According to practitioners of the culinary Chef Ragin Imam Wibowo, forerunner of stew originated from a menu called hachee, which was once a special meal Dutch nobility. We know, Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch for 3.5 centuries.
During the same cultural influences Windmills Affairs, particularly in the culinary field, penetrated the Indonesian people themselves. Hachee are made from raw meat, butter, beef broth, water, onion, bay leaves, cloves, salt, pepper, and vinegar that attract our ancestors. It then encourages them to be creative to create food that is now known as the stew.
"So, actually since the first of Indonesia's creative. Starting from the desire of our people to taste the food is often eaten by the invaders, it gives birth to stew, "Ragin said in a discussion entitled" stew, hereditary Warming the Heart of the Family Indonesia "in Jakarta, recently.
"Before my class natives and invaders away. They can not eat hachee. They can only see 'oh brown color, it feels like this', then dicarilah spices that can produce the desired color and taste it.
So, you could say stew was born from the imagination of our ancestors, "added Ragin.
Although inspired by hachee, but the stew is not hachee. Two food taste, according to Ragin, very different. Includes ingredients and spices used in the stew, all derived from herbs native to Indonesia.
"The color of chocolate on hachee comes from brown stock, made from cow bones are burned.Hachee also slightly salty flavor. Meanwhile, if derived from soy sauce brown stew sweet, so sweet-savory taste, "says Ragin.
Speaking of the birth of stew no past history independent of Indonesia who never colonized by Europeans due to be tempted in this archipelago of natural products, especially spices. Experts philosophy from the University of Indonesia Lily Tjahjandari explained, once the identity of an aristocrat in Europe established by spices such as cloves and nutmeg.
No wonder, they seem to be racing to get these spices. The desire to obtain spices eventually bring the Europeans, especially Portuguese and Dutch, came to Indonesia, after the previous Indian and Arab traders stopped in the archipelago to buy our natural products.
"Location of Indonesia is in the midst of Middle East trade routes and Asia.Indonesia has long been a target of foreign traders. Traders from India who first came in here. Spices we then sold by Arab traders to India and Europe. Well, they wanted to know, from where the spices come from? Indian merchants only say, from "the land of heaven" because they do not want to get a rival in obtaining spices. This then paved the way for mass expansion of European nations.
They seek and hold the name "the land of heaven" which turned out to exist in Indonesia, "beber Lily. Within a century, 14-16, European nations hit by the phenomenon of "miss the spice". Especially after they know the spices like pepper, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, and candle not only be used as a cooking spice, but also drugs and even perfume.
In 1551 the Portuguese began to master the Malacca, then entered the Netherlands as well. Two nations in Europe who had for years ruled the archipelago. You could say, Indonesia was found because the spices. Plants nutmeg and cloves are found in the Moluccas.
