De'bLogS of Jenny Irna..

Most people in Indonesia take tempe as a main course in every meal. Tempe is one of original foods from Indonesia. Although tempe is a tradisional food, everybody from all stages like eating tempe. Usually tempe is eaten as an additional food with meats, fishes, and vegetables. Tempe is being important because it has many proteins that benefit to our body. Actually making tempe is very easy, because it just need simple ingredients and easy to cooking. The main substance of tempe is the soybean. To make tempe, we must prepare all the ingredients first, such as soybeans, yeasts, and leaves of banana or plastics. Besides the ingredients, we must prepare the equipment too, such as the stove, kitchen set, and a set of bowls. First of all, we must choose good soybeans, and throw away the decayed soybeans. Then, saturate the soybeans with water for one day. The next day, throw away the water and cleanse the soybeans. After that, boil the soybeans for about one hour depending on the amount of soybeans and wait until tomorrow. The next morning, wash off the soybeans with flowing water. After washing the soybeans, remove the peel of the soybeans carefully and boil again the soybeans with water for 45-60 minutes. When they are boiled, do the fermentation by giving enough yeasts and wait for one day. Next, package the soybeans with plastics or banana leaves and hollow that for air circulation. The last process is waiting and drying the soybeans in the sun to do the process of fermentation for about 24 hours or until the fermentation is finished. After that, we can immediately cook tempe appropriate to our taste. From the processes we can see that making tempe is very easy so that we can do it by self in our home.