I’m trying to eat healthier and reduce my consumption of meat, especially red meat. So most of my home-cooked meals now will have little to no meat in it. A couple weeks ago, I visited an Indonesian grocery store nearby and picked up some Indonesian spices. One of the spices was called opor white curry. Supposedly, this curry’s good for chicken dishes. I didn’t have any chicken, but had some firm tofu that I was supposed to use to make mapo tofu (but ran out of spices). So I decided to try creating a tofu opor white curry dish with no meat, but with sauteed onions, thai chili (chopped), and instead of coconut milk, used soy milk (i can barely taste the difference, but soy milk is a lot of cheaper and not as fattening).
The opor spices have a really nice aroma. I believe it’s got some coriandor, cumin, galangal in it, and maybe lemongrass. It’s a quick dish to prepare and tastes pretty good (did i mention that it’s healthy too!).
I think opor white curry is one of those spices that I’ll always have in the kitchen somewhere, since you can probably add it to a lot of different things and it’ll taste so much better. I may try adding it to mapo tofu to see how that tastes.