This is one of my favorite food from East Java (Lamongan), Indonesia.
In my neighborhood every day, there is a strolling food vendors. Usually @ 9 pm, we still had supper! If you are have a healthy living style, it's crazy to think to have this big supper @ 9 pm but I did that when I was young. I can't miss this food after long discussion w/my parents.
This is the recipe how to make 'Tahu campur Lamongan' ( Mixed Tofu beef soup) according to my mom recipe.
You need:
- a tendon, beef bone and all the good meat to make the broth.
- deep fried tofu, bean sprout, noodle, cassava fritter (lentho) and shrimp paste (petis)
- shrimp crackers
The INGREDIENTS
Broth
- Grounds: Red pepper, shallot, garlic, coriander, kencur, ginger, turmeric, cumin and salt.
- Saute all the ingredients after you grounded very well like a paste.
- Add green onion, lime leaf, lemon grass and galangal (laos).
Cassava fritters:
- Grounds: shallot, garlic, red pepper, coriander, kencur, lime leaf, laos, terasi, bay leaf and salt.
- Mixed the paste with ground cassava
- Deep fry it one spoon to make a fritter.
How to cook it ..
- Cook the beef until well done.
- Mixed all the ingredients that you already sauteed
- Let the broth cooked well done
How to serve it
- Put a little shrimp paste (as desire) and sambal if you like spicy.
- Cut the green lettuce into a bite size
- Top it with noodle, bean sprout, tofu, cassava and shrimp crackers
- Pour the broth over it.
Now .. ready to eat ..hot sweet spicy beef soup .. Have fun to try it!
Note:
- I did not use measurement for all the ingredients. It is all depend on how much broth you make it.
- If you know how to cook, you will know how to measure this for sure.
