ingredients:
For omelette
- 300 g tofu, cut into 2 cm cubes
- 5 eggs, lightly whisked
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
For sauce
- 5 cloves garlic
- 8 red chilies
- 3 bird's eye chilies (optional)
- 2 tsp shrimp paste, belacan
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp palm sugar, gula melaka
- 2 tbsp kecap manis
- 100 g peanuts, roasted or deep-fried and ground
- 150 ml water
- Oil for deep-frying peanuts and chilies
- Condiments
- 1 cucumber, quartered and sliced thinly
- 5 lettuce, shredded finely
- 100 g beansprouts, blanched or raw
- 2 stalks Chinese celery, chopped
- 2 stalks spring onion, chopped
- Fried shallot flakes
directions:
- To prepare peanut sauce, deep-fry garlic and chilies in a bit of oil for 3 minutes. Drain.
- Combine chilies, shrimp paste, salt and palm sugar in a food processor or mortar and pestle. Grind into smooth paste.
- Transfer to bowl and dilute with water.
- Deep-fry peanuts and grind the peanuts until slightly coarse.
- To prepare omelette, combine egg and tofu cubes in a bowl and make 5-6 omelette in a non-stick pan.
- To serve, mix sauce with ground peanuts. Arrange lettuce, cucumber, omelette and bean sprouts in an individual serving plate. Sprinkle chopped spring onion, celery and shallot flakes. Pour peanut sauce on top generously.