Traditional Foods of Minangkabau

Minangkabau traditional food is one of the most traditional diner chain triumphed in Indonesia. Traditional foods of Minangkabau have a high taste because most of every dishes served has recipes with spices diverse and cooked in the process quite a long time.

Here are the top 10 of Minangkabau traditional food :

1. Rendang 
With beef as the main ingredient which can now be found in a variety of varied ivory, a few of coconut milk mixed with pepper, onion, turmeric leaves, kaffir lime leaves and rustle. This food is perfect served as a side dish, where it is eaten as a friend of lemang, rice, sticky yellow or sticky turmeric, ketupat palas or sticky rice cake, rice cake rice, and bread. 

2. Sate Padang 
This confectionary made from beef, tongue, or offal (heart, intestine, and tetelan) thick peanut sauce with herbs (like porridge) and spiked with lots of chili so it was to be spicy. There are three variants of the Sate Sate which is Padang Padang, Sate Padang Panjang and Sate Pariaman, all of which comes from the land of West Sumatra, Indonesia. 

3.Dendeng Balado 
Snack of beef sliced ​​thin and wide and then dried and fried until dry and the next stage of the presentation of fried meat was seasoned with Sambal Balado. Sambal Balado is a chili sauce that cut into chunks. 

4. Gulai Cancang
Made of meat and some parts of organs in other bull mixed with various spices variants including chili and coconut milk, but cooked shorter so they fry. These foods are usually presented as a friend of warm rice. 

5. Soto Padang 
Food is one of the Minangkabau soup, made from a beef with spices and variants soup. 

6. Asam Padeh
Ordinary materials used are tuna, snapper, mackerel fish, carp, and squid which is then combined with herbs and spices to produce a taste that good with combination sour and spicy.

7. Lemang 
Made from rice and coconut milk are put in the reed section and wrapped with banana leaves and burned to cook. The usual snacks served abuzz. 

8. Sambal Lado Tanak 
A complementary sauce on typical dishes Minang, Sambal lado tanak made from chili cooked with certain materials, materials that are commonly used are anchovies, eggs, eggplant, banana etc. 

9. Palai Rinuak 
Palai rinuak made from fish rinuak given seasoning and grated coconut and wrapped with banana leaves and then steamed, spiced palai meaning in language is a kind of Minang and rinuak fish-sized lighters are numerous in lake. 

10. Pangek Masin
Is cooked with spices such as when we make a salad seasoning fish, the only difference is the use of basil leaves that tanama are still a family with basil.

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