The Balinese food is very different from our Western cuisine. When you understand once the idea of Balinese food, many recipes are quite simple. But to understand a little of it, we escape for a moment of the day with a normal average family Balinese. At daybreak, a married woman will go to the market to buy all the needs of the day. In her basket, you will find fresh vegetables, roots different spices such as ginger, Laos and kencur to prepare tasty bumbus, some fermented soybean cake and maybe a little pork or chicken or meat maybe dried fish.
Important are the different kinds of peppers and banana leaves for wrapping special meals and of course many shallots and garlic. On a stall she Balinese buy candy rice, called jaja what it has for breakfast with her husband. The Balinese cuisine does not have a normal refrigerator, it is not necessary to store large because the ingredients purchased for quick meals will be used. The woman steamed rice once a day and cooks the meals, which will be levied on most family members twice a day.
The Balinese people do not have a social as well as for their meals in their daily routine, they stand idly somewhere in a corner of their family compound and eat their food in silence. Only during ceremonies family and temple festivals eat food has a social aspect. But not only take meals together, the population of the village - when there is a great festival - even preparing a meal together under rating of elderly men who knows the very complicated preparations for the special ceremony food.
It is regrettable that many tourists never try real Balinese food. What they most often eat in restaurants sometimes sounds as food-borne, for example Nasi Goreng, but it is rice with some vegetables, meat and sweet and salty soy sauce and tomato sauce . But of course the Balinese cuisine has to offer more of these ingredients. And a real Nasi Goreng takes its wonderful taste through the delicious Bumbu. Lucky time you find more and more restaurants with traditional cuisine that is to say, as the famous Bumbu Bali in Tanjung Benoa, Jimbaran in Indonesia and northern tropics, where we offer a traditional cuisine of this class.
So when you learn more about bumbus, you come close to the secrets of Balinese food. These pastas are a special blend of ingredients like shallots, garlic, chilli, candlenuts, lemon grass, salam leaves, ginger, laos, kencur and turmeric and others. Then you learn about the use of coconut in the kitchen Balinese, and the use of peanuts, palm sugar and so forth. A cooking class on Balinese food is quite useful to join. Several ingredients you can find time in the Asia-Shops in the world and you'll be amazed how much you enrich your kitchen with the unique flavor of Balinese food.
