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Arabic Cuisine


Kebabs (Kebap, kabab, kebob, kabob, kibob, kebhav, or kephav) is a term for a variety of meat dishes roasted / grilled stabbed puncture or wear an iron rod. This dish is common in Mediterranean cuisine, cuisine Caucasus, Central Asian cuisine, South Asian cuisine, and dishes some African countries.

Commonly used for meat kebab is lamb and beef, or sometimes mutton, chicken, fish, or shellfish. Kebab of pork dish known in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, and the state of Goa in India.

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French Cuisine


The word ratatouille comes from touiller which means it is "throwing food". Ratatouille comes from Nice and the surrounding area. This food was originally a food of poor farmers who cooked in the summer with summer vegetables. Ratatouille does not contain the original eggplant (which is not the summer vegetables are like other vegetables). It was a courgette or zucchini (like cucumber), tomato, red and green peppers, onions and garlic. Often it is now known ratatouille adds eggplant.

Ratatouille French served this way alone or with rice, potatoes or bread. Usually served as a lunch meal with bread. Usually also accompanied by a dish of potatoes as a complement. Usually only served as food side alone. All contents of this pan-fried food use olive oil.

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Italian Cuisine (2)


Pasta is a processed food that is used in Italian cuisine, made ​​from a mixture of flour, water, eggs, and salt to form a dough that can be formed into a variety of sizes and shapes. Pasta made ​​various dishes after cooking by boiling. In Indonesia, a popular type of pasta such as spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna.

In English, pasta is a term for various types of cuisine with one of the main ingredients of flavored pastas and sauces. Pasta comes from the Italian "pasta alimentare" which means the food dough. In broad terms, "paste" can mean all the dough like bread dough, pastry, or cake. In Italian, which means the pasta foods such as noodles called pastasciutta.

Pasta made ​​from semolina flour mill which is a result of durum wheat seeds mixed eggs so little bright yellow, and when cooked properly will result in slightly chewy texture. American-made pasta is often made from a mixture of flour and semolina flour Farina, so as to have a softer texture to serve dishes such as casseroles.

Outside their home country in Italy, pasta is usually sold in the packaging in dry form. Dry pasta manufactured using extrusion machinery that drives out the pasta dough through the sieve holes. Forms a paste obtained by grinding the other pasta dough into a sheet which is then cut into pieces or printed.

Home-made fresh pasta and the restaurant was formed by hand just before boiling pasta. Fresh pasta requires a short cooking time, but not long-lasting fresh pasta stored because it has a high water content. Durable dry pasta can be stored up to 3 years or more because it has a water content as much as 10%. Pasta is cooked and heated with a microwave oven residence also frequently found in the frozen food section of supermarkets.

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Italian Cuisine (1)


Pizza [pi ː tsə] is a kind of round bread, baked in the oven flat and normally covered with tomato sauce and cheese with additional food to choose from. Used are usually mozzarella cheese or "pizza cheese".

Other types of materials can also be placed on a pizza, usually meats and sauces, such as salami and pepperoni, ham, bacon, fruits like pineapple and olives, vegetables such as chillies and peppers, and onions, mushrooms and others.

Regular sandwich bread is made as usual, but could be given extra flavor with butter, garlic, herbs, or sesame. Pizza is usually eaten while hot (usually for lunch and dinner), but some are served cold, usually eaten for breakfast or a picnic.

Pizza is usually eaten at the restaurant, purchased in the wholesale markets or supermarkets, and can also be ordered by phone or via a web to be delivered, hot and ready to eat at home.

The word "pizza" is taken from Italian pizza (International Phonetic Alphabet / International phonetic Alphabet, IPA: [pi ː tsə]), it usually means "pies, cakes, tarts". Many mistakenly think that the pizza comes from the Italian word meaning Phai (pie).

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Pempek is Indonesian Cuisine (3)


Pempek or Empek-empek is typical Palembang food made ​​from fish and sago. Actually it is difficult to say that pempek center is because almost all of Palembang in South Sumatra region producing it.

The presentation was accompanied by a sauce pempek black brownish-called vinegar or cuko (Palembang language). Cuko made ​​from boiled water, then add brown sugar, shrimp, dried shrimp and crushed chili, garlic, and salt. To the indigenous population of Palembang, cuko than once made ​​spicy to increase appetite. But as the influx of migrants from outside the island of Sumatra is now commonly found cuko with a sweet taste for those who do not like spicy. Cuko can protect teeth from caries (damage to enamel and dentin). Because in one liter of solution gravy pempek there is usually 9-13 ppm fluoride. a complement to the typical taste of this meal is a slice of fresh cucumber dice and yellow noodles.

Type pempek is the famous "pempek submarine", ie chicken wrapped in egg batter and fried in oil pempek heat. There are others such as pempek lenjer, pempek round (or known by the name "ada'an"), pempek fish skin, pempek pistel (young papaya slices content that has been spiced stew), pempek small eggs, and pempek curly.

Pempek could very easily be found throughout the city of Palembang. Pempek sold everywhere in Palembang, one selling at the restaurant, there's a side of the road, and there is also a bear. Canteens in all schools / workplace / campus would anyone sell pempek. In the 1980s, sellers usually carry a basket pempek full pempek while walking around the city of Palembang hawking food.

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