DENPASAR, BALIPOST.com – Sorghum can be an alternative food to replace rice for those of you who may be trying to live a healthy life. Sorghum is a cereal plant originating from East Africa.
This plant has a high nutritional content so it can be an alternative food to replace rice, and is quite popular in Indonesia and other tropical areas. According to the Ministry of Health website, sorghum is a type of grass which is one of the top five cereals in world production.
This tree is towering in height with small fruit collected at the tip of the trunk. Sorghum seeds are round, small and slightly brownish.
The contents of sorghum include iron, calcium and vitamins B1 and B3. 100 grams of sorghum contains 332 calories, 11 grams of protein, 3.3 grams of fat, 73 grams of carbohydrates, 28 milligrams of calcium, 1.1 milligrams of iron and 287 milligrams of phosphorus.
In Indonesia, the use of sorghum as a food ingredient is still very small. This is caused by a lack of understanding about the benefits of sorghum and how it is processed.
If you are curious about sorghum and want to try it, but you are confused about how to process it? No need to be confused anymore, here are several types of processed sorghum that you can try, reported from various sources:
1. Milled Sorghum Rice
Sorghum seeds that have had their skin removed as a result of polishing to obtain milled sorghum rice. A machine consisting of a stone grinding cylinder is used to polish sorghum grain so that the rice produced is clean.
2. Teng-teng Sorghum
This preparation is made from sorghum rice. In this process, polishing is only done once, after the beans have been polished they are then made tos (pop). Then heat the sugar until it melts, then add the sorghum toss into the sugar liquid and stir until smooth. Then put the tos mixture and sugar into the mold while it is still hot, then compact it with a bottle until the mold space is completely filled.
3. High five Sorghum
In making sorghum toss, it is necessary to polish the sorghum seeds until they are clean white. This is done so that the resulting product looks clean, attractive and tastes better. Next, making sorghum toss is the same as making popcorn.
4. Sorghum Flour
Sorghum flour is produced by grinding sorghum seeds using a tool that has a sharp and smooth iron cylinder. Sorghum flour functions as the main component in various types of food such as cakes and bread. (Cahya Dwipayanti/balipost)
