Monday, April 20, 2015

Traditional crackers in Indonesia

Snacks

Kue


Indonesian snacks, such as tahu isi,pisang gorengrisoles, timpan, lemper, and kue pisang.
Indonesia has a rich collection of snacks called kue (cakes and pastry), both savoury and sweet. Traditional kue usually made from rice flour, coconut milk, coconut sugar and mostly steamed or fried instead of baked. Traditional kue are popularly known as kue basah ("wet kue") that has moisty and soft texture because of rich coconut milk. The kue kering (dried kue) is local name for cookies.
Indonesia has rich variations of kue, both native-origin or foreign-influenced. Popular ones include Bika Ambonkue pisangkue cubit,klepononde-ondenagasarikue pandanlupislemanglemperlontongtahu isigetukrisolespastellumpiabakpialapis legitsoes,poffertjes and bolu kukus.

Traditional crackers


Krupuks in vacuum tin cans.
Traditional crackers are called krupuk, which are usually consumed as a crunchy snack or to accompany main meals. These crispy snacks sometimes are added upon the main meal to provide crunchy texture; several Indonesian dishes such as gado-gado, karedok, ketoprak, lontong sayur, nasi uduk, asinan and bubur ayam are known to require specific type of krupuk as toppings. There are wide variations of krupuk available across Indonesia. The most popular ones would be krupuk udang (prawn crackers) and krupuk kampung orkrupuk putih (cassava crackers).
Other popular types include krupuk kulit (dried buffalo-skin crackers), emping melinjo (gnetum gnemon crackers), and kripik (chips or crisps), such as kripik pisang (banana chips) and keripik singkong (Cassava chips), rempeyek, is a flour-based cracker with brittle of peanuts, anchovies or shrimp bound by crispy flour cracker, rengginang or intip (Javanese) ia rice cracker made from sun-dried and deep fried leftover rice.
source wikipedia

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