Typical food from East Java Indonesia

When visiting tourist destinations in East Java, don’t forget to do a culinary tour. This is because the culinary delights of East Java Indonesia are very famous for their various culinary specialties that can make your taste buds addicted. East Javanese cuisine is very distinctive, famous for its spicy taste and thick spices and of course the prices are affordable. Very suitable for those of you who like spicy culinary flavors

East Java Province is one of the provinces in Indonesia which has an extraordinary geographical position and resource potential. One of the tourist destinations in East Java Province is Mount Bromo, Ijen Crater, Tumpak Sewu Waterfall, Sukamade Beach and many more, not only tourist destinations that are sought after by both local and international tourists. However, many tourists visit to do culinary tourism in East Java while touring destinations.

One of the famous foods is pecel. This type of food consists of rice with additional vegetables doused in peanut sauce, a dish of vegetable rice and peanut sauce also drizzled with rawon sauce. Pecel rawon is a typical East Java culinary delicacy that is really worth tasting. Pecel rawon is widely sold in street stalls and restaurants. A portion of pecel rawon generally contains rice plus boiled vegetables such as long beans, bean sprouts, spinach, sprinkled with pecel chili sauce and then topped with rawon sauce. Meanwhile the side dishes range from fried shrimp, tofu, tempeh, beef empal, lung, and also crumbled peanut brittle.

The concept of pecel rawon is not much different from other culinary delights such as rujak soto and rujak bakso, which are two combined culinary delights. If you want to add a spicy taste to rawon pecel dishes, then use the pecel chili sauce and rawon sauce to have your own measurements so that the taste is balanced. You can make the recipe for rawon pecel at home because the spices and ingredients are easy to find.

Rawon pecel ingredients and seasonings are as follows:

• Beef brisket
• Pecel seasoning
• Red onion
• Garlic
• Roasted candlenuts, pepper and coriander
• Kluwek fruit
• Roasted cumin
• Large red chili fruit
• Roasted peanuts

Vegetables: long beans, kale, bean sprouts, cucumber and basil to taste.Mix all the pecel spices together, don’t forget to add salt and sugar to taste. Blend the spices and stir-fry until fragrant, add stock/plain water, add the beef and simmer until the meat changes color and add water, salt and seasoning to taste, adjust the taste then add the stock and boil the meat until tender.

To serve, serve on a plate with rice and add boiled vegetables, chopped cucumber and basil, pour rice with rawon sauce, top with pecel seasoning and fried onions, add accompaniments such as peanut brittle, crackers or according to your taste. If you are curious about what it tastes like, you can try culinary tourism in East Java