Rawon Typical Food of East Java Called Black Soup
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Rawon is a typical culinary dish with a black sauce whose taste creates mixed flavors such as sweet, spicy, and slightly sour. The definition of rawon is a traditional dish from Indonesia in the form of meat soup with black sauce as a mixture of special spices containing kluwek. Rawon itself is known as a particular dish from East Java; not only that, the people of Central Java also know this food to the east (Surakarta area).
But regarding the history of rawon, it still needs to be determined where it came from. But many people estimate that rawon is eaten by kings in ancient times, originally from people's food.
Rawon itself has now become a favorite food, much liked by the public. Even rawon is now very well known to foreign countries; abroad, rawon is called black soup. With its characteristic, namely the black sauce, it turns out that the color comes from kluwek.
In general, rawon food consists of meat and black sauce, which is very suitable to be a delicious side dish. But at this time, rawon is served according to individual tastes. For those who like spicy flavors, rawon can also be done with a pungent taste. So it's no wonder many places to eat offer rawon devils with a spicy taste.
Rawon has also been modified in such a way. Now rawon has many forms with names and locations added to them. There are Rawon Surabaya, Rawon Blora, Rawon Knee, Rawon Malang, Rawon Setan, Rawon Ngulung, and many more mentions with appendages using names and locations. Even in Singapore and Malaysia, some sell rawon there.
But it must be remembered that the only thing that will remain the same from rawon food is that you have to use beef (especially for rawon) or oxtail and never replace it with chicken or other seafood.
The characteristic feature of rawon, which is usually served with rice, is the addition of rawon sauce. Like a mate, rawon will never be complete without ingredients such as short bean sprouts, fried onions, and crackers, both prawn crackers and white crackers. The sweet taste of the sauce will make the food famous for this black soup, a very delicious side dish.
The aroma is distinctive because it is spiked with a special seasoning, keluak. Because of this seasoning, the black soup, which is the characteristic of rawon, becomes tasty.