Do you like to taste new foods??? If your answer is "yea, I do", alright here I will tell about "Kerupuk Basah" or wet crackers from Kapuas Hulu. Have you ever heard about this one?? This menu special is imported directly from Kapuas Hulu, West Borneo. The first time you hear the name "Kerupuk Basah" or wet crackers, surely people would imagine that crackers are so soft because they soaked in the water or something like that. However, this wet crackers absolutely different from the term cracker is often used in Java / Sumatra where crackers are generally secondary side dish as an accompaniment with rice to make enjoyed food.The crackers now be a culture in Indonesia, from Sabang to Merauke, so we are always easy to find them in the restaurant or food stalls.
By knowing exactly about crackers, people will easily to imagine how the taste and the types of crackers. In general, the crackers dough of rice flour / wheat / starch / tapioca given to the particular flavor and then fried in the hot pan, so it was too crisp. Therefore, people will automatically think of the crackers as a crunchy and crispy food.
But do not be wrong, Kapuas Hulu in West Borneo cracker is not only a dry or crispy cracker. Here there is also a wet cracker. Remember, not dry crackers that is soaked !! It is crackers deliberately not dry but wet.
Can you see the picture below???? It looks so tasty, right? Let you taste it I guaranteed that you will never regret. J Yummyyy....
Actually if you think from the general view of people going crackers, these food are not appropriate when they called crackers. Because the connotation of crackers will always lead to brittle stuff, hard, dry and crispy. While these foods are chewy and soft. It is more like "Empek-Empek" if in Sumatra or "Siomay" in Java.
If you have planned to visit Kapuas Hulu, you can find it there. There are a lot of places that sell "Kerupuk Basah" or if you want to try to make it, I have the recipe.
To make "Kerupuk Basah" , the ingredient as follows :
By knowing exactly about crackers, people will easily to imagine how the taste and the types of crackers. In general, the crackers dough of rice flour / wheat / starch / tapioca given to the particular flavor and then fried in the hot pan, so it was too crisp. Therefore, people will automatically think of the crackers as a crunchy and crispy food.
But do not be wrong, Kapuas Hulu in West Borneo cracker is not only a dry or crispy cracker. Here there is also a wet cracker. Remember, not dry crackers that is soaked !! It is crackers deliberately not dry but wet.
Can you see the picture below???? It looks so tasty, right? Let you taste it I guaranteed that you will never regret. J Yummyyy....
Actually if you think from the general view of people going crackers, these food are not appropriate when they called crackers. Because the connotation of crackers will always lead to brittle stuff, hard, dry and crispy. While these foods are chewy and soft. It is more like "Empek-Empek" if in Sumatra or "Siomay" in Java.
If you have planned to visit Kapuas Hulu, you can find it there. There are a lot of places that sell "Kerupuk Basah" or if you want to try to make it, I have the recipe.
To make "Kerupuk Basah" , the ingredient as follows :
- Fillet of fish, the most delicious fish Belida (Notopetrus Chitala), or fish Toman (Channa Micropeltes)
- Sago flour
- Starch
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic
While for the gravy sauces:
- Great chili
- Peanuts
- Salt
- Granulated sugar
Fish batter and flour milled and mixed until blended while adding some water, then dab salt, garlic and pepper pate. After dough together and then formed into "Lungkung" (rounded elongated like a big sausage) and then steamed until cooked.
For the chili sauce, fried peanuts and then stay mashing all the ingredients above and mixed into one and added water.
Usual. wet crackers can we enjoyed in the cafes or at roadside stalls in the city in Putussibau, West Borneo. A glass Coffe accompanied with a plate of delicious food can make it better. However, although it's delicious , wet crackers vulnerable to be taken away. Besides not durable will also decrease the taste.
Method of preservation (naturally), usually done by wrapping wet crackers with wheat flour, this method lasting for 1-2 trip. After reaching the destination, washed them with warm water to clear that flour, then steamed them again.
Lately, there are many variant of "Kerupuk Basah" to more enjoyed them, after steamed you can fried or baked them.
The TASTE ???????
It's definitely yummy, it's similar to "Siomay" or "Batagor". But the Belida's aroma is more felt in this food. Especially if you dyed them with gravy sauce, you will think this food is the number one great food that you have ever eaten, believe me ! Even this is very famous in Putussibau and it has its own distinctive taste compared to the existing wet cracker in the other areas although in equally place in West Borneo. Indeed, from headwaters of fish of "Belida" relatively more delicious than fish in estuary.(Sri Siti Wahyuni)
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