TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Google Doodle displays rendang food today, Wednesday (21/8/2024).
You can see this display when accessing the page home on the Google search engine.
At the very top of the Google Doodle, there is a rendang image.
Also included are kitchen spices for cooking rendang.
Starting from garlic, ginger, lemongrass, chilies, star anise, to coconut.
Quoted from wikipediarendang comes from the land of Minangkabau, West Sumatra.
Rendang is a meat-based dish produced from a long, low temperature cooking process using various spices and coconut milk.
This food can be found in all corners of Indonesia, especially in typical Padang food restaurants.
Please note, rendang was designated as an Indonesian food by the Ministry of Tourism in 2018.
The determination of national food is based on the culinary community’s Forum Group Discussion (FGD).
Apart from rendang, national food others include soto, satay, fried rice and gado-gado.
Also read: Beef Rendang Recipe, Cooking Inspiration to Make Use of Leftover Sacrificial Meat
Number 1 Most Delicious Food in the World
Rendang was named the number 1 most delicious food in the world in 2017.
At that time, CNN International released a list of the “50 Most Delicious Foods in the World”.
Rendang ranks number one followed by fried rice at number two.
This determination was based on voting on the Facebook social media page and succeeded in collecting 35,000 votes.
Quoted from kemenparekraf.go.idBefore being known as the most delicious food, rendang has a long history.
Its journey began in the early 15th century as a dish for local nobles.
Rendang was chosen as food for traveling because it can last a long time without destroying its taste.
This is in line with the tradition of wandering or migrating typical of the Minangkabau people. In fact, this tradition still continues today.
The long-lasting quality of rendang is proportional to the time needed to cook it.
To cook one pot of rendang, it takes around 4-8 hours.
This long cooking time differentiates typical Minang rendang from rendang from Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries.
Because it is cooked for a long time, the texture of this typical West Sumatran culinary dish is drier, softer, but still crunchy.
Meanwhile, rendang from other regions is generally wetter and tougher, because it does not go through repeated cooking and heating processes.
Also read: Ceplok Egg Rendang Recipe for Sahur Menu Inspiration, a Practical and Delicious Dish
Treated as a typical food, rendang holds 4 philosophical values for the Minang people.
The first element is meat or in Minang language it is called meat. This element is the symbol of Niniak Mamak (tribal chief in Minang language).
The second element is coconut or karambia which symbolizes Cadiak Pandai or intellectuals. Furthermore, lado or chili symbolizes religious scholars, and cookers or spices are symbols of the Minangkabau people.
The unique taste of West Sumatran rendang is apparently influenced by typical Indian food which is rich in spices.
This is not surprising, considering that Sumatra was once a world trade center visited by traders from various countries.
(Tribunnews.com/Endra)
