Veggies and seafood curry with fermented soy bean (Sayur tauco)

Today, I was thinking what to cook. So I went to the fridge and check what is available. Apparently I have some scallops, lima beans in the freezer, some broccoli and quails eggs in the fridge. And a little bit of fermented soy bean (salted soy bean) was also showed up in the bottle.

So I decided to do the sayur tauco. Well honestly I don't understand why we called the dish sayur tauco, because it is not only the vegetables (sayur) in the dish but also some shrimps or even chicken, too. My mum always make the dish for big family dine gathering, it's good to go with other meaty dishes like rendang or fried chicken and sometimes on any lazy weekend this will be good with lontong (rice cakes). This lontong sayur is a famous breakfast dish in my hometown. Originally the vegetables in this dish are green egg plants, peteh (stinky beans), green beans, green chilles and string beans. In addition you can also add fried tofu. In this recipe I only use what is available in my freezer :)

A friend of mine, a South African whose grandparent was Turkish and Javanese  liked this dish a lot. I made this last time we had students gathering in my university.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1.5 cups or scallops or shrimp (clean and peeled) or chicken cubes

12 pcs of quails eggs (boiled and peeled)

1 cup mushroom (any kind)

5 thai chilles; slices

1/2 onion; chopped

5 cloves garlic; slices

2 cm ginger; crushed

2 cm galangal; slices

2 keffir lime leaves

2 bay leaves

5 cm lemon grass; crushed

1.5-2 cups of water

1/2 can coconut milk

5 tbs vegetable oil

2 tbs tauco (fermented soy bean)

1 cube of chicken stock (optional)

Direction:

1. Wash and cut the broccoli and mushroom, set aside

2. Heat the vegetable oil and then put the onion, cook it till transparent then add the garlic, ginger, chillies, lemon grass, galangal and the leaves. Stir till fragrant.

3. Add the broccoli, lima beans and mushroom, then put the fermented soy bean in stir for 3-5 minutes, then add the scallops or shrimps.

4. Add the water and coconut milk then the quails eggs, continue till the whole ingredients boiled, reduced the heat and continue cooking for another 5-7 minutes.

5. Served with rice or lontong.