Nasi Puyung : The Most Spicy Dish of Lombok Food

If you are spicy Food lovers, This Lombok food could be your favorite lunch Menu while visiting Lombok island, served with Plecing kangkung or grilled chicken Taliwang "the popular one", could double to your taste while eating rice Puyung ( Nasi Puyung )

Major Rice Puyung taken from the name of the village of origin namely Puyung, Central Lombok, NTB. The Pioneer maker of Nasi Puyung is Papuk Isum from Puyung village. He's been selling Nasi Puyung since the 1980's and today, his business is growing and has been handled by His Son and grandson. Because delicacy, Nasi Puyung increasingly proliferated to the city center as in Mataram, West Lombok.

In Mataram, the original of the tavern comes from Puyung village is Nasi Balap Puyung Inaq Esun. The simple tavern located in front of the Grand Legi Hotel, Jalan Sriwijaya, Mataram and is open every day from 09:00 to 21:00.To keep the authenticity of flavors, the Side Dish of Nasi Puyung directly taken every morning from Kampung Puyung, Central Lombok.

Nasi Puyung not look too special,It is rice that is placed on a banana leaf. However, this is precisely the pleasure Puyung rice lies in side dish consisting of chili, soy fried, shredded and chopped chicken meat and grated coconut. As with other well-known the spicy of Lombok food, Nasi Puyung may come the highest rank of the Spicy.

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Lombok Food : Sate Bulayak

Looking bulayak satay dish, it is very tempting to eat. With the dominance of coconut milk and spicy flavors in each dish is a typical of Lombok Food. As Pelecing Kangkong satay bulayak seller can be found easily in the corners of the city of Mataram.

Named Bulayak satay because satay serve with rice cake made ​​of glutinous rice. This Rice Cake called bulayak. Here is the uniqueness, where satay always combined with bulayak, so it becomes a tempting menu package to taste. Beef, or chicken, and if it is served with the meat stick, It is ready baked / roasted.

Sate greased with Seasoning consists of crushed roasted peanuts that are boiled with coconut milk and a few other spices. The flavor of the spices-like curry. 

If you like spicy food you can add cayenne (rawit)that is cut into small pieces and sprinkle over Satay that have been seasoned.

Pelecing Kangkong - Another Lombok Food that you should taste it

As well as Chicken Taliwang, This Lombok food is a daily menu For Sasak people that we can find in almost every dish any event. This food is an appetizer with a spicy flavor appetite. There is even a proverb that salivation when judging this pelecing kangkung. Woow!

For the people of Lombok, pelecing is a diet for generations since the time of  ancestors. It is not surprising that in the sidewalks, there are food stall (warung ) selling pelecing  to serve as side dishes before lunch and dinner. Similarly, in small stalls, food stalls or restaurants and luxury hotels in Lombok it can certainly be obtained Kangkong pelecing. 

Pelecing is lombok food that simple but has a special taste. It is not difficult to make it, the main ingredient of Pelecing is kangkong, but remember that not just any kangkong. Used to be Lombok kangkon, because it crisp and savory.

The Planting of Lombok kangkung usually in a land flowing waters such as rivers and ponds so that the circulation of water for growing kangkung becomes more fertile. as well as the soil of Lombok island so that kangkung is usually fresher, greener and bigger trunk than the other.

To make Pelecing kangkung is so easy frist boil Kangkong and then split apart,add bean sprouts, and peanuts. As a complement, add sambal nyiuh. seasoning by Pelecing sauce made ​​from roasted shrimp paste, chillies, tomatoes, a little salt and lemon juice watered.

To taste Pelecing Kangkung, you should be ready with a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his face because the cuisine is quite spicy, but once will enjoy memorable time.

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Taliwang Chicken - Taste The Spacy Lombok Food

Spicy, probably that's the first impression when you taste Ayam Bakar Taliwang ( Grilled Chicken Taliwang ) The traditional dishes Of Lombok island. Imaging could be due to word of Lombok ( Chilli ) itself is identical to the spicy flavor. Lombok foods are already widely known, and spicy taste is quite prominent among them, one of the famous is Taliwang chicken, either grilled chicken or fried chicken.

Taliwang chicken flavor itself is relatively similar to chicken in general, only slightly smaller. But, later known Taliwang spicy chicken as sauce flavored with chicken, which in terms of some ethnic Sasak (Lombok northern) 'Manuk Pelalah'.

Manuk Pelalah is grilled or fried chicken spiced with a hundred chillis that are large and small and then fried with coconut milk so that the most prominent flavor is spicy. For those who are not as resistant to spicy foods, can also be ordered with a spicy levels tailor-made for tasting fried chicken or grilled chicken.

Many say, Taliwang chicken food comes from the name of the village (Karang) on Lombok Island Namely KARANG TALIWANG located in CakraNegara, Mataram. So, the name of this Lombok Food, Taliwang not from the West Sumbawa. People who popularized the special Lombok grilled chicken dishes  is Haji Murad and his wife, Salmah, from Karang Taliwang. Haji Murrad the effort could now be developed by his descendants and other Taliwang citizen.