You are originating from Aceh are surely familiar with typical culinary Aceh Kuah Pliek Kuah Pliek u. U is a typical Coconut Curry food originating from Aceh. This dish has the basic ingredients of the dregs of the rest of old coconut oil that has been through the process of oil blackmail.
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In General, this cuisine is completed by the leaves and fruit of gnetum, long beans, peanuts, papaya leaves, cassava leaves, bamboo shoots etlingera elatior, are sometimes served with a type of snail chu who lived on the river. In practice, the Acehnese also add other vegetables to this dish such as long beans, papaya and young jackfruit. In addition to strengthen flavors, sour sunti (star fruit wuluh dried after steamed salt) are added as seasonings particularly. Incomplete if know Pliek U just a cup of ready-made meals in the restaurant. It's good we can see how the initial pengolahanan process, into Pliek U and Kuah Pliek. The main purpose of processing Pliek U is for mengektraksi coconut oil. The processing terbagai into two stages. .
Fermentation
Coconut is used to make coconut Pliek U are old. The flesh of the fruit has been hard, it contains a lot of coconut milk. Once peeled from the skin of fruit (husk), then return the remain batoknya to remove the water. Parts are not to be separated into two parts, just to take out the water alone. After that, the coconut is left well enough alone for two days so that the flesh of the fruit is softened, allowing the bacteria break down starch.
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After that, coconut dikukur and then stored in a container (as Fermenters) for over a week. Every day, at least two times should be stirred; dibolak behind. Effectively in the morning and afternoon. Stir ingredients by hand, so that pembusukannya evenly. If not done, then hotter on the uneven material, thus multiplying the maggots make oil and Pliek U turn rancid
Usually, after entering the day to five, had already formed a pool of oil at the surface. This oil is called Minyeuk Simplah. Coconut oil that has not been exposed to sunlight. This oil is believed to have many benefits. To lower a fever a child or to care for the skin. The longer the more levels of oil produced. It's just that, if not dried for too long then the Palm will be increasingly unraveled to not be extracted again. Optimal time of this storage was 7-9 day.
Drying
Coconut that has been fermented, now dried in the Sun. On the first day to second, just drying only, to remove the moisture in the ingredients. The third day, drying do fade with presses. The hot conditions facilitate the extraction of oil.
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Drying and pengempresan this was done over and over again. If the condition of the Sun well, usually only took two days for the oil mengektrak. So stay Pliek U as a residue.
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The fibres are then roasted peanuts for flavoring the basic manufacture of Kuah Pliek. This process is not simple, is not it? So is natural when U Pliek relatively expensive price in the market.
