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.

Yardlong beans saute

Yardlong beans it means 'kacang panjang' (=bahasa Indonesia).

Yardlong beans as unique vegetable , the taste its sweet and crunchy. You can see yardlong beans in many modern and traditional market.

Yardlong bean is a plant that is used as a vegetable or fresh vegetables. It grows by climbing or twining. Part of which is used as a vegetable or fresh fruit that is still young and fibers are still soft, yardlong beans is easily found in hot regions in Asia.  

Rawon/ Beef Black Nuts Soup

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Rawon means black beef soup.  The black colour originated from keluak or black nuts.   

I find description rawon from wikipedia : 

'Rawon  is a strong rich tasting traditional Indonesian beef black soup. Originally from Surabaya in Indonesia Privince of East Java. It uses black nuts/keluak (Pangeum edule, fruits of kepayang/keluak tree) as the main spice which gives the strong nutty flavor and dark color to the soup'.

Rich taste and fresh makes rawon spread to the other city of Indonesia and keluak as a star from this soup.

Semprong

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Wikipedia says:
'In Indonesian the term semprong means "tube" or "roll", while sepit derived from jepit which means "clip". Both semprong and sepit are known as almost identical wafers, with the different only in its shape; the roll-shaped is called semprong, while the triangular-folded shape is called sepit. Both variants are called as sapit or sepit in Malaysia, regardless of its shape. Traditional kue semprong are hollow, the new variants however, might add fillings, such as Chocolate or cheese.

Semprong is one of many my favourite snacks, I feel smell of  sesame and coconut milk as a mixture with unique taste.  Many snacks store has a 2 or more varian of semprong and this is my favourite one.

Saute bean sprouts with chilli

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Fresh.....
That I feel it when the food will deserve on our table.  It's a very simple saute vetable that I really like to cook.   Main ingredient is a bean sprouts, in Indonesia we usually call 'tauge'.

'Sprouts is a vegetable that is a young plant that has just germinated and protected from light. The word itself is the uptake sprouts from the Hokkien dialect, Mandarin-his term is douya (豆芽) literally sprout beans, generally derived from green beans and is often served in the diet of East Asia. Fresh sprouts are very rich in vitamin E, and a menu which is highly recommended for consumption. By eating the sprouts, the body will be treated and prevented from deficiency of vitamin E'  (source : wikipedia.com)

Peria

Pahittt.....it's meaning bitter...

That's was always exist in my mind if I see peria.  Peria or Pare  is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Carribean for its edible fruit, which is extremely bitter. Its many varieties differ substantially in the shape and bitterness of the fruit (source : wikipedia.com).