Selling Indonesian food on the sidewalk

Selling Indonesian food on the sidewalk

Rangin Seller on Sidewalk

There are many sidewalk stalls in Indonesia. They are called “5 foot sidewalk stalls” because they sell on sidewalk (known as Pedagang Kaki lima: or 5 foot) where the width is 5 feet long. So, we don’t need to come in a restaurant or food stall to fill in our stomachs. If our pocket is in crisis, come and try food in the sidewalk. They usually sell on a small tent or pushcart on sidewalk city. They have unique ways to attract people. For example, a meat ball seller strikes the meat ball pan or a Indonesian chicken noodle seller makes sounds by bamboos. Sure, it will not be a boring culinary tourism.

Soto Ayam

	Soto Ayam
	Ingredients : 1.5 liter water 1 tea spoon salt 2 Indian bay leaf 1 Laos 1/2 (500 g) Chicken 3 tea spoon Blueband margarine

Grind these following items:

• 1 tea spoon Black pepper
• 5 pieces Garlic
• 5 Candle Nuts

Prepare the chili sauce (Sambal): 15 pcs red chili - boiled and grinded them.

• 2 tea spoon of Roasted peanut - grinded them.
• 2 tea spoon of Bango Sweet Soy Sauce
• 1 tea spoon of lemon juice

Side Items: 150 g bean sprouts.

• 75 g vermicelli, wash it in the warm water to make it soft.
• 2 chicken eggs, boiled, cut into small pieces
• 2 tea spoon of Roasted peanut
• 75 g Cassava chips
• 2 tea spoon of Fried onion
• 1 green onion leaves cut into small pieces
• 1 Chinese celery cut into small pieces

How to cook :

1. Boil the water with salt, indian bay leaves and galangga. Put the chicken meat, boiled them until it's tender.
2. Lift the chicken out,and then fry it until its color become yellow brown and dry it.
3. Shredded the chicken meat into small slices.
4. Stir the Blue band margarine in the frying pan and fry the spices until it smells delicious. Added the spices to the chicken broth water.
5. Reduce the heat to low and wait until it boils.

How to prepare:

1. Put the shredded chicken into small bowl and add the bean sprouts, vermicelli, and the boiled egg.
2. Pour the hot chicken broth into the bowl. Add the roasted peanuts, cassava chips, fried onion, green onion leaves, and chinese celery.

Lemper Ayam

Lemper
Tasty Indonesian snack of Chicken wrapped in sticky rice.
The rice (Ketan) used is sold as "Sticky" or "Glutonous" rice. Although the name might suggest otherwise it contains no gluten but is very rich in starch. Use 2 cups of water for every cup of rice and boil for about 12 minutes. (make sure it doesn't stick to the sausepan). Then steam for a further 15 to 20 minutes.
Ingredients:

500 gr. Ketan (see above).
200 gr. Chicken breast.
1 large red Onion.
4 cloves Garlic.
1 stalk Lemongrass.
2 Tsp. Trassi.
2 Tsp. Cummin. (Ground)
2 Tsp. Coriander. (Ground)
250 ml. Coconut milk.
2 Tbl. Oil.
Preparation:

Boil the rice as explained above and leave to cool.
Boil the chicken in some water. Set aside. Finely chop Onions, Garlic and Lemongrass. Heat oil in a wok and fry Onion, Garlic and Lemongrass mixture. When browned add chopped chicken and other spices. keep frying for a further 3 minutes then add the coconut milk and reduce so the mixture is almost dry again. Leave to cool. Follow procedure below to make the Ketans.

On a lightly oiled square of tin-foil spread out the cooled down rice in a rectangular shape (12cm * 8cm).






Place a tablespoon of the chicken mixture in the centre of the rice and, using the foil, lift the rice around the mixture so that the end result is croquette shape with the rice covering the filling on all sides.




The lemper can now be individual wrapped in Banana leaves or tin-foil. They can be kept in the fridge for up to 2 days max. or frozen.

To serve the Lemper, reheat in a steamer and when hot serve as a snack with Sambal Ulek and Kecap Manis.

Nasi Uduk

Indonesian Traditional Food

	Nasi Uduk (Jakarta Coconut Rice)
	Ingredients: 2 cups rice 3 cups coconut milk 1 indian bay leaf 3 lemon grass leaves ½ teaspoon salt aluminum foil

Instructions:
Put all the ingredients into a saucepan, and bring to a boil.
Turn off the heat, cover the pan and let the mixture stand for fifteen minutes to allow the rice to absorb the coconut milk.
Place the rice on an aluminum foil square in a Chinese-style steamer.
Steam for twenty minutes to complete the cooking.

Es Kelapa Muda

	Es Kelapa Muda (Young Coconut Iced Drink)
	Ingredients : 2-3 young coconuts in the can 1 litre coconut water ice cubes Cocopandan Marjan Bouduin syrup 500cc water

Method:
Mix coconut flesh, coconut water and syrup.
Serve in glasses and add ice cubes

Sate Ayam Madura

	Sate Ayam Madura (Madura Chicken Satay)

Ingredients:

• 7 Shallots

• 10 Candle nuts

• 8 Garlic cloves

• Bamboo skewers (as needed)

• 7 lbs. (3.5kg) Chicken (cut into 1" cubes)

• 1 cup (250ml) Water

• 1/4 cup (62ml) Oil

• Salt (as needed)

• 2 cups (500ml) Sweet soy sauce

• 2 Red peppers

• 16 Birdseye chili's (optional)

• 2 lbs. (1kg) Roasted Peanuts (ground to a paste)

• 1/4 cup (62ml) Lime juice

Instructions

1. Ground shallot, garlic, candle nut, Holland red pepper, and birdseye chilis to a fine paste.

2. Heat oil in a saucepan then saute the paste until fragrant.

3. Add ground peanuts, 1 cup sweet soy sauce, salt and water.

4. Mix well and slowly bring to a boil.

5. Remove saucepan from heat and add lime juice. Cool to room temperature.

6. Impale chicken pieces on bamboo skewers until 3/4 full.

7. Marinate chicken satay for at least 2 hours with a quarter of the sauce and 1 cup of sweet soy sauce.

8. Sprinkle salt to satay before grilling.

9. Grill satay for 10-15 minutes, turning occasionally.

Chocolate Not So Bad

Craving chocolate? Preliminary research funded mostly by a candy maker suggests a little bit might not be quite as sinful as its reputation.

The study suggests chocolate seems to contain some heart-healthy compounds. But that doesn't mean it's OK to become a chocoholic.

Tests were conducted on only a handful of people who made the sacrifice of munching chocolate for science - science funded mostly by candy maker Mars Inc.

Plus, chocolate is fat- and calorie-laden. So even if the strange-sounding finding that it has some heart-healthy micronutrients pans out, it still won't help the waistline, dietitians note.

However, early findings made public Friday suggest dark chocolate contains some micronutrients called ``flavonoids'' that seem to give red wine a health boost. And they appeared to temporarily stimulate antioxidant and blood clot-inhibiting effects in the chocolate munchers' blood.

``We're not saying eat a chocolate bar every day,'' lead researcher Carl Keen, nutrition chairman at the University of California, Davis, stressed in an interview.

Instead, he says the studies suggest people shouldn't feel so guilty when they indulge.

``I certainly enjoy chocolate. I don't have it every day. I don't feel guilt about it,'' Keen said at a news conference unveiling the studies at an American Association of the Advancement of Science meeting.

Ancient cultures in Mexico drank chocolate for medicinal purposes, such as to gain weight, calm agitation and improve digestion, said Louis Grivetti, a UC-Davis nutritionist who studies chocolate's history. (Chocolate was considered only a drink until about 1830, he said.)

Modern scientists have studied why chocolate causes cravings in some people, and why eating chocolate purportedly makes some people feel happy.

But the new research concerns flavonoids, substances that act as antioxidants, thought to offset some artery-damaging effects of oxygen. Fruits and vegetables are full of flavonoids, but the substances became trendy after scientists found them in red wine and concluded a glass a day could be heart-healthy.

Nutritionists at UC-Davis studied dark chocolate - just chocolate, not the nuts, caramel and other high-fat goop often added to it - because it contains some of red wine's flavonoids.

Keen gave 10 healthy adults a cup of hot chocolate made from special flavonoid-rich cocoa powder. After the drink, blood cells were temporarily less prone to clot, he said. The effect was similar to how aspirin affects blood, although aspirin is much stronger, he said.

In other studies, small groups of healthy adults ate a Dove bar or serving of M&M's Baking Bits. About two hours later, their blood contained elevated levels of flavonoids and antioxidants, Keen said.

The latest trend in food science is to hunt micronutrients that claim healthy effects, but that doesn't mean people should flock to those foods, said Cyndi Thomson of the University of Arizona, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.

The chocolate research is too preliminary to tell if flavonoids do any good, she cautioned. But she says the best advice is moderation - there's room for treats in a well-balanced diet if people eat lots of healthy foods.

Remember ``chocolate is calorically dense,'' she said. ``You have to weigh that.''