Dendeng, kind of meat cuisine, become one of famous Indonesia Food. Dendeng or this fillet food itself divided into several genre. One of them is called Dendeng Batokok, from Sawahlunto, West Sumatra Province.

Thin sliced meat, wrapper with coconut oil, spread aromatic smell, seduce our eat appetite. Every one has different way to eat this menu. There are people who like eat only this meat, but there are also people who like eat it with kind of vegetables. And people, who like hot taste, can add Indonesia hot sauce/sambal into it. But, one thing that have to add, that is coconut oil.

This meat food made from selected cow meat, usually from cow hips, that do not have fat. Fat in cow meat does not good if we want excellent dendeng quality.

Cleaned cow meat than sliced I thin shape. After sliced, those sliced meats submerged into spices and condiment mixing in 5 hours.

After that, those spices sliced meat smoked. Pallet with bamboo plait, those meats arranged, then bamboo plait hanging around 1 meter on fireplace. Smoke the meats until dry, around 10 hours.

After dried, thin meat again with tools like a hammer, then chopped as you wish. After that, roast the meats, then serve with coconut oil.

I’ve wrote about goat curry, but this time, this Indonesia food appear different from others. This spicy food use bone as main ingredients. Bones? Yes, you are right.

Of course, we eat the meats that wrapping the bones. This goat bones menu, seem like tengkleng (Javanese T Bones menu), but the different is tengkleng use thin santan (squeeze coconut milk), while this menu use thick squeeze coconut milk. And not only T Bones used, but all bones.

And the unique and tasty thing is we also can eat the marrow. Does it stinking? Indeed, but knowledge of washing the bones and young papaya added made this menu has good smell. Before cook, wash bones first. Afterwhile, boil the bones in boiled water, then boil again with thin coconut milk and raw condiment.

Raw condiment contained from several spices like pepper, coriander, nutmeg, chili, cinnamon, and cardamom. And don not forget to add young papaya. After boiled, boil again with thick coconut milk and the goat gravy ready to serve. You can arrive to the food stall which serves this menu if you visit Yogyakarta. The place is Jodog Village, Gilangharjo, Pandak, Bantul.

If you eat Indonesia Food, it usually chili sauce included in the menu. Indeed, most of Indonesian food recipe use chili sauce or called as sambal as menu addition. It is your choice to use it or not. But be careful, it very hot for people who do not usually eat hot sauce. Why?

Because sambal usually made from kind of chili that has high hot characteristic. This chili sauce made from chili that pestle in rough form (whether for some ind of sambal, it pestle until tender). Still want to try to make sambal and eat it with fried chicken maybe? Here the guidelines:

Main ingredients of course chili. Pick fresh chili, none part of it that already putrid or damaged. Smaller chili means the taste hotter, so if you not like hot taste pick the bigger one.

Throw away its stalk, washes, and then dry it. Chop chili in small pieces so it easy to pestle.

Although it is just chili pestle sauce, sambal use spices and condiment, so the taste delicious (although still hot).

Usual condiment is terasi (condiment made from pounded and fermented shrimp or small fish). Burn, roast or steam this condiment before using it. Cooked terasi will give tasty aroma in sambal.

Addition spices are garlic, shallots, and greater galingale. If you like, you can add lime to make fresh taste. Use lime lemon, or another kind of lime which have sour taste. Or maybe you can add with tamarind, or may sour star fruit.

Put all of ingredients on stone mortar, and pestle it until refine. Why use stone mortar? And not blender? If you use stone mortar, the chili juice (sap) will come out because of stones friction, if you use blender, blender only chopped the chili, but does not able to come out chili juice (sap).

Eat it with fried chicken or another menus as soon as possible. Enjoyed!