Tauge goreng is a
vegetarian dish, the main ingredient of which is the
tauge or mung bean sprouts. Usually the bean sprouts are cooked in front of the customer using a small and simple stove. The bean sprouts are not stir fried in cooking oil, but blanched in small amounts of boiling water instead. Then slices of
tofu, yellow noodles, and slices of
ketupat or
lontong rice cake are added, stir fried, mixed and heated together, after which a savoury and spicy
oncom-based sauce is poured upon the cooked ingredients. This
oncom-based sauce is made by stir-frying ground
oncom in small amounts of
vegetable oil with
spices, including ground
galangal,
salam leaf (Indonesian bayleaf), slices of
tomato,
scallion,
garlic chives,
tauco (fermented soybean paste),
kecap manis (sweet soy sauce),
key lime juice, and salt.
Oncom consists of bright orange-colored fermented crushed beans similar to
tempeh, but made from different fungi. It is an especially popular ingredient in
Sundanese cuisine. The
oncom-based sauce is also used in the Bogor version of
laksa, giving it a quite similar taste, the
oncom-based sauce giving an earthy nutty flavour to the dish. ==Variants==