It is your favourite food, right? Round-shaped food like a small ball with warm sauce is delicious to eat when it's raining. even though you like to eat meatballs but you don't know the facts about meatballs, right? Well, here are facts about meatballs
Coming from China
Although meatballs are found in Indonesia, it turns out that these foods are not from Indonesia. Meatballs were first made in the 17th century in China in the Ming Dynasty era. The name of the meatballs itself is taken from the Hokkien language which means ground pork. Because it entered Indonesia where the majority of the people were Muslims, meat for meatballs was changed to beef, fish, shrimp, or chicken.
Presentation
Usually meatballs are served with noodles, rice noodles, and onions, then watered with warm sauce. Well, after that, you can add chili sauce, sweet soy sauce, salt, and other spices until the taste is really according to taste. Some also add boiled dumplings or fried dumplings. In addition to being eaten as meatball sauce, meatballs can also be fried and burned.
Meatballs in Other Countries
In other countries there is also a meatball menu, but the presentation is different from Indonesia. In Sweden, this beef meatball called Swedish Meatball is served with cream sauce and mashed potatoes. Meatballs in Mexico are called Albondigas and are served with tomato sauce or almond sauce.
In Poland, the bakso is called Pulpety, served with mushroom sauce and sour cream. Meatballs in India are called Kofta, using fried mutton and served with eggs and vegetables. In China alone, meatballs are usually fried before being boiled into ginger-flavored gravy.
Well, that's the fact about meatballs. Do you like meatballs? :D
