Sweet Purple Potato's with coconut milk sauce

 Sweet purple potato's , one of many variant from sweet potato's. It has a beautiful colour and good taste .  The texture is soft after you steam it about 30 minutes and has a sweet and savory taste. It great to make something different with this ingredients.  And I would like to make some thing sweet and warm ...so I'll make it this.

Sweet banana's

Who's people doesn't like banana?

Maybe you or only me....hiks....yes...but true, I don't like banana as a fresh.  I only eats banana's when it cooks.

And here is one of many favourite dish with banana's as main ingredients.

I am using banana which saba banana, in Indonesia we call 'pisang kepok'. The texture is soft and have a sweetnest intens with a litle sour taste. Yummm........

Ribs

Now... lets talk about ribs.
Ribs is a favourit part from beef , we can find many restaurant  using ribs as a main menu.  As a sample we can taste 'Coto Makasar' from South Sulawesi , it's a famous food in Indonesia. But now, I will go to east Java to taste ' Iga Penyet' it's meaning Ribs with belacan sauce and vegetable.

Ketupat Sayur / Steam rice cake with vegetable

Steam rice cake (= ketupat/lontong, bahasa)

Yeay.......it's my favourite food on Lebaran .

In my country, 'Lebaran' or Idul Fitri is   a big celebration because muslim as a most population here, We have unique tradition as a Lebaran like a 'mudik' . Mudik is the same with going home, Indonesia have a many island/archipelago country and more a half population imigrate from his/her home town to other city. So ....in Lebaran, they were have tradition to gathering with all family on home town. As usually, they have tradition to make some special food for celebrate. That's why we can find unique food on Lebaran.

And now....we can talk about our family dish.
Our tradition special end of ramadhan is dinner together with all family. And one of special dish are 'Ketupat Sayur' . This is a special for us because the dish only exist on Lebaran.
But now we can find it in many restaurant and stall on streed food.

Here is the recipe, we have 3 part of the dish Chayote soup (as a vegetable), braised chiken with coconut milk  and steam rice cake with condiment crispy onion .

Steam Rice Cake

10 pcs ketupat moulding (from coconut leaves)
400 grams rice, soak for 30 min

How do : Fill rice to coconut moulding until 3/4 and then boiled for 2 hours.  Dried with hang it .

Braised Chiken with Coconut Milk

10 pcs chicken (like wing or breast)
500 ml coconut milk
2 pcs lemmon grass
2 salam leaves
2 cm galangal
800 ml water
1 tbs vegetable oil

Mix and make a puree :
10 grams coriander
5 clove garlic
5 clove shallots
3 turmeric
3 grams fresh turmeric
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 nutmeg
a pinch of salt and sugar

How Do:
1. Sauted the puree until mixture and alittle brown, an fill salam leaves, lemon grass and galangal. Add chiken and mix until chicken pale.
2. Fill water and cook until chicken done.
3. Add coconut milk and mix until boiled.