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SUMATRA : Bataks berry in your kitchen

Bataks berry in your kitchen

This berry releases powerful citrus fruits of pink grapefruit and blood orange with intense base notes of crushed mandarin leaves and floral bergamot scents. When cooking, do not heat up too much to keep from bitter accentuation.

The “Ikan mas arsik” or “fish with Arsik sauce” is a typical Bataks dish».

After harvest it is break time next to a house made with woo used as a shelter by the workers of the coffee bush fields. Dish made with local natural ingredients: 2 chili peppers, a green lemon, ginger, curcuma, garlic, Bataks and 2 Toba lake carps.

Dish made with local natural ingredients: 2 chili peppers, a green lemon, ginger, curcuma, garlic, Bataks and 2 Toba lake carps.
Curry made in a wood mortar that has served several times. Berries added at the end.
Put in a cooking pot with fish and water.
Wood fire. 20 minutes later, small aromatized carp pieces on a banana tree leaf.

Ikan Mas arsik is now ready!

Bataks berry symbolizes and marks their cooking. Every woman uses it to perfume any dish, even for breakfast! They are not spicy and bring fresh citrus flavor. I would be happy if European could appropriate this endemic pepper from a new gender. And I measure how this would participate on improving those families everyday lives, in the height of Toba lake. The Batak name : Intir Intir Amazing encounters.

Woman proposing Bataks berries in Samosir market.

In your kitchen

Marinades and fishes

Citrus fruit flavor which goes perfectly with marinades and fishes The perfect match with a delicate white salmon, or a poached fish with garlic stock (in this case, sprinkle just before serving).

White meats

If you want to try with meat, chose a white meat (chicken, veal, filet mignon …) Seasons perfectly braised veal with a meat juice. Avoid dishes with sauce that boil the spice and give it bitter.

Cheeses

For those who are not afraid of the spice and cheese harmony, use it on fresh cheese. Sprinkle a few crushed berries with garlic in goat cheese toasts.

Deserts

Bataks berry will spice citrus fruits salad, strawberry tartare, pineapple carpaccio …

And you, how would you use Bataks berry ?

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