Sunday, 22 april 2022

Indonesia is known for its diversity. Starting from the culture to the culinary specialties of each region in Indonesia. One of the typical Indonesian foods that are favored by many people is getuk.

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What's more, the color of this typical food of Central and East Java makes it even more interesting. In fact, now many versions of getuk have appeared with various basic ingredients. In the following we will discuss the origins, as well as the recipe and how to make a simple getuk that is delicious and easy to make.

The origins of getuk

Keep in mind, this traditional food has its own story and philosophy. When the Japanese colonized Indonesia, precisely in the Central Java area, rice which was the staple food was very difficult to obtain.

As a result, the people of Magelang are looking for an alternative to their staple food, and cassava, which grows a lot in the yard of their house, is their choice. They processed cassava until finally they found getuk or gethuk in Javanese.

Recipes and how to make getuk

1. Ordinary cassava getuk recipe

This first recipe is the cassava getuk that you usually find. The ingredients and how to make this getuk is easy.

Here are the ingredients and how to make it. Getuk Cassava Ingredients:

• 500 grams (gr) of peeled cassava.

• 150 grams of sugar.

• 2 tablespoons brown/brown sugar.

• 1/4 tsp salt. 1 tsp vanilla powder.

• Grated coconut to taste. Enough food coloring.

How to Make Cassava Getuk:

Steam the cassava until cooked. Then, mix the cassava with sugar, brown sugar, and salt. Add food coloring and vanilla powder. After evenly and finished, you can print it with a cake mold, then sprinkle with coconut.

2. Rainbow cassava getuk recipe

Although many have been sold in the markets. You can still make this rainbow cassava getuk yourself because the ingredients and how to make it are easy.

Rainbow cassava ingredients:

• 500 gr peeled cassava.

• 100 g of powdered sugar.

• 100 gr grated coconut.

• 4 tbsp margarine.

• 1 teaspoon (tsp) vanilla.

• Food coloring.

How to Make Rainbow Cassava:

• Cut the peeled cassava into small pieces.

• Boil the cassava for about 30 minutes.

• If so, remove and puree the cassava.

• Mix cassava powder with margarine, sugar, and vanilla.

• Mix well.

• If you have, divide the three smooth cassava dough, then give coloring to 2 doughs of different colors and mix until evenly distributed.

• Now there are three doughs, colored and not.

• Roll out each dough until thin and smooth the edges.

• Arrange the thin dough on a cutting board.

• The colorless first, then arrive with the colored dough.

• When the dough has hardened, cut into pieces according to taste.

• Serve with grated coconut on top.

3. Recipe for sweet potato getuk

This getuk recipe has a different basic ingredient, namely sweet potatoes. You can also replace cassava with this sweet potato.

Again, the ingredients and how to make it are quite easy. Getuk Yam Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram (kg) of sweet potato.

• 2 tbsp sugar.

• 5 g brown sugar.

• 50 ml to boil sugar.

• Pandan leaves.

• Grated coconut.

How to Make Potato Getuk:

• Steam the potatoes until cooked.

• Blend with sugar.

• Then compact on a baking sheet or tray.

• Set aside about 3 tablespoons of sweet potato.

• Boil brown sugar along with pandan leaves, add a little salt and stir until evenly distributed.

• Combine the brown sugar water with 3 tablespoons of sweet potato and stir until evenly distributed.

• Mix the sweet potato mixture with the compacted sweet potato in the pan. Sprinkle grated coconut.

Those are some recipes that we can try ourselves at home, with ingredients that are easy and cheap to get, but the taste of this getuk is very tasty and sweet.

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