Traditional vegetarian food : Tempe and Tofu

kasiyanta · April 22, 2019, 5:59am

Traditional vegetarian food: Tempe and Tofu

Village communities in Indonesia are used to vegetarian food.
The legendary vegetarian food is tofu and tempeh.
Tofu and tempeh are foods with soybean staple ingredients.
For the people of Tempe village and know foods that are cheap and easy to find.
Tofu is soybeans blended, the juice is taken.
Tempe is a fermented soybean.
In my post, the daily vegetarian food of the villagers: Fried tempeh, fried tofu, boiled starfish, cucumber.
This food is eaten with chili sauce.

Petra_M · April 22, 2019, 6:13am

Hello @kasiyanta ,

Thanks for sharing!

This dish looks very delicious. I like tofu, but I think it’s difficult to find places where they prepare it in a proper way. Where did you have it? What is your favorite dish from tofu?

kasiyanta · April 22, 2019, 6:32am

Hi @Petra_M

thanks.
For those of us who live in Indonesia it is very easy to find out.
Tofu can be fried and eaten directly with chili.
Tofu can also be mixed with other ingredients such as meat or vegetables as vegetables, eat rice.
Favorite tofu dishes are tofu meatballs, fried tofu, which is filled with meatballs.
Tofu meatballs can be eaten immediately with the addition of sauce or chili.

Petra_M · April 22, 2019, 7:02am

Thanks for the reply @kasiyanta !

Tofu meatballs sound very delicious, and I love chilli too. I think, I’m going to try it.

kasiyanta · April 22, 2019, 4:48pm

Hallo @Petra_M

There are many kinds of meatball tofu.
There are tofu meatballs that are only given meatballs and some are added with eggs.
Fried tofu with meatballs in it, soaked in eggs and fried again.

see this picture:

Petra_M · April 23, 2019, 6:19am

Thanks for the reply @kasiyanta !

It looks very delicious and seems easy to prepare. I hope I can find good tofu and I’ll try your recipe.

TarieKoe · April 24, 2019, 5:37am

TEMPE

Is traditional food made by fermented soya bean, mix with some fungus powder ( special fungus)

Tempe rich of mineral too

We can make many kind of other side food

Even we can make brownies or lopis ( usually made from glutinous rice)

Most people just make fried tempe as snack or eat with rice

Proud of traditional food of indonesia

kasiyanta · April 24, 2019, 7:46am

Hai @TarieKoe

Terima kasih sudah berbagi tentang tempe.

Tempe saat ini sudah mengalami perkembangan.

Dulu tempe dibungkus kecil kecil memakai daun.

Sekarang tempe dibuat tebal besar dan dibungkus pakai plastik.

Kalau mau digoreng baru dipotong kecil kecil.

Salam

AngieYC · April 24, 2019, 1:40pm

Hello @TarieKoe ,

Thank you for sharing, tempe is one of my favorite Indonesian food too, sweet soy sauce and terasi are two of my favorite dipping. What’s yours?

You might not know about this but we have an existing thread by @kasiyanta about Traditional vegetarian food : Tempe and Tofu and I am merging your post there to keep Connect organize.

kasiyanta · April 26, 2019, 4:36am

Various tempeh dishes.
Tempe can be made as a cooking method but the texture of tempe remains unchanged.
What is different is only the shape.
This tempe is cooked with fried.