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“Tiwul”, Traditional Food From Wonogiri

nasi tiwul khas Wonogiri
(source : gambarnasitiwul.com)

Tiwul”, Traditional Food From Wonogiri

Tiwul, is a traditional food from Wonogiri. Tiwul has a similar taste with rice but the texture is finer than rice and the shaped like small balls. The special characteristic of tiwul is where you can taste a sweet and savory of it.

 Tiwul is made ​​from dried cassava / gaplek. Cassava is the alternative food for some Indonesian while waiting for their rice to yield. But for the people of Wonogiri, cassava has been their staple food since long time ago. Through processing, they make tiwul out of cassava as a food in place of rice. The form is composed of clumps of small granules and slightly chewy make this special food is a delicious food.

Tiwul have been identified with poverty, now transformed into a souvenir of the most sought after. Tiwul managed to boost the prestige image of the boundaries. Memories of the romance of the past, treated as fine grains tiwul enjoyed. Food that was used as a substitute for rice is now a snack with sugar-sweetened coconut.

How to process cassava into tiwul is quite simple. First of all, sweet potatoes peeled and then dried in the sun to dry. Dried cassava is called gaplek. Then dried cassava is mashed up into flour. In antiquity, this process is done in a simple and old. Cassava crushed using a stone mortar to a powder. But now there are special milling machine, making it faster and more uniform fineness of flour. Cassava flour - also called tapioca flour - is then given a mixture of water and sugar, then stir in the Tampah to form tiny droplets, much like grains of rice.

Then do a process called "nginteri" by rotating tampah. sift process is like a grain of rice. Tiwul granules placed inside Tampah, then sifted and tossed up into coarse and fine grains separate. It takes special skills to do this process.

After that, tiwul fine grain leather is placed in a bamboo steamer. One thing that should not be overlooked is, needs to be made a hole in the middle tiwul which functions as a way out of the water vapor when steamed. Once ready, tiwul steamed for about 30 minutes. To obtain a more savory flavor, steamed tiwul using firewood.

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