KOMPAS.com – Sapo knows that one of the food menus in Chinese food restaurants is suitable for serving as a dinner menu.
Sapo tofu is made with tofu, carrots, broccoli, meatballs, shiitake mushrooms, onions, garlic, shrimp, squid, spring onions and honey corn.
Check out the recipe for sapo tofu in the style of a Chinese food restaurant, quoted from the book “Food Menu “PO SABAR” @ Dokterkoki” (2021) by Mike Herawati published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
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Tofu sapo recipe
Material:
- 1 tofu, cut into 1 1/2 – 2 cm thickness
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 1 broccoli, stem removed, chopped
- 3-4 meatballs, sliced
- 3 shiitake mushrooms, wash, soak in hot water. Iris. The water soaked in shiitake mushrooms can be used as mushroom stock
- 1/2 onion, sliced
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed, finely sliced
- Prawns and squid to taste (for those who are allergic, you can omit it)
- 100-150 ml shrimp stock, if available (from boiled shrimp heads and shells)
- 1 spring onion, sliced obliquely
- 1-2 young corn, sliced
- 1/4 bell pepper
Additional ingredients:
- 1-2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp sweet soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp sesame oil
- Sugar to taste
- Pepper to taste
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1. Coat the cut tofu with cornstarch, then fry in lots of oil until skinned or yellow, then set aside.
2. Take two tablespoons of the oil left over from frying the tofu, then saute the onions and garlic until fragrant. Add ginger.
3. Add the meatballs and sliced carrots and broccoli.
4. Add shrimp stock (ordinary water if you don’t have shrimp stock) or you can use the water used to soak the shiitake mushrooms.
5. Add oyster sauce, sesame oil, sweet soy sauce, pepper, granulated sugar to taste.
6. Cook until the carrots and broccoli soften (prick test with a fork).
7. Add shiitake mushrooms, add green onions.
8. If you cook shrimp and squid, cook briefly until they change color.
9. Add the fried tofu, stir well.
10. Just before lifting, add the remaining cornstarch which was previously used to coat the tofu, but first dissolve the cornstarch in a little water, the function of the cornstarch is to thicken the sapo sauce. Stir well, adjust the taste, serve.
