EASY WAY TO MAKE TAHU (BEANCURD)

In Indonesia the name is Tahu, Tahu classified as old-fashioned food. Based on the literature of ancient China and Japan. Manufacture of tahu and soy milk was first introduced by LIU AN in the year 164BC. In Japan, commonly known as Tohu. Whereas in European countries and arround there, known as soybean curd, beancurd or tofu. Such as tempe, tahu is also known as the food of the people because it is cheap and accessible to all economic class.

 
The following will be explain an easy way to make tahu:

 
HOW TO MAKE TAHU

 
ingredients:

• 1 ltr pure soy milk

How to Make:

• Boil the soy milk in a saucepan until boiling, after boiled, let stand for 5-7 minutes 
• Add a additional ingredients to preserving and plumping, stir well(this step can be skip if we make tahu for personal consumption) 
• strain the boiled soy milk using a thin cloth sieve until the water runs out and only the dregs are left alone. 
• Put in a mold, then put the ballast that functions to press the dregs until the water content is completely discharged. 
• remove tahu from the mold, cut to taste, and ready for use

easy right.. ??

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ONCOM RECIPE

Oncom is an Indonesian original product made ​​from fermentation process. Based on the type of main ingridients used, oncom divided into two kind, that is red oncom and black oncom. When the red oncom usually made from tofu pulp, black oncom made ​​from peanut oilcake (bungkil) that have a softer texture.

This time I will share how to make oncom

 ingredients:

1 kg Peanuts
100 grams oncom Yeast

How to make oncom:

• Clean the peanuts, then rough-grind the peanuts until formed peanuts oilcake. 
• Squeeze peanuts oilcake to remove the oil content in peanuts oilcake. 
• Formed this peanuts oil cake to a round plate 
• Soak the peanuts oilcake into cooked water for about 7 hours until it turns into oncom powder 
• Store oncom powder in a bamboo basket to seep down the water and let stand overnight 
• Steamed oncom powder until tender, and then formed to rectangular. 
• Leave the formed oncom powder for about 12 hours 
• Sprinkle the “formed oncom powder” with oncom yeast and then pad also covered it with sack tightly. 
• Wait until oncom is mildewed. 
• After it's truly wildewed, cut into pieces according to taste and place oncom on woven bamboo until slightly dry 
• Oncom ready to be consumed

okey, goodluck and enjoy making

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Step by Step: How to Make Your Own Tempe.

May be useful, especially for my brother, Indonesian people who migrate out of the country. It is recommended to entrusted to friends / neighbors  or anyone who is going to Indonesia, to buy ragi tempe (tempe yeast) - because it's special yeast-, can not use the other yeast which is usually used to make a cake / bread.

For you who lived in Germany, for your info that tempe yeast can be obtained by contacting:

    Dian Suprapto

    Nürnberg

    Email Address = dsuprapto@web.de 

For you who lived in USA, any info, can be obtained by contacting:

    GEM Cultures

    30301 Sherwood Road

    Fort Bragg, CA 95437

    Telp : (707) 964-2922

They have all kind of the yeast (except yeast for oncom). if it's too complicated to make your own Tempe, there is a woman from Indonesia who produce Tempe, woman named Christine in San Gabriel (Los Angeles area) - more info may be you can asked to GEM Cultures.

  

 How to make :

 Prepare 1 kg of soy beans.

 And 2 grams of yeast tempe.

Wash clean the soybeans and soak for 24 hours.

After soaking for 24 hours, such as soybean blooms that look like the picture above it.

 Start-wringing the soybean until the husk off.

After clean, pour the soy beans into the pot and give it water sufficiently. Boiled soy beans for about 30 minutes. During soybeans boiled white foam will appear like the picture above this.

After boiling for 30 minutes, remove the remaining water in the pot. Then, put it back pan contains soybeans above the stove. Stir, do not too scorch. This process is performed to drain the soybeans. Do not be too long - because soybeans is scorched easily.

 Pour the soy beans into soy bean container that makes it easy to cool.

Once cool, sprinkle the tempe yeast as much as 2 grams and stir well.

Prepare plastic for soybean container with size to taste. Enter soybeans into plastic to a thickness of about 2-3 cm.

 Closed the plastic wraper: can use the way as shown above with wax.

Then holes in the plastic that already contain soy beans with a knife - approximately 8 holes to each side of the upper and lower side.

Save the tempe in the cabinet (picture above to use the kitchen cabinets). Padestal that is used to store, is a refrigerator rack that fouled the bottom, so there is any some air circulation. Let stand for approximately 36 hours.

Caution: for who migrated in the country that have cold temperatures, sometimes, tempe 

was wrapped in a towel first, to make more warm before enter into the cabinet.

 After 36 hours, tempe is ready to be processed..

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