Ketoprak
Mixed Indonesian Salad with fried tofu
Ketoprak is mostly sold by streetvendor in Indonesia. This Indonesian salad is very delicious and very easy to make. You don't need special skill or treatment to make this most simple Indonesian recipe.
If you are vegetarian, you might like this salad. It's refreshing with cucumber and fresh light peanuts sauce. The sauce contains very much different ingredients than Gado-gado or pecel. Yes we have many kinds of peanuts sauce. This is one of the countless variation of Indonesian sauce.
The Ketoprak Recipe
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serve: 5 peoples
Ingredients:
150 gram thin rice noodle, pour over with heat boiled water for about 5 minutes, set aside.
200 gram mung bean sprouts, pour over with some heat boiled water for 5 minutes, set aside.
1 tofu, cut into little pieces 2 inch x 2 inch
50 gram prawn crackers, deep fried
50 gram fried onion
2 stalk celery, fine chopped
Sauce:
150 gram peanuts
3 chili peppers
5 Birdseye chilies (rawit)
3 cloves garlic
Salt
Sugar
5 tablespoon sweet soya
1 tablespoon white vinegar
125 cc cooked water
Instructions:
1. Make a spice paste of peanuts, garlic, chilies, and Birdseye chilies
2. Put them into pan, add sugar, salt, sweet soya, and white vinegar, stir it, add water.
3. Let them cook in low fire, stir it softly the whole time until the mixture cooks. If you dont stir it, you might get the burn parts on the bottom of your pan.
4. Arrange thin rice noodle, mung bean sprouts, tofu on the dish, pour some peanuts mixture over this.
5. Sprinkle some fried onion, celery and for the last, prawn crackers.
6. Enjoy it.
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