SIOMAY BANDUNG

Siomay Bandung is an Indonesian steamed fish dumplings served with peanut sauce.It's ubiquitous in the city.You can find it from restaurants to street vendors.
Here is the recipe! (Enough for 4 servings)

Ingredients:
26 oz fish paste (I usually buy fish paste in a plastic container weigh 13 oz each)
8 tbs tapioca starch
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
1 pack medium firm tofu
3 medium size white potatoes
1 head of medium size cabbage
2 medium size bitter melons
2 eggs - hard boil, peel the skin and cut in half - set aside
key limes
1 pack of peanut sauce(sambel pecel-can be found at Asian grocery stores)
ABC Sweet soy sauce
Ketchup (optional)
Sriracha Hot Sauce (optional - if you love spicy, this is a MUST)

How to cook:

* Clean the cabbage, thin the stem on the leaves and boil it for a few seconds. Remove form heat and drain. Roll each of the leaf. - set aside.
* Cut each bitter melon into 4 parts and remove the seeds with a spoon. Soak in hot salt water for 5 minutes or so then rinse them.
* Cut tofu into 6 thin slices, and cut each slice in 2, then cut diagonally to make triangles.
* Rinse and peel potatoes, cut into 4 parts.
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* Mix fish paste with pepper,salt,sugar,and tapioca starch in a large bowl.
* Stuff 2 tbs fish paste into the bitter melon.
* Take a piece of tofu, use the end of the spoon to make a cut on one side of the triangle and stuff with fish paste.
* Steam the bitter melons, tofu, and potatoes until they're fully cooked.
(Note: if you can't stuff all the fish paste into tofu or bitter melons, simply make a few cylinder shapes out of it and steam them!)
* Bring 500 ml water to boil. Add a whole package of peanut sauce and stir until dissolve.Remove from heat.
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Place bitter melons,tofu,potatoes,cabbage,and half of the egg in a plate. Pour peanut sauce on top along with the sweet soy sauce, ketchup and sriracha sauce.Squeeze key lime juice on it.



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