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How To Make PrawnTofu Laksa From Scratch |Asian Cooking

How To Make Prawn Tofu Laksa From Scratch |Asian Cooking

A prawn, tofu laksa made using fresh ingredients and homemade laksa paste.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Soup
Cuisine: Malay
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Laksa paste
  • 8 to 10 pieces Galangal/Ginger
  • 2 Lemongrass
  • 2 Dried chilli medium spiced
  • 1½ tbsp Belacan
  • 3 tbsp Dried shrimp small
  • 6 to 8 Shallots
  • 8 Garlic
  • 1 Bird's eye chilli
Soup base
  • 5 cups Water
  • 1 tsp Dried shrimp
  • Laksa paste
  • Deveined prawns
  • 1 block Firm tofu
  • Fish sauce
  • Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • 65 ml Coconut milk
Other ingredients/condiments
  • ½ cup Beansprout
  • 2 Calamansi
  • 420 to 600 gm Laksa noodles

Method
 

Laksa paste
  1. Add the ingredients mentioned under the laksa paste in a blender.
  2. Grind with enough water and make into a thick smooth paste.
  3. Add oil in a pan.
  4. Add the ground paste and saute until it cooked well and there is no raw smell.
  5. Keep the paste aside.
Soup base
  1. Add 2 cups of water in a pan.
  2. Add dried shrimp.
  3. Add fried paste.
  4. Now,add turmeric powder.
  5. Bring the soup into boil.
  6. Add cleaned, deveined prawns.
  7. It is time to add tofu.
  8. Add laksa leaves.
  9. Next add sugar.
  10. Add fish sauce.
  11. Add coconut milk or cream.
Serving
  1. Place boiled /cooked laksa noodles or any rice noodles in a serving bowl.
  2. Pour soup and cover the noodles.
  3. Add beansprout and serve.