Eggplant-smoked tuna and Tofu in Coconut Milk( Lodeh Terong, Tongkol dan Tahu )

Eggplant-smoked tuna and tofu in coconut milk

This is one of traditional menus from my grandmother. She used to cook it at the clay crock on wood stove. Sometimes, I really miss the traditional atmosphere when anything run with patience and off course so naturally. This  menu just bring my mind to the atmosphere of my childhood, over past 30 years a go. I don't know, whether I will get it this menu or not for my future. Today I am very lucky, because my mother asked me to help her making this menu again. Since I don't want to loose the recepe, I decide to put it down and record it with my camera step by step how to make it.

Here we prefer using small green eggplant because its taste is little bit bitter but getting fused in our tongue. Well, I think it depend on the taste, if you dislike it, you can use another various of eggplant ( purple eggplant or big green eggplant ). In my hometown, the eggplant is very cheap, it's about $50 sen per one kg. Let's start cooking now...

Ingredients:
- Small green eggplant cut into 2
-Smoked tuna cut into 2
-Fried Tofu 6 Pcs, it can be found in Indonesian traditional market
-Small- red- chilly 10 pcs
-Big-red-chilly 1 pcs
-Garlic 4 Cloves
-Red Onion 5 cloves
-Tomato 1 Pcs
-Indonesian bay leaves 2 pcs
-4cm of galangal, crack it with pestle
-salt
-sugar
-1 bowl of diluted coconut milk
-1 bowl of condensed coconut milk
-frying oil 2 tablespoon

Direction :

As for information,you can replace it with instant coconut milk  if you want. But here, I intentionally introduce you how to cook it in traditional way as my grandmother and my mother used to teach me  before and mostly old Javanese prefer to cook it in traditional way rather than using machine . Because from traditional touch will create different taste than using machine , even though using instant ingredient and using machine will  save you more time

Chilly, Garlic, Red Onion, Galangal, Tomato and Bay leaves 

1. Grated coconut, then give water and squeeze it with the sieve, then divide into two parts, diluted coconut milk and condensed coconut milk.
2. Heat  the oil , put chilli,garlic,red union , tomato ,then saute the spices for 3 minutes  
3. Crush spices except galangal and bay leave untill smooth using grinder or blender.
4. Fried tuna for + / - 3 minutes and lift
5. Boil diluted coconut milk, put the crushed spices, add the galangal ( press with hammer ) and bay leaves
6. Add eggplant, tuna and tofu, then condensed coconut milk until boiled. then lift..



Fresh coconut and the traditional wood grater

Diluted coconut milk and condensed coconut milk

Grated coconut

Small green eggplant and smoked tuna

Fried Tofu available in traditional market