Hello all food lovers,
Today I bought the most popular snack in Indonesia : Gorengan (Fried snack).
Almost every city in Indonesia have this kind of street snack, since it is very easy to make.
Actually, 'gorengan' or fried snack is a common name. The name gorengan doesn't represent only one specific food, but a group of snack-food that deep-fried. Since gorengan is deep-fried, keep in mind that they are quite oily.
Indonesian people are very familiar with gorengan. We usually buy gorengan for snacking time. Since the price is very cheap, people usually buy more than one gorengan. Although gorengan is a snack, it is common for Indonesian people to have gorengan as additional food to main course (rice).
Overview
There are various type of gorengan, depends on the base ingredients.
Some of popular gorengan are :
- Tempe goreng (fried tempe)
- Tahu goreng (fried tofu)
- Pisang goreng (fried banana)
- Singkong goreng (fried cassava)
- Ubi goreng (fried sweet-potato)
- Aci goreng (fried tapioca dough)
- Bakwan goreng (fried mix of dough made of wheat flour, sliced cabbage, and sliced carrot)
- Pisang molen (banana wrapped in wheat flour skin, then fried)
- Tape goreng (fried fermented-cassava)
- Combro (fried grated-cassava dough filled with oncom(fermented tempe))
- Misro (fried grated cassava dough filled with brown sugar)
Those gorengan share common characteristic so they can be called as gorengan :
- They are deep-fried.
- They usually use a tipical kind of batter.
- They usually contain no or very little meat (fried meat or chicken is considered as meal, not snack)
Usually, gorengan seller uses some kind of cart to sell their food. Some types of cart are usually two-wheeled, with size about 2mx60cmx2m (length x width x height).
But, there are also a kind of special cart (well, not precisely a cart) that called as 'pikulan'. The seller has to carry the 'pikulan' on his shoulder.
Here are some photo of Gorengan cart and pikulan : (I'll edit this later)
When gorengan is common found on the street, we can also buy gorengan from restaurants, hotels, small eating house (warung), or any other type of seller, because it's very common.
Ingredients
Since there are so many types of gorengan, it's quite difficult to describe the ingredients one by one. I will write separate posts on this gorengan group to more specify them.
But, here is the common batter that used in gorengan :
some wheat flour
some rice flour
some salt
some pepper
a very little of grinded turmeric (so the batter would be yellow)
some water
some chive
I can't write down the specific amount of each ingredients, because every seller has his own formula. The hard part is to find the best formula of wheat flour and rice flour, so the crispiness would be just perfect.
How to cook
It's very easy. We just deep fried them in middle temperature until they are brownish. Usually we use palm oil as cooking oil (palm oil is the most popular kind of cooking oil in Indonesia).
Where to buy and price
You can find gorengan everywhere. Street seller is very common, but you also can find it in restaurants, hotels, or small eating house (warung).
The price depends on where you buy it. But, the common price if you buy it from street seller is around 500 rupiahs to 700 rupiahs a piece (November 2008). Of course, some seller would sell up to 1000 or 2000 rupiahs if the size is bigger.
I buy this gorengan from a common street seller, he uses two-wheeled cart. I bought them for 500 rupiahs a piece. Well, the taste is just crispy, nothing special actually (there are some seller who sell very tasty gorengan, but i forget where).
Here is some photo of gorengan: (I'll edit this later)
Let's Learn Bahasa Indonesia
How do you spell Gorengan in Bahasa Indonesia?
Go as in go
reng as in prank with silent k
an as in done
Visit Indonesia
There you go, a very common snack in Indonesia. I will write specific post on various type of gorengan. Maybe you want try it? Just fly to Indonesia, my beautiful country :)
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