Typical Acehnese Traditional Cuisine Kuah Pliek U

Cooking traditional dishes is not complete, it feels like doing it alone, cooking together at certain moment, is one of the characteristics of this one dish.

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PLIEK U

Pliek U is one of the specialties of this dish which is processed from fermented coconut by means of rotting the coconut, then drying and processing with a very traditional machine, and then squeezed to take the oil. In other words, pliek u is the result of fermenting coconut to extract coconut oil, and it is this coconut pulp, which will be the basic ingredient for making pliek U vegetable soup.

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Pliek U sauce is one of the traditional Acehnese dishes that is often used as food at certain events or days. A few days ago, at my sister's house, a thanksgiving event was held with the extended family, we also planned to make a special dish of pliek sauce for the lunch menu of our extended family who helped in the celebration. My sister and I started to prepare some of the materials needed

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Ingredients Used

1. Vegetable Ingredients

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1 bunch of long beans
2 kecombrang bamboo shoots
3 flower kecombrang
1 jackfruit
1 young papaya
100 grams of papaya flowers
7 green eggplants
30 grams of cempoka
20 melinjo leave
100 grams of melinjo fruit
2 bunches of sweet potato leaves
10 green chilies
3 lemongrass stalks
7 lime leaves

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2. Material mashed

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100 grams of pliek u
30 pieces of cayenne pepper
6 cloves of red onion
4 cloves garlic
3 pieces of turmeric size 4 cm
2 tablespoons coriander
3 star anise flower
4 finger ginger

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3. Additional Material

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2 liters of coconut milk
2 teaspoons salt
300 grams of small shrimp

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Cooking Process

STEP 1

Now to start cooking, we started to prepare several types of vegetables and cut them into small pieces from vegetables to remove jackfruit and young papaya.

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STEP 2

Boil the papaya flowers first, with boiling water, boil until the papaya flowers are tender and produce bitter yellow water.

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STEP 3

Then boil the flowers and bamboo shoots kecombrang first, so that the texture is easier to soften and don't forget to season them with salt first.

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STEP 4

Next prepare the spices and then puree with a blender, puree the spices separately with plieek u. Now for pliek u before being mashed, it should be soaked first in warm water for 5 minutes, and then puree and strain.

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STEP 5

Then, we start cooking, to cook the pliek u sauce, because this traditional, food will be more delicious if it is cooked in the traditional way using firewood, so the first step is to boil water in a pan then add it and boil the young jackfruit for about 10 minutes.

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STEP 6

Then enter the spices that have been ground except for the plex u, add and stir the spices evenly, wait and cook the spices for a while.

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STEP 7

Now after it starts to boil again slowly add the small prawns and cook for ± 5 minutes.

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STEP 8

Then enter the vegetables that have a slightly hard texture, such as long beans, cempokak and young melinjo fruit and cook again until half cooked.

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STEP 9

Then add the flowers and bamboo shoots that have been boiled earlier. And stir stir until evenly mixed and the spices quickly seep into the vegetables.

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STEP 10

Enter the pliek u that has been filtered, now when it is filtered here I mix it with a little water to make it easier.

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STEP 11

Then cook again, wait for the pliek u to seep into the vegetables so that the sauce strengthens the taste of the pliek u.

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STEP 12

Next, add the thick coconut milk from 2 coconuts, add everything slowly and wait for it to boil.
When cooking coconut milk, don't forget to stir the sauce so that the coconut milk doesn't break easily in the cooking process.

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STEP 13

Finally, after the coconut milk starts to boil, add all the vegetables and pieces of green chili, salt, onion and lemongrass pieces and lime leaves. Now cook until the coconut milk boils again and the vegetables are perfectly cooked.

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Serving Suggestions

Aceh's typical pliek U sauce is ready for you to enjoy. Now this pliek sauce can be eaten directly or eaten using warm white rice, it is very tasty and healthy with a mixture of various types of vegetables that are used all from nature. Making this dish is so traditional because it uses readily available ingredients that you can easily find in your backyard.

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This is a typical Aceh food recipe with traditional recipes that have been handed down from our ancestors. Hopefully it can be an inspiration for your family's cooking. Greetings from me @nurfay.

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