Simple Recipe - Yong Tow Foo

My husband has been asking me to cook Yong Tow Foo. On the Mothers' Day weekend, we went to Pudu market as we wanted to get stuff for steamboat. We came across a fishmonger that selling fish paste freshly made at the stall, so we bought.

My late mom in law used to buy Wolf Herring Fish and scraped its flesh and made fish paste. You will need salt water and tapioca flour. Her Yong Tow Foo was really good.

For me is easier to just get the fish paste and stuff into vegetables of your choice. You can have brinjal, bittergourd, red chillies, long bean, beancurd sheet, towpok or okra/lady's finger.  Then cook sauce to put on top of the stuff vegetables.

After fried before sauce

Ingredients
500 gm fish paste
Vegetables of your choice

Method
Put 1/4 teaspoon salt into 1/4 small bowl water, stir it
Divide the paste
Add into the fish paste 1 teaspoon tapioca flour and salt water bit by bit onto the paste
Hit the paste onto big bowl to make it bouncy.
Stuff paste into vegetables
Heat up work, fry in cooking oil, set aside

Sauce
Pound:
1 tblsp taucheong (bean paste)
1 big onion
1 whole garlic

Heat up wok, put some oil, fry till aromatic the pounded ingredients.
Add some sugar and water
Put the sauce on top of the pre-fried vegetables

I am not an expert in cooking nor a good writer, just simple instruction that hope you can understand 😅. Happy cooking!