Indonesian Recipe

Baby corn soup








Ingredients:
5-6 ears of baby corn, 5 spoons of milk, 1 spoon of butter, 1 spoon of flour, salt and pepper.

Direction:
* Boil baby corn and let it cool
* Grind/powder corn with a blender
* Heat butter, put flour after it melts, mix evenly
* Put in powdered corn with salt, pepper, and milk
* Let it sit for five minutes in medium heat

Soto Madura









Ingredients:
500 gr beef or internals, 100 gr bean sprouts, 80 gr rice noodles, 60 gr Indonesian parsley, 60 gr scallions, 60 gr ginger, 1 lime, salt and pepper.

Directions:

* Boil meat until done. Drain and cut into bite-sized slices.
* Remove the tails of bean sprouts, boil until half done
* Boil rice noodles separately
* Keep these in separate plates
* Cut Indonesian parsley and scallions
* Grind shallots, and brown it for a little bit
* Skin and cut ginger
* Make beef stock using beef bones boiled in water for about an hour. Remove bones, and put in salt, pepper, ginger, and shallots.
* Serve the soto by putting the beef, bean sprouts, noodles into a bowl. Pour soup into it.
* Sprinkle with Indonesian parsley and scallions.

Gado gado








Ingredients:
Lettuces, A small bunch of long beans, Young cabbage, 1 cucumber, Tofu, 100 gr soyabean cake, 2 eggs, 5 pieces of red chili pepper, 5 pieces of small chili pepper (jalapeno or scotch bonnet), 3 pieces of shallots, 100 gr. peanuts, lemon, brown sugar, and salt.

Direction:

* Fry an egg and soyabean cake
* Cut into small pieces
* Boil one egg and slice it
* Boil young cabbage, long beans, and slice them
* Peanut sauce:
* Fry peanuts
* Slice shallots, and brown with chili peppers
* Mix and grind all these with brown sugar, lemon, salt and pepper, and boil with little bit of water. (Use this sauce with satay as well)




Opor Solo







Ingredients:
1 chicken, 4 cups of coconut milk, 6 pieces of shallots, 3 pieces of garlic, 120 gram candle nut, 10 gram corriander, 5 gram jintan, 3 helai bay leaves, 1 batang daun sereh, 100 gr lengjuas, salt and pepper.

Destination:

* Cut chicken into pieces
* Grind shallots, garlic, candle nut, corriander, and jintan
* Brown for a little bit.
* Boil chicken with 2 cups of coconut milk, put in sereh and galanga.
* When chicken is about done, put in more coconut milk along with the spice mix

Perkedel Ayam









Ingredients:

1 chicken, 250 gr of bread flour, 40 gr of sagu, 80 gr of onion, 8 pieces of shallots, 1 egg, salt and pepper.

Direction:

* Remove bones from the chicken, cut very thinly
* Cut onion into very small pieces
* Grind shallots
* Evenly mix all the above with bread flour
* Add salt and pepper
* Make mix into small discs about 2-2.5 inch in diameter
* Heat oil on a pan
* Put each disc and fry until dark golden

Beef Semur








Ingredients:
1 lb beef, 6 pieces candle nut, 5 cm of ginger, 5 pieces of shallots, 3 pieces of garlic, salt, pepper, soy sauce.

Direction:

* Slice beef thinly
* Peel shallots and garlic, slice thinly
* Slice ginger and grind candle nut
* Brown shallots, garlic, ginger, and candle nut
* Put in beef and mix them evenly
* Add salt and pepper
* Add 2-3 cups of water so beef will cook evenly


Sambal Goreng Petai








Ingredients:
7 eggs, 4 strings of "petai", 3 cups thick coconut milk, 250 gr ground beef, 4 pieces garlic, 6 pieces of shallots, 6 piece of red chili peppers, 20 gr javanese lemon, 1 tea spoon sugar, salt and pepper.

Direction:

* Remove the yoke of the eggs (use just the whites) Skin petai
* Slice shallots, brown a little bit.
* Mix ground beef with 2 egg whites, mix with sald, pepper to taste.
* Form small balls.
* Let the javanese lemon sit in a cup of water The rest of the egg whites put in a place holder, and steam cook
* Cut into cube sized pieces
* Grind chili, garlic, and add sugar
* Heat pan with a little cooking oil, add shallots and the garlic mix above, followed by the petai a few minutes later.
* Put in the javanese-lemon water, followed by the ground beef balls, add salt and pepper.
* Let simmer for a while, then add the rest of the coconut milk and the egg-white cubes.
* et simmer for another 3 minute.


Bali Satay









Ingredients:
350 gr beef, 1/2 coconut, 3 pieces of garlic, 4 pieces of red chili peppers, 1 spoon brown sugar, 10 gram corriander, 10 gram kencur, 1 lime, galanga, 1 teaspoon shrimp paste, salt and pepper.

Direction:

* Shred beef, shred coconut
* Slice garlic and brown it.
* Heat shrimp paste a little bit
* Get lime juice
* Mix garlic, chili pepper, brown sugar, corriander, kencur, galanga, shrimp paste with a blender
* Mix evenly with beef and coconut and the spice mix above add salt, pepper, and orange juice
* Form thumb-sized pieces from this mix, and stick each on a skewer
* Barbecue until done

Beef Satay







Ingredients:
300 gr beef, 5 shallots, 2 spoons of sweet soy sauce, 1 spoon of vegetable oil, 1 lime, salt and pepper.

Direction:

* Slice beef into bite sized pieces, slice shallots
* Mix everything evenly
* Put beef in skewers
* Barbecue in medium heat until desired level (medium rare recommended).

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Vitamin D Kurangi Resiko TBC

Baru-baru ini seorang ilmuwan dari Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. Katharine Gibney, mempublikasikan hasil penelitiannya.Isinya menyatakan bahwa seseorang yang mengalami kekurangan vitamin D beresiko lebih tinggi mengidap tuberkulosis (TBC, dibanding mereka yang tidak kekurangan.

Katherine bersama beberapa ilmuwan meneliti 375 orang responden, yang terdiri dari warga Afrika Sub Sahara yang sedang berobat dirumah sakit-rumah sakit di Melbourne,Australia sepanjang tahun 2003 hingga 2006. Ternyata, dari penelitian itu, 78% pengidap tuberkulosis mengalami kekurangan vitamin D di dalam tubuh memicu peningkatan infeksi primer bakteri Mycobacterium tuberculosis,penyebab tuberkulosis.


Untuk itu, peneliti menyarankan setiap orang untuk memenuhi kecukupan asupan vitamin D,Apalagi muncul kekhawatiran baru kembali merebaknya wabah TBC di berbagai belahan penjuru dunia. Asupan vitamin D bisa diperoleh dari telur, hati,ikan,susu dan margarin (yang diperkaya dengan vitamin D) dan suplemen vitamin D yang dijual bebas.

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