I like to choose sprouts, especially mung bean sprouts as ingredients for cooking. In addition to being rich in nutrients and believed to be good for reproductive health, sprouts are also easy to combine with various vegetables.
Like this time I will combine bean sprouts with a mixture of melinjo leaves and tofu. How to make this dish is quite easy and it is suitable as a daily side dish.
Before I tell you how to cook this dish, I want to tell you a little bit, why in the end I decided to cook this dish.
Actually, I have now moved to a new area to a new house with my husband because my husband has work.
That's why you will also see pictures that are not like the usual ones that I usually do at my house, I didn't bring my photo props so I only took pictures with the available props in this new rented house.
Because I don't know the locations of the markets in my new area, I decided to shop online. Initially I wanted to buy bay leaves, but because there was a problem with my online vegetable purchase, what finally arrived were melinjo leaves instead of bay leaves.
Melinjo leaves are quite popular in Indonesia. I'm not sure what the name of this vegetable is in English because this plant is more popular in Indonesia, the Philippines and so on. Usually what is cooked is the young melinjo leaves while the old ones are not good to cook. Young melinjo leaves are usually just stir-fried with various other vegetables or added with hot chili sauce.
This is what young melinjo leaves look like. The taste of melinjo leaves is not bitter but there is a strong sensation that is unique that I can't explain in words. But most importantly there is no bitter taste from these melinjo leaves, so if this is your first time trying melinjo leaves in Indonesian dishes, I think you will like it.
In this melinjo leaf dish, I will stir-fry the ingredients with chili sauce, a specialty of the dishes that my husband and I like. Stay tuned.
THE INGREDIENTS
- 100 grams of melinjo leaves
- 100 grams of tofu
- 100 grams of mung bean sprouts
seasoning
- enough red chilies
- 5 cloves of shallots
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 teaspoons of salt
- 1/2 teaspoons of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoons of mushroom powder
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS
STEP 1
Prepare the chili sauce first. I use a mortar to make the chili and onion seasoning.
You can also use a blender but don't blend the spices too finely. Add salt, sugar, and mushroom stocks or mushroom powder.
STEP 2
Cut melinjo leaves into pieces. I just use my bare hands without using a knife because young melinjo leaves are not hard. So it's easy to tear them with just my bare hands.
STEP 3
Also, cut tofu into pieces. You can cut it into cubes, or even small triangles like I did.
STEP 4
Heat a little vegetable oil. Then, add chili sauce. Saute the spices until fragrant.
Once fragrant, add water up to 250 ml of water.
STEP 5
Add all veggies: sprouts, melinjo leaves, also tofu. Cook them for about 5 minutes with high heat.
I use a lid on the cooking pan so they can cook perfectly. Then, lift, and they are ready to be served!
THE RESULTS
This is the result. It looks like a typical Indonesian dish. 😊 This dish can be enjoyed for 4 servings. But there were only two of us. So, we enjoyed this dish for lunch, also dinner. So, I don't get tired of cooking dinner again.
Spicy, also savory. A delicious combination, which is comfortable on our tongues. Complements rice. Although simple, but appetizing.
This dish was indeed created by accident. But in fact I enjoy cooking melinjo leaves which I haven't cooked for a long time. In the past, my late mother often cooked melinjo leaves. So, a beautiful memory.
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Anggrek Lestari
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I never know that you can use Melinjo leaves as an ingredient for stir fry meal mbak, because we usually only use the fruit, either for cracker or just by boiling it.
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Only young leaves can be stir fry 😊
That dish looks so comforting and flavorful! The mix of melinjo leaves, sprouts, and tofu sounds like a perfect balance of textures and taste.
Wow it looks so delicious, really really delicious, I really like it ❤️
Hello lady @anggreklestari
I love the ingredients you used to prepare this delicious dish
Your presentation of the dish is beautiful
Well presented and the food looks tasty and light. I've been eating a lot of tofu and chili as of late due to he treated to a lot asian cuisine. Tofu really is an ingredient you can do a lot with.
This looks really yummy. Looks like noodles in Africa. Thanks for sharing a yummy recipe.
Greetings my dear friend! Congratulations on your new change of home and area, every change brings good things like this dish you show us. In my area there are no such leaves, nor tofu just for the chili sauce. Uff this dish looks really delicious. I will miss seeing you in your farming. Hugs
Wow it looks so yummy and healthy I think it also contains lot of proteins and fiber right??
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This dish looks healthy and nourishing. I love how smooth the leaves are and it's my first time seeing such and even the name doesn't sound close to being familiar. I love your step by step process on your meal preparation ✨️
Enjoy your new rented apartment 👌
It looks like the food is very tasty. Your recipes are very good to me. The food with the leaf looks great.Sorting food has been very nice.
I had to look at the leaves again. We call this bagô in Tagalog, if I am not mistaken. We add it in soups. Yes, it's not bitter at all.
I am sweating from all those chilies! Goodness. 🥵🥵🥵
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This is certainly going to be delicious, and it looks healthy too.
Oh this looks so delicious and light. Are you preparing these for iftar or sahur? Maybe you can share practical menus for iftar or sahur with us haha.
I hope you will be as happy in your new home as you were before. Will you be there permanently or is this a temporary move?
Yes, this dish for iftar anyway
Yeah, this is permanently move but temporary house 😊
I hope you and your family having mubarak ramadhan 😊 how's your fasting?
Unlike every Ramadan, fasting is much easier for me this month. I am less thirsty and less hungry, so I try to eat less at iftar. How's yours? I hope it is easy for you too.
Yeah, for me it's easier
When you have many activities, I think the fasting is easier, time fly really fast
That's so true, if there is something that you can forget about fasting 😅
It must take a long time to cook melinjo leaves until they are perfectly cooked? Wow, this is a very delicious simple dish!
I wasn't aware that that leaves can be eaten, hehe.. dunno its term here..
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melinjo leaves are very delicious, I like them stir-fried like this, they are very delicious😍
That's a dish with many fresh and healthy ingredients: chilies, shallots, garlic, mung bean sprouts, tofu and melinjo leaves (which are something new for me)! Thanks for sharing this interesting recipe @anggreklestari!
This looks yummy, thanks for sharing your recipe