Sayur Tumis Tauge | Stir-fry Bean Sprouts

This sayur tumis tauge or stir-fry bean sprouts is a quick stir-fry dish that mainly consists of bean sprouts. You should not keep this quick and crispy dish in the refrigerator for a day, but rather eat it straight away, because bean sprouts ferment quickly and that changes the flavor.

This sayur tumis tauge is ready in 20 minutes and is enough for 3 people.

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Sayur Tumis Tauge #98 translated from Beb Vuyk’s Groot Indonesisch Kookboek, page 110.

Ingredients

• 400 grams of bean sprouts

Spices

• 3 tablespoons of chopped onions
• 1 chopped clove of garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon sambal terasi (fermented shrimp paste)
• 1 teaspoon galangal
• 1 teaspoon ginger powder
• 1 stock cube dissolved in 3 dl water
• 2 tablespoons chopped celery
• 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 2 tablespoons of oil

1. Place the bean sprouts in a sieve and rinse off as many of the green skins as possible under the running tap.
2. Let them drain.
3. Grind onions, garlic, sambal, galangal and ginger powder together into a paste and fry in the oil until the onions are yellow.
4. Add the bean sprouts a handful at a time and sauté for 1 minute.
5. Then add the stock cube dissolved in warm water and let everything come to the boil.
6. Then immediately turn off the heat and stir in the celery, lemon juice and soy sauce.

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I enjoy cooking with a stock cube! It works perfectly for this stir-fry bean sprouts recipe. I use sweet soy sauce from ABC and have no sambal trassi left, so add a piece of trassi to my regular sambal. My bean sprouts do not have green skins, but I do rinse the bean sprouts under the tap, of course.

I grind all the herbs and spices together in the cobek to make a bumbu (spice paste). Now I’m going to stir-fry the bumbu and add the bean sprouts one handful at a time.

Once the bean sprouts are in the pan, add the stock cube quickly and let it come to the boil and then immediately turn off the gas, otherwise your bean sprouts will turn into snot.

We eat these sayur tumis bean sprouts with shrimp balls! Yum.