Hi all, This is my first entry for the #monomad challenge. I frequently visit some post in black and white community and foodies but until now I haven't got any opportunity to jump into these societies. Let's start by this one.

KETUPAT

It's a custom in here, Indonesia, during Eid Mubarak Day we have ketupat as our dish. Ketupat is a rice cake, in form of diamond shaped and wrapped by coconut leaves. If we go googling it, we will get "steamed diamond shaped rice" as the translation. People usually have Chicken Curry as the main dish alongside with ketupat.

To eat this ketupat, we do not peal off the coconut leaves first. What we do is to cut the rice cake in half, then next step is to cut the rice cake into small box shape then we throw away the leaves. Depend on your own portion, most elder people can not eat 1 ketupat for themselves, so usually we cut off 2 ketupat for 3 people.

THE DISHES

Yesterday I was quite bored with chicken curry so I prepared other dishes.

Fried Chicken With Coconut Grates and Spice

I preferred having this fried chicken with some coconut taste rather than chicken curry or regular fried chicken.

Sweet Ox Stew

The local name is Semur Daging. Usually we use beef, but this time we pick ox due to price and availability. Ox meat, potatoes and carrots were mixed in there.

Sambal Goreng

Sambal goreng is fried chili, I don't know why it's called that. Maybe the right naming is Spicy and Sweet Sautéed Chicken Gizzard.

Pumpkin Soup with Coconut Milk

It's not a pumpkin soup, it's a soup of coconut milk. We put pumpkin slices, tempe (soy cake), long beans into it and the most important ingredient was stinky beans. I am not a big fan about it, however the taste won't be good without stink beans.

HOW TO SERVE

I think most of south eastern asia people love to mix everything into their bowl. Thats how we eat this Ketupat dishes. We take small portion of each, and mix all in our bowl / plate. Especially for me, I didn't like Sweet Stew so I skipped that one.

Anyway if you are curious why we served the dishes in small bowl or containers, that because we had packed them into small baskets and containers then gave to our visitors to be taken home instead of having lunch together. I had a couple of elderly in my house so I did not want my house to be full of people. It was a simple precautions towards covid 19.

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