1 piece cucumber
- a dash of basil leaves
- Shredded fried red onion for garnish and flavor
Directions :
- Cut tempeh into square (about 10cm, 10cm wide and 1cm thick) marinate with little bit salt (mix salt with water).
- Cut tomato and chili into random pieces, cut the mango into julienne strips.
- Cut cucumber into four parts (about 5cm long)
Methods :
- SAMBAL: heat 5 cups cooking oil over medium heat, put in tomato, 100 grams chili, 3 cloves garlic, 4 cloves red onion stir fry for 3 minutes and remove. Then mash using a blender and mix with 1/2 cup cooking oil and mix with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 shrimp paste.
- Deep fry tempeh until crispy and remove.
- Put sambal as the base then followed with tempeh on top and garnish with julienne mango, a dash of basil leaves, garnish with shredded fried red onion on top and serve.
Notes :
- This menu can be categorized as a vegetarian menu but you must eliminate the shrimp paste.
- If it's too spicy you can reduce chili and add more tomato.
- This menu is very famous in the Country of Indonesia.
- When you make SAMBAL you can blend with a blender or you can crush and mix it manually.