Traditional foods of Aceh

1. Lemang

Lemang is a food made ​​of glutinous rice cooked with spices typical. Lemang will be the target consumers when Ramadan and Eid. Although the food is there all the time but lemang be more pronounced if eaten during Ramadan and Eid. If it is Ramadan or Eid lemang demand is rising sharply.

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Lemang analogous to the rice cake if in Java or diamond, it's just that it feels and how to make it a little differently. The difference mainly because of the element of coconut milk, thus making lemang more tasty and relatively lean. Another difference is material. Although lemang basic ingredients are rice, but some are using glutinous rice or sticky rice. These foods are usually eaten with black sticky tape or can be with meat or chicken rendang, combined with the sauce.

How to wrap lemang almost similar to the rice cake, but also how to cook it that makes it quite unique, ie, by including rice / sticky rice / glutinous rice in bamboo tubes. Furthermore, the tube is burned. How to burn lemang will determine the flavor. Traditionally, these tubes are usually burned by using coconut fiber for a certain time. While in modern times such as now, a wide range of cooking methods, can use the oven, microwave, stove or gas. But of course it's not as good as lemang is cooked the traditional way.
Average price of a bamboo tube lemang around Rp 15 thousand - Rp 20 thousand. When used as a food package with rendang, prices range from Rp 30 thousand or more. If you want to combine it with black sticky tape, you can buy at a price of black sticky tape Rp.3.000, -/bungkus.
Ingredients:
• 1 Contents Lemang

    * 1 kg of rice sticky rice (black or white)
    * 5 grains of coconut (coconut milk is taken and diluted)
    * Salt to taste to taste
• Tube Packaging
Young banana leaves to tasteLemang reed that has been cleaned (thin-skinned bamboo that is used specifically to make lemang, instead of the usual thick-skinned bamboo used for making furniture.
• Fiber to the combustion
How to Make:

    * Salt dissolved into the coconut evenly, then pour into the rice sticky rice. The dough should not be overwhelmed and do not get too dry.
    * Insert the dough into a bamboo tube that has been coated by a young banana leaves. High dough roughly along the tube is reduced about 7 cm from the surface of the tube.
    * After that, burning bamboo tubes which already contained the dough by way of enforcing them on a backrest. Backrest is placed in such a way (in the inter-fiber and bamboo tubes) so that the tube gets heat from the burned coconut fiber. Combustion will last approximately 3 hours. Turn them bamboo tube position so that all parts get heat evenly.
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2. Timphan

Timphan is a cake / dish typical of Aceh when Eid / holiday either feast of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, Timphan was made 1 or 2 days before Eid and durability can be achieved more or less seminngu, Timphan is the main course menu for guests who visit home when widths.

For the good people of Aceh in Aceh until the whole world that knows no ama no cake / dough on this one, because it has become a tradition for generations and common knowledge in Aceh that the name Timphan any mothers or women in Aceh can make it.

Timphan which is a soft food wrapped in banana leaves is the most famous young is Timphan Sugar-apple flavor. Before ahead of Eid usually mothers have prepared a good young banana leaf picking in the garden or bought in the market.

Timphan is so famous in Aceh, so many expressions / words Timphan proverb among which "Uroe goet buluen goet Timphan ma peugoet beumeuteme rasa " (Good day for a good month Timphan mother should be able to feel).

As for the ingredients and how to make it as follows, depending on how the desired portion, below we ambila ingredients for 15 servings (1 serving approximately equal to 114 calories):

ingredients:

250 grams of mashed plantains
Glutinous rice flour 200 g
Thick coconut milk 2 tablespoons
Whiting water 1 tbsp
Garam1 / 4 tsp

contents:

Chicken eggs 2 eggs
50 ml thick coconut milk
Sugar 100 GR
Jackfruit cooked small chopped 25 gr
Wheat flour ½ tsp
Pandan leaves 1 sheet
Finely grated coconut 50 g
Vanilli ¼ tsp.

How to make:

1. Combine all ingredients by stirring flour and banana sticky rice that has been entered dihaluskanserta coconut milk, lime water and salt until well blended, the batter is used for the skin.

2. Beat eggs and sugar until thick hear mixer or the like (before the first mixer of mothers in Aceh ngeremas pake hand) and enter the flour and coconut milk, stirring until blended, add the cooked jackfruit chopped into small pieces and finely grated coconut then give the pandan leaves and cook until thick, then lift give Vanilla and mix again. Once cooked let cool and use as iosi timphan.

3.Ambil young banana leaf that has been cut into pieces according to one measure timphan basting with oil and leather trimmed dough leaves were then put the dough on the contents continue rolled up, wrapped up like the picture above, steamed until cooked for about 10 minutes.

Good luck and please enjoy.

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