As you know, rice becomes prime food for Indonesian. So, as long as you see, rice fields every where.
Like other plants, rice plants also have their pest, for example is snail. Snails eat stalk and leaves of rice plants, so the plants will die soon.
But, in other point of view, these rice field snails can be processed as delicious cuisine. Before cooked, break the shell, throw body waste. After that, snails submerged into water along one night.
The next day, prepare condiments that contain spices: chili, turmeric, shallots, garlic, and ginger. Wash snails, and cook it with the condiment.

Yore, there are a lot of Sultanate/Kingdom in Indonesia. Every Sultanate has its unique cuisine that only served for Sultan and his family. For example, in Banten Sultanate there is cuisine called as Rabeg. Right now, Banten is one of province of Indonesia.

Main ingredients of rabeg are goat meat and its innards. The taste is hot but also sweet, full of spices.

Main spices are ginger and pepper, with little of red chili. One portion of rabeg menu usually contains of rabeg, vegetables salad, Gnetum gnemon fruit chips, and uduk cooked rice (cooked rice that cooked with coconut milk).

Used to be, rabeg only became Sultan and his family meal, but right now you can find it in foodstall around Banten. Rabeg become special cuisine from Banten, Indonesia.

Maluku or Moluccas, one of islands group in Indonesia have food cuisine that have unspoken delicious. Because I bet you that you’ll not be able to descript the foods deliciousness in words.

When you slurps the salty and crisp gravy, little bit hot, mix with nutmeg sour, words evaporate, leave tongue which taste delicious sensation.

Banda Islands is one of cluster of Moluccas Island that becomes famous because of the sea garden, and also the cuisine. So, after we have snorkeling activities, you can eat just delicious cuisine.

The famous cuisine is Fish Soup. Nutmeg gravy makes soup become really delicious. There is little bit sour taste mix with hot taste. The hot taste different with hot taste from chili, because the nutmegs hot taste really tender and the warm that crawl until stomach. That taste sensation is from wrapping meats that wrap nutmegs.

So, how about the recipe? Don’t hurry, I will post the recipe soon.

Continue to: Nutmeg Fish Soup Recipe (Indonesian Food Recipes)

Nutmeg fish soup recipe, an Indonesian food recipe is really easy to make. The main difficulty is nutmeg that usually hard to find at another region outside Moluccas. But, you can substitute is with almond.

First step is choosing fresh fish. The exciting fish is grouper fish or red fish, that has tender meat and can absorb spices. After cleaned, prepare the spices, those are shallots, galingale, red chili, and terasi (condiment made from pounded and fermented shrimp or small fish). Pestle the spices and condiment until refined.

Next step is boil the water, after boiled, put in the pestle spices. After that, put in the fish along with thin meat sliced that wrap the nutmeg. Add little bit salt and pounded lemongrass or citronella for the taste and fresh aroma. Pick up after fish and nutmeg cooked.

For cuisine variation (side dish) papaya leaves can be served after the bitter taste vanishes. The method, papaya leaves boil with clay water. After boiled clean it and sliced thin. Prepare spices; garlic, shallot, chili, and terasi (condiment made from pounded and fermented shrimp or small fish), and mill until refined.

Papaya leaves and spices sauté on small fire, add salt, milled canari, and half glass of water. Fry until cooked, and served with the fish soup.

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.

Indonesian is one of people in the world who like durian. This fruit processed in to many menu, both food and drinking. One kind of menu is durian ice; it is not like an ice cream, just cold durian meat.

Durian is paradox fruit, why? Because some people said that this fruit does not delicious, but some other people said its very delicious. It’s all because the smell. The smell is very strong, some people nose said the smell is very fragnant, some people said it smell very bad.

If you do not like durian yoou better try durian ice, why? Because, based on experienced, people (in Indonesia) who do not like eat durian, like drink durian as drinking (usually, durian meat blended with ice in blender).

If you come to Indonesia, why not trying to visit Purbalingga, Central Java Province. Purbalingga is one of central production of durian. In that city, you’ll find food stall that serve durian ice.

How to make durian ice? The fruit meat peeled from the seed, and placed in cold storage. When it served, fruit meat pour with liquid red sugar (palm sugar), and fresh coconut milk, and then added with chopped ice.

Martabak is thick folded crepe filled with spices and pieces of meat. This food cuisine originally from India, but adopts in Indonesia cuisine, and become popular snack food in Indonesia.

In Palembang, you can find Martabak HAR foodstall. Not others, in this food stall, martabak not contains vegetables and meat, it only contains 2 circle-shaped egg, or known as paper prata in Little India junction in Singpore. martabak HAR serves with curry gravy and chopped cow meat and potatoes. Beside of that, there is soybean sauce, and copped green chili as hot sauce.

Many street food stall serve chicken soup in Indonesia. So they have to make uniqueness in their menus. One of succeed unique characteristic is use empal as complement or side dish, like this food stall in Veteran Street, Muntilan, Magelang City, Central Java, Indonesia.

Empal is spiced and fried chunks of beef. Commonly, empal spices are shallots, garlic, and red sugar/palm sugar. Before served, empal has to cook the day before it’s served.

This chunk meat usually boiled at 10.00 pm. After 1-2 hours, part of gravy taken in order to make soup. Meanwhile, meat cooked continuous with spices until 17.00 am. The next, with small fire, empal/chunk meats warmed until ready to fry next day. In order to make chunk meat more tasty, it boiled with charcoal as fuel of fireplace.

Dye noodle is foodstall cuisine from Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Exactly, you also can find this food in Jambi, or Lampung, but in Palembang, dye noodle become characteristic and popular food of this city.

This food use shrimp for main condiment. Shrimp brains use to make the gravy. The egg noodle that use is like spaghetti, big size and straight.

Before you try recipe below, remind that you must have special pan to cook the gravy. Use double pan to cook, one big pan fulfill with water, smaller pan fulfill with the gravy. Put smaller pan in big pan. Smaller pan become float parts So you have to cook the gravy inside boiled water. Why? Because if the gravy ‘touch’ the fire directly, gravy become too hot, and make it thicker.

Ingredients:
Shrimps, egg noodle, bean sprouts, boiled egg, shallots, garlic

Gravy Ingredients:
Shrimp stock, sugar, salt, pepper, wheat flour, egg, onion leaves

How to make it:
Mill shallots, garlic, pepper, salt until refined. Heat the frying oil, sautéing refined spices until fragrant. Put in chopped shrimp, add water, and let it boiled. After that, put in wheat flour which have been fused with water. Let it boiled, add sugar, and onion leaves.

Fries Snacks are popular streed food among people in Indonesia. Usually, in the afternoon, there is minimal one seller in one street sell these fries snacks. Fries snacks make from flour as main material, and vegetables, tuber, fermented soy bean cake (tempe), tofu.

Fries is coziest eaten with fresh cayenne or chili sauce. But often fries can not feel Crunchy and Crispy, very quickly thus wilting. Though meagerly trick fries can come up more captivating. The appearance will beautiful, likely Crunchy and Crispy. If vexed, tried corrects reading formerly info following!

Mixture Material: Main material to fry is flour dough. Flour used in the form of whole-wheat, starch flour, rice powder and corn flour. As component of mixture vegetables is used. Almost all of vegetables can be fried. For example, if you gonna make fries snacks called bakwan (corn fritter) you can use cabbage, carrot, chickpea, radish, onion leaf, leek, corn seed, carrot, etc. Also multifarious parsnip like potato, vines, cassava, and taro. Except of these material also can be used: prawn, chicken flesh, squid, small shrimp, small fish, and others.
In phases: A technique to mix material with egg dough partakes standing in yielding fries which crunchy and crispy. Don't mix the materials at the same time. Because vegetable will have water inside if it submerged in dough in long time. Enters material step by step, for once fries so that vegetable will feel crispy when fried and juiceless flour dough. Don't forget, pokes dough at every times material added and fries that flat-compounded flour and flavor.

Oil: To get golden yellow result, use much of oil and fire in medium level. Ascertains material submerge in the oil. If oil is too hot, make small the fire. If we want the result more hard and crunchy, after halfdone, lifts frying. Heats oil to return finite of correctness temperature, fries returns to frying so drought.

Additional Sauce: Fries must be presented and dined whilst warmness that the taste is delicious and crispy. In consequence fry it when it will be dined. Can be presented with bean sauce, chilli sauce, Bangkok sauce or sweet acid sauce according to appetite.

This cuisine divided into two menus, Cooked Rice Rice and Green Chili Soup. Red rice is variant of rice which grows in Indonesia and believing content more vitamins and minerals then white rice. You can find these menus in Food Stall in Wonosari, city of Gunang Kidul regency area of Yogyakarta. The food stall is near Jirak bridge, so the menu often called as Jirak Red Rice.

In that food stall, cooked red rice serve with green chili soup. The soup have coconut milk gravy in green coloring. This soup contains tempe (fermented soybean cake), sliced green chili, shallots, garlic, and fried shallots. You can add side dishes such as empal (Javanese spiced and fried chunks of beef), and others cow meat. How about the taste? It’s really hot! :).

Edited for this blog purposed and translated by Reog, original article by Odilia Winneke from Detik.

As you knew, rice is main menu in Indonesia Cuisine, I have described Gandul Rice, this artcle will describe Galung Cooked Rice menu from Pematang Siantar, Medan, North Sumatra Province.

To eat this menu, you do not have to go to Medan. If you still in Jakarta, you’ll find this menu in Galung Restaurant, Taman Pluit Kencana Street, No.2 Pluit, Jakarta Utara.
Basically, galung cooked rice is same as others rice cuisine which wrapped with side dishes in Indonesia, but the different is side dishes substance that used. On galung cooked rice, the topping is white vermicelli, fried white tiny sea fish, cabbage curry (contain sliced potato and cabbages), bean sprouts chili sauce, and a cup of green chili sauce.
For another side dishes, you can order cow rendang (meat simmered in spices and coconut milk), fried rayfish. This menu served on steamed cassava leaves. Yummy!!So tasty :). Feel the curry aroma across you nose…

Another menu which you can pick is Chicken noodle curry. The gravy is brown to red. There are yellow noodles, vermicelli, perkedel (croquette of spicy ground meat and boiled potatoes or other starch), shred fried chicken, and also flour chips, fried shallots, and celery.

Hmm…really completed side dishes menus right? :).


Edited for this blog purposed and translated by Reog, original article by Devita Sari from Detik.

I do not know whether cow tail use as kind of food substance in your country, but in Indonesia, it use for menu called tail soup, and become one of Indonesian Food. There are a lot of food stall served this menu, just go outside, look at street and read food stall banner: Sop Buntut Sapi.

Warung Dapur Buntut is restaurant which specialized served variant of this cow tail soup menu and others cow meat. One of cow tail menu is Cow Tail Caramel Soup. Another menu is BBQ roasted cow tail. The meat is so tender, if you order Caramel Soup, you’ll taste that caramel and black pepper made the taste is unique.

You can find this restaurant at 50th D KH Abdullah Syafei Street, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Jl KH Abdullah Syafei No 5O D
Jakarta

Original article by Angelina Maria Donna, edited and translated by Reog, source KOMPAS.

Sate is Indonesian Food with huge devotee. Sate as I described in my previous post about this kind food, is meat stab with skewer then roasted. Too many region in Indonesia (as largest island country), too many variation of the food, even one kind of menu, can be cooked as different appereance, taste, etc.

Like sate, in Yogyakarta there is famous food stall which sale sate. Name of that stall is Warung Sate Karang. Name of Karang came from Karang Square in Kota Gede, Yogyakarta, where stall held.What the special of this sate? Sate Karang served with tempe (fermented soybean cake) gravy and eat with lontong (food consisting of rice steamed in a banana leaf). The taste of meat is dominated with sweet taste as others Javanese Food. Because, before skewer, the cow meats flavored with red sugar (sugar made from coconut sap).

Others spices are salt, red onion, coriander, and lime leaves to disappear putrid taste or odor of meats. After roasted, sate wrapped with peanut condiment (pounded peanut mixed with water and others spices, usually chili, garlic, and so on).

The tempe (tempeh) gravy seems like opor gravy (meat or chicken dish cooked with coconut cream and various spices). Basic raw of gravy are tempeh and cow broth, and add spices like dried shrimps, salt, Javanese sugar, red chili, red onion, and petai beans.

Original article by Mawar Kusuma, edited and translated in English by Reog, source KOMPAS

As many unique cuisine, sate is original food from Indonesia. Sate is small pieces of meat roasted on skewer. This Indonesia food cuisine is so spicy and full of condiment (in some cooking method). There are a lot of sate recipes that you’ll find. One of the unique menus of sate is bone sate from Banjarmasin. Banjarmasin is capital city of South Kalimantan (Borneo Island) province.

Wait a second, I’ve told you that sate made from small pieces of meat, but why that title is bone sate? No, I’m right, that’s way I told you that this is unique Indonesian cuisine. Not other sate menu, this Banjarmasin sate made from young chicken backbone, that’s the reason.Young chicken backbone? yup, from the image above, there is no bone appear, but try to eat it ;). There is backbone wrapped with meat. This food cuisine usually uses one month chicken. Other uniqueness of this menu is the hot spices. Like no other which use peanut hot spices, this menu use hot sauces, and there are taste mixed, because you can taste the sweet, the sour, and of course, hot!

Where I can it? If you visit Jakarta, you’ll find this menu at food stall on Boulevard Raya Blok TN street, number 9, Kelapa Gading Permai. So… find the exotic trip to Indonesia, and don’t forget Indonesia spices food, See ya!!!

Write based story by Angelina Maria Donna from KOMPAS

Malang, the apple city. Malang is city in East Java province. This city famous with its apple plantations. Various cuisine based on apple available. But I’m not going to tell you about apple cuisine now (not yet). I’ll tell you about chicken foot food. Chicken foot? Yes, you are right. Feel disgusted? No, don’t, just go to Malang and taste it, I bet you’ll love it! :), because you’ll find in other Indonesian food.

Wow, still distingue? If you can not eat the foot, there are heads and wings served. So do not worry, you can eat the wings or the heads. The taste is same, because the spices and the cooking method is same.This chicken foot food stall open at 09.00 pm. As many Indonesian cuisine, rice is the prime material, this food stall serve rice combine with foot, wings, or chicken head. This food stall commonly called as Glintung Chicken Foot Rice. But, you can order only the foot, wings, or head.

This food menu is variance of opor cooking method. Opor is meat or chicken dish cooked with coconut cream and various spices. But this menu redder, with thin coconut milk gravy.

Youl’ll find this food stall in front of Alfa Supermarket, Letjen S.Parman Street, Malang, and East Java, Indonesia.

Write based story by Hans from KOMPAS

There are various meat balls variation. Commonly, meat ball only combined with egg or cow tendon in Indonesian food Cuisine. But, right now cheese meat ball already made. The newest combination is tomato meat ball in one of meat ball food stall in Bandung city.

Physically, this tomato meat ball is meat ball that wrapped with tomato. Want to know how to make it? :). Just slice tomato bottom, throw the volume (seed, etc), after that put in meat ball in the tomato and cook.Use intermediate tomato, don’t use mature, don’t use young tomato. Perfect tomato make boiled tomato meat ball still perfect. Tomato texture do not got damaged. Use approximately 4 cm diameter.

Don’t forget the gravy, use garlic, pepper, and salt. Tomato skin make meat ball has sour-sweet taste. Add in the gravy, and you’ll get fantastic taste experience ;). Your tongue will dance. But if you familiar with spices cuisine or condiment cuisine, it will just another unique experience.

If you go to Indonesia, The Original Batik Country, try to visit Bandung (named as Paris Van Java), and do not forget to taste this meat ball. Go to the food stall, and find meat ball Indonesian cuisine experience.

Write based story by Lis Dhaniati from KOMPAS

Blended? no, it is not like what you think. The rice was not blending with other substances, blended rice means cooked rice which full of side dishes. Just look at the image.

The side dishes is original cuisine from Bali. In the image we see that there are cooked rice, Be Siap Tutu (chicken), Be Sambal Matah (raw chili condiment), Be Siap Pelalah and Jukut Kalas (kind of vegetables), and chicken satay, and cow satay.With full of side dishes, so that menu called as Nasi Campur or Blended Rice. Or maybe my translated was wrong? :).

And…wait there is unique cuisine you have to know, fruit salad with fish gravy. Yup, the fruits are mango and kedondong, the salad spices blended with fish gravy…. Usually the spices full of chili, so it very hot.

Original writer Angelina Maria Donna, adapted and translated by reog. Source KOMPAS.

There are many variant of how cooking rice in Indonesia. One of that is making as Lontong. Lontong is food consisting of rice steamed in a banana leaf. The shape is like stick, oval.

As main item, lontong served with many variant of side dish, but usually it served with gravy side dish, like kikil soup. What is kikil? Kikil is part of foot of animal (usually cow, goat, or buffalo). The kikil meat is rubbery (to cook kikil meat until tender, usually it took 3 hours), but I bet the taste is so delicious. I bet you! :).For example, you can meet Lontong Kikil menus in Yu Mi food stall in Jl Raya Serpong ,Ruko SR I no 41, Melati Mas, Jakarta.

Another usual variations of lontong is vegetables lontong menu. Lontong only accompanied with gravy vegetables, But from that, you can pick another side dish that served by foodstaller, like chicken, egg, etc.

Original writer Angelina Maria Donna, adapted and translated by reog. Source KOMPAS.

There are a lot of food stall in Indonesia, and many cuisines there. You can get foreign cuisine in food stalls. One of food stall area is Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. Pick cuisines you like, and feel the delicious atmosphere. Beside original cuisine in Indonesia, you’ll get foreign cuisine too. Of course, the foreign cuisine had modified.

If you like sushi, there is food stall which sell it. The b=name of the food stall is SUMO. You’ll get a lot of sushi menu variance. One of them is crispy salmon sushi, a sushi menu with fried flour salmon.

Beside sushi, this food stall served tempura too. So if you’ll go to Jakarta, don’t forget to visit Kelapa gading boulevard, go and eat with delicious atmosphere. C ya in Jakarta, the truly city of Asia.

Original writer Angelina Maria Donna, adapted and translated by reog. Source KOMPAS.