KOMPAS.com – Tofu is a food ingredient that is often found in the kitchen, and is easy to process into various dishes. One of them is pepes tofu.
Pepes tofu offers a savory taste, with the distinctive aroma of banana leaves used as wrapping. Apart from that, pepes tofu is also healthy because it is cooked without cooking oil.
The following is the recipe and how to make tofu pepes, reported from Instagram @My.foodplace, Monday (13/1/2025).
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Material:
- 100 grams of white tofu
- 1 bunch basil
- Green onions to taste (finely sliced)
- 1 egg
- 3 cloves of red onion
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 2 candlenuts
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon stock powder
- Enough banana leaves to wrap
- 2 centimeters galangal
- 2 centimeters galangal
- 2 curly red chilies
- 2 binocular red chilies
- 1 tablespoon dried ebi (finely ground)
- 3 sprigs basil (siangi)
How to make tofu pepes
- Puree the shallots, garlic, curly red chilies, binocular red chilies, galangal, candlenuts and galangal until smooth. Set aside.
- Mash the white tofu using a fork until smooth. Add the sliced spring onions and ground spices to it, then stir until evenly mixed.
- Add the mashed ebi, stir again. After that, add basil leaves and eggs. Stir gently until all ingredients are evenly mixed.
- Take a banana leaf, then put two to three tablespoons of tofu mixture into it. Place one bird’s eye chili on top of the tofu mixture, then wrap it neatly and attach a toothpick to both ends.
- Heat the steamer until the water boils. Steam the tofu pepes for approximately 30 minutes until cooked. Remove and serve while warm.
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