Tiwul a traditional food that is not so popular today, even people tend to shy to ever admit this traditional food. Even traditional dishes are also rare in the villages, although in the past is the favorite food tiwul rural communities. Because it was at that time was still long rice harvest, so for their snack plant cassava as a food tiwul.
Tiwul as a traditional food is enough to meet nutritional, just because the processing process is quite complicated to make these foods are considered less practical. Compared with the processing of rice for a meal, tiwul need special handling of the starting raw material of cassava.
We can see the processing of the material to be tiwul cassava.
Cassava processing
1. New cassava peeled from the garden
2. Cassava is peeled and cut into thin
3. Dried in the sun about 3 days
4. After dried and ground into tapioca flour mill

2. Processing into tiwul
1. Take tapioca flour as needed and place in the basin
2. Add just enough water approximately 10% of the flour
3. Then stirring by hand until the shape of small grains
4. Flour will form a small grain and brownish yellow.
5. Then the dough is steamed with a special cooking utensil, a pot with a perforated plate.
6. Wait until the water boils and the input mixture on top and then closed.
7. Wait until about 30 minutes and the food is cooked tiwul.

This tiwul food can be served with many variations, there is mixed with sugar, mixed with grated coconut or mixed with vegetables. If you are curious, please try because the food is very good tiwul if we can process it. Also the food is very suitable for the land area planted with rice is not suitable. Good try.

1 comments

  1. marlet // January 18, 2010  

    i like this food.