KOMPAS.com – The Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) program has started since Monday (6/1/2025) in various regions in Indonesia, including the Mentawai region.
Quoted from the page Kompas.comMonday (6/1/2025), specifically in the Mentawai area, the food ingredients chosen as free nutritious side dishes are shrimp and fish.
There are many ideas for food preparations that can be made with shrimp as the main ingredient, one of which is shrimp pumpkin lodeh.
If you want to make it at home, you can read the complete shrimp recipe in the book “100 Delicious Recipes for Homemade Vegetable Lodeh Soup, Soto Soup, Semur” Indriani’s work (2014) published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama follows.
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Shrimp pumpkin lodeh ingredients:
- 5 pieces of chicken wings (cut into 2 parts)
- 125 grams of shrimp (peeled and cleaned)
- 125 grams yellow pumpkin (cut into cubes)
- 75 grams of pumpkin leaves (pick the leaves)
- 2 sweet corns (combed)
- 1 purple eggplant (cut into pieces)
- 1,500 milliliters of coconut milk from 1 coconut
- 2 starfruit (cut lengthwise)
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 lime leaves
- 1 stalk lemongrass (take the white part and slice it obliquely)
- 3 centimeters galangal (crushed)
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons oil (for frying)
Ground seasoning ingredients:
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 5 red onions
- 2 candlenuts (roasted)
- 2 centimeters turmeric (roasted)
- 6 curly red chilies
- 5 curly green chilies
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How to make shrimp pumpkin lodeh:
1. Saute the ground spices with bay leaves, lime leaves, lemongrass and galangal until fragrant, then add the chicken pieces and cook until they change color.
2. Pour in the coconut milk, pumpkin, salt and sugar, then cook until it boils and the chicken is cooked. Add shrimp, pumpkin leaves, sweet corn, eggplant and starfruit.
3. Cook, stirring occasionally, until all ingredients are cooked, then adjust the taste with additional salt and seasoning before removing.
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