The Exotic Snacks From Java

These traditional snacks are commonly sold in wet market in Java, so people named it Jajan Pasar. But you can also meet these snacks by traveling vendor that walk around kampongs in Central Java. If you’re lucky enough, although only visit Jakarta you still could meet the traveling vendor in kampong Depsos Bintaro Pesanggrahan, South Jakarta.

Tiwul

Ingredients:
300 gr dried cassava flour (tepung gaplek)
70 ml water
2 pandanus leaves (daun pandan)
100 gr palm sugar
100 gr young scrapped coconut, steamed with pandanus leaves and salt for 15 minutes
¼ teaspoon salt
Banana leaves

How to make it:

1. Put dried cassava flour in winnowing tray, spattered with water and beat it until the dough is granulated.
2. Put banana leaves in hot steamer, add the dough on top of it.
3. Add palm sugar, steamed for about 60 minutes.
4. Served with scrapped coconut.

Sawut

Ingredients:
500 gr cassava
150 gr sugar
½ tablespoon salt
2 pandanus leaves

Complement:
250 gr young scrapped coconut
¼ teaspoon salt
1 pandanus leaf
50 gr sugar

How to make it:

1. Take cassava, peel and wash it. Scrapped, add sugar and salt.
2. Put in hot steamer, add pandanus leaves and steamed until cooked.
3. Mixed the complement ingredient and steamed for 15 minutes
4. Served Sawut with young scrapped coconut.

Recipes source: Tabloid Nova No. 964 – 15 Aug 2006 (Tiwul) / www.tabloid-nova.com (sawut) Photos by moderator