Lontong Johore ( Lodeh )
Lodeh or Lontong is a vegetable dish that serve with rice cakes . It has yellow creamy coconut gravy with variety of vegetables and dried soy products as ingredients . There are the hard boiled eggs , fried tofu and the spicy fried chili paste that top this creamy dish thus making it alluring . The lodeh or lontong is normally served as breakfast in many stalls and local restaurants in the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia . During special festive seasons , it is eaten with rice dumplings , along with rendang and the spicy peanut sauce .
The Ingredients required:
Ground
- 12 shallots
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 ½ inch ginger
- 3 stalks lemon grass ( medium – big in
size )
- 1 cm galangal
- 2 tblspn dried prawn
- 2 tblspn anchovies
- 3-4 candlenut
Other ingredients
- ½ kg thick fresh coconut milk
- 1/2 kg light coconut milk
- 500 ml water
- 2 pieces of tempe ( fermented soya bean ) - halves and cut into 1 cm in width
- 5 - 10 long beans - cut into an inch in lengthtwise
- Quarter of a whole Yam bean - cut into strip of an inch
- 2 long brinjals - quartered and cut into smaller pieces or diced
- 2 carrots - scrap skin off and cut into strips ( An inch in lengthtwise )
- 2 -3 pieces - dried daun salam ( bay leaves )
- A little bit of oil for frying
- salt to taste
- A t/spn turmeric powder as yellow colorant
To be soaked in water:
- A
bowl of glass noodles
- Dried tofu – soak, once soft ,cut to an inch in pieces
- A small bowl of dried banana flower ( Pucuk / bunga pisang )
- A small bowl of dried black dark mushroom ( Telinga gajah )
To do :
Heat oil in a pot. Sautee the blended ingredients until fragrant and add in the light coconut milk with the salam leaves. Leave to boil. Once boiled, add the thick coconut milk , stir continuously to avoid lumps. Simmer over slow fire. Once the milk begin to boil , put in the mushroom , the dried banana flower . Leave all the dried ingredients to soften . Add in the vegetables . Let it simmer to cook . Then , add in the glass noodles, the tofu with the fried tempes and salt . Stir . Turn off the heat once the ingredients settle.
