Healthy Vegetarian Breakfast - Ketoprak, Delicious Noodles Salad with Peanut Sauce

Recipes of Asian Foods - Making a healthy vegetarian breakfast is not difficult. There are lots of menus that you can try, including the Ketoprak menu from Indonesia.

Indonesian food is famous for its distinctive taste. One of the unique flavours of Indonesia is seasoning or peanut sauce. Indonesian people really like peanuts to be processed into spices or sauces. You don't have to worry about some ingredients that you might think are hard to come by. You can get it at the nearest Asian food store, or you can also buy it online.

The Ketoprak menu is a famous breakfast menu in Indonesia, especially Jakarta. Besides chicken porridge, ketoprak is usually an option for breakfast for the people there. This menu has the main ingredients, namely vegetables and vermicelli. Indonesian people usually eat rice cake or ketupat as a source of carbohydrates, but you can choose carbohydrate foods according to your taste.

With peanut sauce the primary taste, this ketoprak menu is worth trying at home. Here is how to make ketoprak a healthy vegetarian menu for your breakfast.

The main ingredient of Ketoprak

• 4 pieces of white tofu
• 100 grams of bean sprouts
• 6 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce (you can get some brands like Bango or ABC at Asian food stores or online)
• 2 pieces of rice cake (or you can replace it with potatoes and other carbohydrate sources)
• 200 grams of vermicelli

Peanut sauce ingredients

• 300 grams of peanuts
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 teaspoon salt
• water
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 8 red chillies (if you don't like spicy, you can reduce the amount or not use it at all)
• 4 tablespoons of tamarind water (you can get it at Asian food stores or online)

Supplementary material

• 1 tablespoon fried red onion
• shrimp crisp

How to make ketoprak

1. Fry the white tofu until the skin turns yellow.
2. Flush the bean sprouts with hot water
3. Puree the fried peanuts, brown sugar, red cayenne pepper, and garlic (Indonesians usually grind it with a mortar, but you can use an electric blender to grind the ingredients)
4. Add salt, tamarind water, and boiled water to taste, and stir until the sauce thickens.
5. Take a serving plate, and arrange it from bottom to top in the following order: lontong (or potatoes), diced tofu, bean sprouts, and vermicelli. After the ingredients are set, drizzle with peanut sauce, then sprinkle with fried onions.
6. You can use some other vegetables according to your taste.
7. Add sweet soy sauce and crackers to add flavour.

That's a healthy vegetarian menu for Indonesian-style breakfast you can try at home.