NOGOSARI INDONESIAN FOOD RECIPES

       Nagasari is a kind of cake made from rice flour, corn starch, coconut milk, and sugar-filled banana. This cake is usually wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. In addition to the materials mentioned above, nagasari also often steamed with a bandage pandan leaves, causing a distinctive aroma Jepara.

Nagasari or Nogosari (Java) is a type of traditional cakes and cake included in the class. Nagasari cake is a traditional cake which is very popular in the community that are passed from generation to generation. Name nagasari itself as yet have definite information from which berasalnya but in terms of its name has two syllables that Dragon and Sari, we know that the dragon is an animal legends from mainland China whose life strong and one of them symbolized the soul respectable while Sari in Indonesian large dictionary is defined as the main contents of an object. So when put together, Nagasari means the main contents of an object that is respectable or legendary.
 

The event often serves Nagasari cake is a feast, in the Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI) means the banquet to commemorate the event, asking for blessings, and so forth. Kenduri or better known as salvation or kenduren sebuatan (designation feast for the Java community) has existed since long before the arrival of the archipelago. In praktekya, a feast is an event come together, which is generally done by men, with the aim of requesting the smooth top of everything dihajatkan by the organizers who invited the local community to come and led by elder people or people who have expertise in that field; like Kiyai.
 

As for women, festivity giving privacy space in sharing good information about his own family and other neighbors. This is where women can exchange stories freely without interference from the men as long as they prepare the food, because the women will work to prepare a feast in a relatively long time, which is about 4-7 days during the celebration.
 

In the current era, festivity is carried out by every sphere of society, both urban and rural communities. Because the feast is a social mechanism to take care of the unity, by restoring the rift, and reaffirm our goals, and conduct social control over the deviations from the ideals together. Kenduri as a social institution holds and represents many interests
 

Nagasari cake is a typical food Indramayu. Early emergence of cake nagasari is supposedly because Indramayu is a region largest producer of rice in West Java, so that the rice production of abundant people think to cultivate rice not only a staple food only (Rice), then ditumbuklah rice so that it becomes flour which becomes the main ingredient nagasari cake with a mixture of milk and other ingredients, then the cake wrapped in banana leaves and steamed.

Material :

   
     200 gr rice flour
     500 ml coconut milk
     200 gr sugar
     1/4 teaspoon vanilla powder
     1/2 teaspoon fine salt
     3 pieces pandan leaves (washed)
     kepok banana taste (cut into pieces)
     banana leaves to wrap around to taste

 
How to Make Cake Nagasari:

      
1.Combine coconut milk, salt, vanilla powder, sugar and pandan leaves
      
2.Boil over medium heat until boiling, stirring, stirring
      
3.Turn off the heat and lift the coconut milk stew
      
4.Enter the rice flour in a container and pour the hot milk into the cooking containers filled rice flour
      
5.Stir until well blended and the dough is fitting
      
6.Take any one tablespoon of dough and then save on a banana leaf and give the banana slices in the middle and then wrapped (do to finish)
      
7.Steamed dough wrapped until completely cooked, remove chill
    
8.Nagasari cake ready to be served

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