ACEH is one of the areas in the archipelago that has a strong culinary tradition. Similarly, in case of light snacks or snacks. One of the traditional snacks typical of Aceh that still survive until now is keukarah or kue karah. Dried cake that has a sweet and crispy taste to be a fitting friend while relaxing while enjoying a cup of coffee typical of Tanah Rencong. Now, the cake is getting rare. The crisp and crunchy texture combined with a unique shape resembling a bird's nest, making this cake more attractive. On this week's Culinary Edition of the week, Azwani Awi, presents the keukarah snack for the readers.
UNIQUE and weird. The impression was seen when the first time a visitor from Malaysia saw a typical Aceh snacks that ditabalkan keukarah. Looking at the shape, the traveler immediately asked, "What is this? Is this a wallet's nest? "
The question does not stop there. When a tour guide explains that the keukarah is a typical Aceh snack, the guest again threw a question, "This cake is made of swiftlet nest, kah?"
The question is a fairness because it attracts attention. When viewed from the texture, keukarah indeed resembles a bird's nest. Only, more regular shape, can be varied according to taste. There are crescent shapes, rolls, disks, and triangles. However, there is no swallow bird's nest mixture in the dough.
Keukarah is a confectionary made from a mixture of flour and coconut milk. The size of one adult's palm. It feels very crispy, sweet, crisp, and fragile. Because of its unique shape, this cake is often used as a souvenir that can be brought to anywhere.
To make this keukarah cake is quite difficult. It takes special care and patience to get it done. The ingredients such as rice flour, sugar, and water are stirred one into a thick and unbroken dough. With the help of a hollow container or a custom-made coconut shell, the dough is poured into a heated cooking oil slowly, forming a fiber-like slab. Once cooked, the slab is folded into a segidua or triangle.
Making this endurance must be with patience. Therefore, the cake can only be fried one by one in a frying pan, so it takes a relatively long time. The complexity of the manufacturing process causes the hardness found in the shop window, except at certain times, such as Lebaran.
But, for those of you who do not want to bother with a frying pan, can order it or buy in snack shops and souvenirs typical of Aceh. Typically, this type of cake can be found in traditional markets or typical cake sellers such as Lampisang, Aceh Besar, around the historical attractions of Rumah Cut Nyak Dhien, on the highway from Banda Aceh to Meulaboh. While in supermarkets or ordinary pastry shop, hard to find. However, this snack can be found in various regions in the Veranda of Mecca.
Typically, this culinary can be found at a number of wedding celebrations. From various types of typical cakes that are affixed as delivery at the wedding party, keukarah become one type of food submitted by the bride to his future wife.
Not only that, before the feast day or traditional events and festivities in Aceh, this keukarah often become one of the frequent dish. With a cup of coffee or tea, keukarah could be the right choice to enjoy the flavor of crunchy.
Now, this cake has been transformed in various forms as needed. In fact, a choice of souvenirs for tourists. The number of requests make traditional cake makers increasingly excited to continue to sell Aceh's unique cake that began to be forgotten by the community.
Want to try gurihnya keukarah? Let's taste this mumpy eumpung cake.
Secret Recipes How to Make Aceh's Special Karah Cake
If you want to try a snack menu that is different than usual, it seems no harm to try the recipe karah cookies. Kue karah is a typical Aceh snack that will be common in traditional markets of Aceh. Called karah because the shape of the cake is not uniform. When in fact if observed carefully, the shape resembles a crescent moon kok. Apart from the pros cons of this form of karah cake, this karah cake turns out to have a delicious taste loh. It turns out the secret because the rice flour is used as the main ingredient is the result of making manually. Alias we make our own rice flour instead of buying at the store.
Materials needed:
300 gr of rice
500 gr sugar
500 ml of water
1 liter of cooking oil
Steps to How to Make Aceh's Typical Grilled Cake:
First you have to make first rice flour by soaking the rice for 1 night. Then the rice is washed and drained.
If it is, puree the rice to resemble the fine shape of the flour (use a sieve to produce fine flour grains).
Then dry the flour until dry and sifted again until the flour is really smooth.
Once the flour is finished, prepare the container for the inserted sugar and rice flour. Then pour the water little by little, and stir until smooth and dough thickened.
Then prepare a cake mold that is usually made of metal with the design of the holes on the bottom.
Prepare a frying pan with oil that has been heated.
Then put the dough into the cookie cutter. Rotate the mold with the direction of the circle pan with a thickness of 0.5 cm. fry until cooked, then remove and drain.
At the last stage, shape the karah cake according to your taste. But usually the common form resembles a crescent moon.
That is a little typical recipe that can be divided aceh. Hopefully useful, do not forget to try at home. And good luck!