Lontong Tahu Campur or abbreviated Lontong Campur is a traditional Indonesian rice cake dish, especially in Java. In the past, this dish was often sold by street vendors who carried their goods using wooden boxes that were carried on their shoulders or baskets that were carried on their backs.
Nowadays, these street vendors prefer to use wheelbarrows to transport the goods and tools needed to prepare Lontong Campur.
Lontong (rice cake, wrapped in banana leaf) is prepared at home as it requires a long cooking or steaming process. Usually overnight. Tofu can also be fried at home, or they can be fried when the street vendor is already out, just at the moment a customer orders this dish.
The thin peanut sauce is always freshly prepared at the moment a customer orders this dish. The customer can decide for himself how many chillies to add to the dish for spiciness. The accompanying vegetables, i.e. white cabbage, are cut into thin strips and served raw.
Ingredients for Lontong:
2 cups of jasmine rice (500-520 grams) - just long grain rice such as Jasmine rice works best when making Lontong
500-750 grams of banana leaves
toothpicks
Ingredients for Lontong Campur:
lontong (rice cake)
4-6 blocks of white tofu
raw peanuts (with or without skin)
cooking oil (for deep-frying)
tamarind pulp
garlic (1/2 clove or small piece of garlic for 1 portion)
fresh hot chillies (for the spiciness)
salt (1/3-1/2 teaspoon of salt for 1 portion)
palm sugar (25-35 grams of palm sugar for 1 portion)
fried shallot
celery leaves
sweet soy sauce
