Tauge goreng

Tauge goreng (Indonesian for "fried bean sprouts") is an Indonesian savoury vegetarian dish made of stir-fried tauge (bean sprouts) with slices of tofu, ketupat or lontong rice cake and yellow noodles, served in a spicy oncom-based sauce.

The oncom-based sauce is made by stir-frying ground oncom in small amount 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.

[1] Oncom is bright orange-colored fermented crushed beans similar to tempeh, but made from different fungi.

[1] The most popular tauge goreng in Indonesia is the West Javan version, which uses oncom based sauce as mentioned above.

However, this Malaysian version is a lot simpler, which only consists of beansprouts stir fried with chopped shallot, garlic and chili in soy sauce.

Street food tauge goreng vendor cart in Jakarta