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Sago Worm

Unique food today would talk about the stangest food in the world. The strangest food in the world today is sago worm from Papua INA.
Even there are a lot unique or strange food from others but today. I would tell you about my traditional food that propbably you didn't know it before. The strangest food today from Papua (Irian Jaya).

Many people know about this little thing, and it becomes our tradition for eating sago worm.

What's is Sago Worm?

Sago worm is kind of worm or caterpillar that lived in sago tree. And it is not just small worm but big worm. :D

Maybe, some of you afraid of these little things but, those all taste delicious. One thing that you should know about this food, the food contains of a lot of nutritions  9.40 % protein, essential amino acids, aspartic acid 1.85%, glutamic acid 2.35%, tyrosine 1.90%, lysine 1.97% then methionin 1.07 %.

Papua INA

You may think that the people would take the sago worm from the trees when it's alive. As the matter of fact, people took the sago worm from the tress when it was cut by the people, then they leave it for several days, and the sago worm would come on that sago tree.



You could also cook sago worm to be soup like this pic :

Soup Sago Worm

Banana Chips

Banana Chips is our traditional food, especially for snack this food becomes more famous cause has the slim shape and nice taste.
This chip has been our traditional food since our ancestor gives the tips how to take care on banana. Banana is our plants that grow up fertile in Asia. Perhaps, it causes the climate that is appropriate in Indonesia. From the west till the east, we could find the banana plant and all of them grow up fertile.

Raw banana to make chips banana

It becomes our tradition when the people make the banana as our additional food. The banana could be porridge, chips, fried banana, or desserts. Beside that the monkey like banana. The banana usually grow up in the jungle, but now you could find the banana trees in every single village in Indonesia.

Here they are the recipes to make banana chips:
1 kilos banana
2 -4 teaspoons of whiting (to make the banana more be crackers)
2 litter water
2 kg cooking oil

How to make the spices that need to be mashed:
10 cloves of garlic
3 tablespoons of coriander
3 cm turmeric
4-6 tablespoons of salt or as your wish (just to make your chips delicious)

How to make the chips banana:
Peel the banana from the skin then wash with water and slice thinly in long shape for about 5-4 cm.
Add the spices into water then put the slice banana wait till the spices infiltrate on the banana.
Fry it, don’t do such as long frying, cause it could make your banana chips burn.

Enjoy ;)

Cassava' Soup with ice (Kolak Singkong)

Kolak Singkong is also our traditional food especially from Java and Sumatra island. To make kolak singkong or cassava’s soup is easy way to do.
Many people would like to have this soup when in the cool weather. In another way we could have this soup through adding the ices in this soup to get fresh taste in hot weather. So weather we consume it in with hot and cool soup, the cassava soup still tastes delicious. Then for this recipe is very simple one, you just need to boil the cassava until smooth and combine with brown sugar.

Cassava Soup and Banana

There is secret recipe to make it more delicious. To change the brown sugar is used in the ingredient with sugar palm (gula aren). Then here they are the recipes:

Ingredients:
400 grams of cassava (cut in small pieces 4-5 cm), Choose the best cassava to make it (Mempur Cassava)
300 grams of banana (cut in small pieces too)
700 ml of coconut milk
2-5 ounces of sugar
5 ounces of palm sugar
1200 ml water
3 pandan leaves
1 pack of vanilla
10 tablespoons of milk

How to make the Kolak Singkong:
Boil the water and the cassava for about 60 minutes, or (wait until the cassava smooth or tender)
Enter the coconut milk and others ingredient into the boiled water. (you need to wait until they are all well done). It takes for about 10-13 minutes.
Serve it. ;)

Anunu Senerbre

If you want to know, how to make it and how it looks like? I will share the Indonesian Traditional Recipe from Papua New Guinea.

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of anchovies (you must choose the anchovies that’s still wet)
• 3 taro leaves and trees (cut in pieces)
• 1½ coconut (shredded)
• 1½ teaspoons of salt or to taste

How to make it:

1. The first step is “wash and rinse the anchovies wet then fry a half of cooked.
2. Dry the taro leaves until it’s getting wilted then slice, and boil until it smooth (then lift and press or squeeze the water. Add the anchovies, coconut shredded, salt to the water.
3. Then the last step is “steam it until cooked”.

Ingredients:

• 350 grams of rice
• 50 grams of shrimp (cleaned it)
• 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons of cooking oil (This cooking oil for sautéing)

Seasoning that we have to be mashed:

• 5 pieces of chili
• 2 teaspoons of shrimp paste
• 8 pieces of red onion
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1½ teaspoons of coriander
• 1 teaspoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of salt, or to taste

Additional complement for Fried Rice:

• 3 eggs (mix with salt and fry)
• Cucumber
• Fried onions

How to cook fried rice:

1. Fry all of the seasoning wait until it’s done and smell fragrant. Add the 4 tablespoons of water, soy sauce stir it well.
2. Enter the shrimp (stir until one minute). And then add the rice; stir it continuously or constantly until it’s done. I suggest to you don’t use big fire to heat the rice, low heat is better.

Serve this fried rice (Nasi Goreng) with additional complement such as tomatoes, cucumber, and fried egg, and then sprinkle the fried onions.