Cooking Vegetarian Dish
I am not a vegan or vegetarian, but I love everything about it. I just eat more fruits and veggies, and eat fish, poultry or meat infrequently. So, today I attempt to cook vegetarian dish using tempeh as the main ingredient. Tempeh is a traditional soy product originating from Indonesia. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. Tempeh is often used as a protein substitute in vegetarian dish, because its texture is similar to meat. It can also be easily found almost everywhere in Indonesia, because it is healthy and cheap. Indonesian usually cooks tempeh by frying it or seasoned with variety of traditional sauce, sweet sauce, chilli sauce, turmeric sauce, coconut milk, and many more. But today, I am trying out something different, I am making Kung Pao Tempeh.
Ingredients:
- 1 block tempeh
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 onion
- 2 leeks, finely chopped
- 4 dried chili
- 1/2 ounce of roasted peanut
- 2 tbs of all purpose flour
- Kung Pao sauce
Instructions:
1. Cut the tempeh into cubes, coat it with flour, fry them until golden brown and set aside.
2. Heat up a wok with 1 tablespoon of oil, add garlic, onion and stir for about 30 seconds. After that, add in dried chill and stir until it gives aroma. Add roasted peanut and fried tempeh.
3. Add Kung Pao sauce and continue stirring until all the ingredients are fully coated. Don't forget to add salt and pepper to taste. Here Im using Kung Pao sauce, you can make it from scratch by combining Chinese black vinegar, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, water and cornstarch.
4. Lastly, add chopped leeks, stir it until everything is combined. Voila! Kung Pao Tempeh is ready to serve with steamed rice.
It is very easy to cook and the ingredients are easily found at the local market (here in Indonesia). Enjoy it with steamed rice or by itself, its up to you.
Thanks for reading! :)
Ingredients:
- 1 block tempeh
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 onion
- 2 leeks, finely chopped
- 4 dried chili
- 1/2 ounce of roasted peanut
- 2 tbs of all purpose flour
- Kung Pao sauce
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| the ingredients |
1. Cut the tempeh into cubes, coat it with flour, fry them until golden brown and set aside.
2. Heat up a wok with 1 tablespoon of oil, add garlic, onion and stir for about 30 seconds. After that, add in dried chill and stir until it gives aroma. Add roasted peanut and fried tempeh.
3. Add Kung Pao sauce and continue stirring until all the ingredients are fully coated. Don't forget to add salt and pepper to taste. Here Im using Kung Pao sauce, you can make it from scratch by combining Chinese black vinegar, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, water and cornstarch.
4. Lastly, add chopped leeks, stir it until everything is combined. Voila! Kung Pao Tempeh is ready to serve with steamed rice.
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| Fried tempeh |
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| Chopped onion, garlic, dried chill and leeks |
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| Stir fry, stir fry, stir fry |
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| Tada! Kung Pao Tempeh is ready to serve |
Thanks for reading! :)
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