Mun Tahu

December had been a very busy month for me and sorry for not updating the blog for more than a month! It had been a hectic month both in the office and home. First of all, I would like to wish you late Merry Christmas and a blessed happy new year 2014 to everyone. I wish that you all the very best and I believe 2014 will be an awesome year for all of us. Believing for something greater in 2014, and more great recipes to come too this year ! 🙂 🙂 My boyfriend and I decided to fly to Semarang (Located in Central Java, Indonesia) and met our family there for short getaway trip. You could easily guess what we did the whole day, eat and sleep.. haha! Well, anyway.. I would be sharing some photos from my culinary trip on my next post. Meanwhile, I have a great recipe to share with you to start of this wonderful 2014.

The dish that I want to share with you is called Mun Tahu ..My mom used to cook this dish alot when I was little or if I was not feeling too well. This dish has been influenced greatly by the Chinese immigrants who settled down in Indonesia long time ago, the Chinese loves to use of beancurd, oyster sauce and  soya sauce added new flavoring to the Indonesian dish. For sure, you could still notice several similarities between Mapo Tofu and Mun Tahu. Mapo tofu is indeed a Szechuan dish It is a combination of tofu (bean curd) set in a spicy chili- and bean-based sauce, typically a thin,chili infused oil, and often cooked with fermented black beans and minced meat, usually pork or beef while as Mun Tahu is not spicy at all, the use of minced beef or pork mix with shrimp and oyster sauce will give you milder version of Mapo Tofu (minus the chili and bean based sauce). Mun tahu has delicious gravy and it is a good and healthy dish for your children , and a not complicated recipe. You all can cook this !

MUN TAHU

Ingredients :

• 2 Chinese tofu, diced 2×2 cm
• 200 gr minced pork (If you don’t eat pork  you may substitute this with minced beef or chicken )
• 100 gr peeled shrimp, diced
• 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2 tbsp corn starch , dilute it with cold water
• spring onions, thinly sliced
• 300 ml water
• 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (angciu) (omit the cooking wine if it is not available in your country)
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• Sugar, salt and pepper to taste

How to make :

• Heat oil and saute garlic and ginger until fragrant.
• Put in minced pork, stir-fry until the meat changes its color,
• Toss in the diced shrimp, stir-fry until the meat changes its color
• Put it 1tbsp Chinese cooking wine and stir for few seconds
• Add water (you can control how much water  you want for this dish as I love this to be more gravy), soy sauce, oyster sauce, and tofu
• Add sugar, salt and pepper to taste
• Stir until the water boils, add in the corn starch solution and stir till it thickens
• Add in the sliced spring onions , stir for few seconds and voila ! Ready to serve 🙂

I did bring them to the office for my lunch the next day , the leftovers taste even better ! haha..This dish is really easy to make !