Ingredients:
- canned tomatoes
- ginger
- ketjap manis or ketjap boemboe
- brown sugar or syrup
- vinegar
- paprika powder
- flour
- salt
The trick with this soup is to get a solid base together, and after that just chuck stuff in to make it more entertaining to eat. Start by opening the canned tomatoes into a pan, and mixing them with a blender, double the volume by adding water. Bring the tomtatoes to a slow simmer. Then add flavour; ketjap, sugar, vinegar, salt, paprika, you can add quite a lot. Also add some flour to thicken the soup, mix well. When you’ve added everything take some time to test the flavour. Add salt/sugar/vinegar/pepper if needed, the soup needs quite a lot of salt/sweet/sour. Leave the mixture for 1-2 hours, to let the flavours develop. Start adding ingredients about 30 minutes before serving. Good choices are:
- canned bamboo strips (needs 60 minutes to lose the horrible canned flavour)
- small meatballs
- omlet strips
- sliced mushrooms
- sliced paprika
- taugé (add last)