What is Ketoprak? Ketoprak is a simple street vegetarian dish from Jakarta, Indonesia, that tastes mostly of peanuts and spice but is chockfull of carbohydrates. This dish consists of tofu, gado-gado, pecel, vegetables and rice cake, rice vermicelli served in peanut sauce. Just prior to eating the salad, pour the peanut sauce and mix well.
Serves 4-6
Cook time: 1 hr, prep time: 30 min
Ketoprak ingredients:
- Salad
- 2 block firm tofu (about 300 gram), drained and cut into ½ inch x ½ inch x 1 inch
- 100 gram bean sprouts
- 200 gram vermicelli, soaked in cold water until soft
- 1 cucumber, peeled and cut into small wedges
Peanut sauce
- 100 gram peanut with skin on
- 5 cloves garlic
- 5 Thai chilies
- 1 tbsp palm sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 175 ml - 200 ml warm drinking water
Accompaniments
- red crackers
- sweet soy sauce
- fried shallot
Ketoprak preparation:
- Heat enough oil in a pot for deep frying.
- Deep fry peanuts until a shade darker.
- Deep fry tofu until lightly golden brown.
- Deep fry red crackers until they fluff up.
- Deep fry garlic until lightly golden brown.
- Deep fry Thai chilies until a shade lighter.
- Boil a pot of water and blanch bean sprouts. Remove with slotted spoon and set aside.
- Blanch vermicelli, drain and set aside.
Peanut sauce
- Grind peanut, garlic, thai chilies, palm sugar, and salt until becoming a thick paste.
- Add water and mix well.
- Assemble the salad
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