Kare - Curry

Kare Tahu-Tofu Curry


Today's recipe is about a simple curry.   Delicious, creamy with a golden colour is Kare Tahu or tofu curry Javanese style.   To cook this curry, you need these herbs; turmeric, onion, garlic, kaffir lime leaves, coriander seeds, lemon juice and fresh galangal.
You can add extra ingredients such as potato or boiled egg and vegetables-cabbage/snake beans or green beans. Serve the curry with steamed rice, eat it fresh - on the day that you cook the curry.
It is a quick curry to cook, I would say from the preparation to serve, it needs only thirty minutes.

Kare Tahu-Tofu Curry Javanese Style

Recipe

Kare Tahu

Ingredients:
250 g dry firm tofu or firm fried tofu, diced
2 potatoes, peeled and diced
1 cup snake beans or green beans
Herbs and Spices

2 teaspoons dry turmeric
1 small onion and  2 cloves of garlic
2 kaffir lime leaves,
1/4  quarter spoon of coriander seed
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
a slice of galangal
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 cup of coconut milk or more
2 tablespoon oil

Method
Grind all the herbs and spice with mortar and pestle to make a rough paste
In a pot sauté the coarse paste in oil until fragrant.
Add in the galangal and lemon juice than the tofu
Cook them for a few minutes.
Add in the coconut milk, salt and the sugar bring it to simmer, uncovered the pot
Keep on cooking, let stay simmering for 5 minutes
Add the potato and the beans, keep on cooking over a low for 5 minutes
Cook a few minutes further until the beans and potato are soft and tender
To serve:  Transfer the curry to a serving bowl and serve it with steamed rice.

Enjoy the recipe, give it a go, it is a delicious and very healthy vegetarian dish.

It has been a busy day since yesterday Monday,  playing sport, gardening, visiting friends and attending an information night at the Table Tennis club.
Today has been a good day, another productive day, I did gardening, reporting some of the orchids.  I got at least two dozen large cymbidium orchid plants to look after.  It is very hard going to report orchids, I hope next year they will give me a lot of flowers. It is essential not to forget to water them during the hot summer months. 


Until next time
Susy

My  Cymbidiums