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Saturday, January 29, 2011

60th Story: Karedok Leunca - Indonesian Culinary

The ingredients for this culinary is red chili and rawit chili, terasi (dried shrimp paste), kemangi (lemon basil) leaves, salt, and tomato

This is one of Indonesian culinary, Karedok Leunca Its Sudanese culinary. The taste it’s so spicy (red chili added) and also its bitter (cause the Leunca), for me its so good, delicious...Usually sundanese eat karedok leunca with rice, krupuk, tempe, and salty fish (ikan asin).

Leunca/Solanum nigrum or also known as European Black Nightshade has many efficacies like, Analgesic, Anti Inflammatory and Antibacterial.

This is several culinary usages in many countries:

In India, the berries are casually grown and eaten; but not cultivated for commercial use.

In Ethiopia, the ripe berries are picked and eaten by children in normal times, they cook the leaves in salty water and consumed like any other vegetable.

In South Africa, the very ripe and hand-selected fruit is cooked into a beautiful but quite runny purple jam

In Greece the leaves are one of the ingredients included in the salad of boiled greens known as horta.


(source:wikipedia)