Lontong Rice
Ingredients:
2 cups of short grain rice or long grain rice
3 cups water or 3 1/2 cups water
Equipment: Rice cooker & Hand blender or Blender
Methods:
- Wash and clean the rice. Cooked the rice in the rice cooker.
- Once cooked and the rice is still hot. Blender the hot cooked rice until it is fine.
- Pour the blendered cooked rice into a pan or a casserole dish. Spray the pan with oil before pouring the blendered rice.
- Place cling-wrap over the poured rice and tap it with your palm so that the rice is nicely compacted. Let it cool for a few hours before cutting the rice.
Note:
- Short grain rice is preferred but if it's not available long grain rice can also be used.
- Besides using the rice cooker, one can also buy rice in plastic packet. Open the package with ziploc and scoop the amount needed.
- Wash and clean the rice and let it dry for awhile or dampen before putting the rice back into the plastic.
- Fill a pot with water and drop the plastic containing rice into the pot filled with water. Cooked the rice for 1 hour or until the rice is cooked. Then let it cool for hours before cutting.
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Lontong soup
Ingredients:
Small size Jicama (sengkuang)
Long Beans
Carrots
Cabbage (Optional)
Extra firm Taufu (optional)
Soy Tempeh
minced onion
minced garlic
minced ginger
2 tbsp chilli paste
1 1/2 can coconut milk
1 1/2 tbsp tumeric powder
5 cups water
salt & white pepper to taste
Methods:
- Slice thickly horizontally(Juliene) all the vegetables. Cut the tempeh according to your disgression. Marinate the tempeh with tumeric, salt, & pepper and set aside for a few minutes. After 10 minutes, fry the tempeh until golden brown and set aside. If using taufu, similar step need to be adopted.
- Heat oil and saute the onions, garlic, salt, pepper, 2 shakes tumeric, and ginger in a pot for a few seconds.
- Then pour 1 cup of coconut milk into the sauteed mixture. Stir gently and add 2 cups of water.
- Pour the coconut milk into the mixture and spinkle the tumeric into the pot making sure that the color turn thickly yellowish. Stir the soup for 1 or 2 minutes or until it boils.
- Add the fried taufu or tempeh into the pot for a few seconds. Then add all the vegetables.
- Let the soup cooked until it boils and add salt and pepper to taste.
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