The Indonesian Food Festival will feature a Javanese culinary cooking class series that begins this Sunday, June 3, and continues July 15 and Aug. 5 at the West Linn Adult Community Center. The classes will meet from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and class participants share a meal of what they create.
The focus of the first class is "Gourmet Indonesian Tempeh" dishes. Tempeh is a food Surja says we know nothing about.
“You don’t know tempeh,” he said. “Tempeh in Indonesia, where it was invented, is considered a delicious and desirable protein used in many different recipes that are considered gourmet. It is not considered as a meat substitute or filler at all. … Tempeh is proven to be an excellent substitute for meat, easier for the body to digest, leaner source of protein and have a lower carbon footprint compared to other protein.”
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