rendang indonesian food that must be tried!

Rendang or Randang is a spicy flavored meat dish that uses a mixture of various herbs and spices. This cuisine is produced from a heated cooking process repeatedly with coconut milk. The cooking process takes hours (usually about four hours) to dry and solid black. At room temperature, rendang can last for weeks. Rendang is cooked in a shorter time and the coconut milk has not dried up called kalio, a light brown golden color.

Rendang can be found in Padang Restaurant around the world. This cuisine is popular among the people of Indonesia and countries in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, and Thailand. In its home area, Minangkabau, rendang is served in various traditional ceremonies and special occasions. Although rendang is a traditional Minangkabau cuisine in general, each area in Minangkabau has different cooking techniques and use of spices.

In 2011, rendang was crowned as the first ranked dish in the list of World's 50 Most Delicious Foods (50 World's Delicious Cuisine) held by CNN International.

History

The origins of rendang are traced back to Sumatra, especially Minangkabau. For the Minang community, rendang has been around since time immemorial and has become a traditional cuisine served in various customs and daily cuisine. As a traditional cuisine, rendang is thought to have been born since the Minang people held their first custom event. Then this cooking art evolved into other cultured Malay cultures; ranging from Mandailing, Riau, Jambi, to the country across the country Sembilan many inhabited monagers from Minangkabau. That's why rendang is widely known in both Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.

Rendang increasingly famous and widespread far beyond its original territory thanks to the culture of wandering Minangkabau tribe. Minang people who go abroad than work as employees or trade, many of them entrepreneurial open Padang Restaurant throughout the archipelago, even extending to neighboring countries to Europe and America. It is this restaurant that introduces rendang and other Minangkabau dishes extensively.

Rendang is also a special meal for Idul Adha. The number of sacrificial meat makes the people of Padang compete to cook rendang.