Jengkol harvest season has arrived. Yes, September to December is the time when farmers harvest & skipper jengkol ria. Indeed, in terms of cost, time of harvest is now less profitable for farmers because jengkol jengkol ample & prices were declining sharply, much lower than the cost jengkol outside the harvest season. After all, who enjoy high prices usually traders in the market. However, farmers still can be grateful that jengkol can bring in money for the relatives.
There's markets jengkolnya high number of sales, the Market Master Caringin Bandung, Bekasi Cibitung Main Market & Main Market Kramat Jati Jakarta. People of West Java, the famous fans of fresh vegetables, the highest level jengkol consumption in Indonesia. However, not only the people of West Java which is identical to jengkol. Several ethnic groups in Indonesia also known jengkol fans, even jengkol actually also liked the people in some countries in Southeast Asia, like Malaysia & Thailand.
The origins of plant jengkol not known with certainty. In Sumatra, West Java & Central Java, jengkol crop widely grown in the garden or yard is simple. In Indonesia, jengkol or jering called by lots of names, ie jengkol (Java), net (Sumatra), jaawi (Lampung), kicaang or jengkol (Sunda), lubi (North Sulawesi), & blandingan (Bali). In scientific classification, plant jengkol included in the phylum Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Fabales, relatives Fabaceae, Mimosoideae subsuku, Pithecellobium genus, & species or Pithecellobium Pithecellobium lobatum jiringa.
Jengkol Plant a tree whose height can reach 10-26 feet. The fruit is a pod-shaped flattened & convoluted. Violet color of elderly men. After the elderly, the shape becomes convex & fruit pods in place that contain seeds increased its size. Each pod can contain 5-7 seeds. Ari seeds are narrow skinned & shiny brown.
Jengkol seeds often eaten fresh or processed with seasoning stews, & known by the Sundanese as ati Maung or "tiger heart". Seeds are soft & tender. Texture is what makes it preferable. The aroma is like a banana, but weaker. However, not so when it is removed from the urine. Besides disemur, jengkol seeds may even be made in to chips as well as chips from melinjo, by way of pounded until flattened, dried, & fried in hot oil.
These seeds, the elderly, is the key part of the plant & most widely used as food ingredients. In addition, it may even be used as a medicine. Jengkol known to prevent diabetes & is a diuretic & lovely for heart health. Jengkol plants are also expected to have the ability to absorb the high groundwater making it useful in conservation of water somewhere.
Food controversial
Despite the shortage of food odors & is thought about slang, do not underestimate jengkol. Besides being rich in vitamin C, protein content was higher than tempeh. Jengkol also necessary for those who are anemic.
Jengkol including controversial food sources. On the hand, jengkol have Pithecolobium lobatum scientific name is often known as "the brother of smell" & may cause poisoning. But on the other hand, jengkol including a favored food of lots of people. Either because of the smell or because there's "mysteries" are still not revealed other, which definitely jengkol often used as doping to improve the saggy appetite. For some people, if it is accompanied jengkol, eating became a spirit until the sweat was streaming down with the swift. young jengkol dicoelkeun in to peanut sauce, was so forgot to cease eating.
In matters of jengkol consumption, the West Java ranks first as a consumer of jengkol highest in Indonesia. Indeed there is no official information on the BPS for this. However, if the referenced information from the market, they will find the numbers fantastic. In day alone, people of West Java could spend 100 tons jengkol! This information is only sourced from location, namely the Main Market Caringin, Bandung. It is conceivable, if the amount jengkol from all markets in West Java are combined, the figure must be much larger.
Jengkol often used as a salad flavoring & appetite enhancer. Usually, used as salad are young jengkol seeds, although some people prefer the elderly jengkol salad with fried first. Not only used as a salad, jengkol even be processed in to various types of products such as food spiced stews jengkol, jengkol rendang, sambal goreng jengkol, until the ointment jengkol. Other foods are crackers jengkol. Perhaps, yet there is only jengkol lunkhead or juice.
The diversity jengkol processing in to food products to be an indication of how strong position in the list of food menu jengkol part of our society. For some people, eating jengkol probably only a "craze" that the intensity of consumption is limited, for example seven times a week. when your appetite has began to decline & in require of "herbal appetite booster". However, for others, it could be, jengkol like opium-though not necessarily every day eating, they feel something is lost if food is not "accompanied" jengkol.
Well, usually, jengkol harvest season is always marked by an increasing number jengkol consumption. If it is so, get prepared us "enjoy" was pleasant aroma that comes from the bathroom, sewer near the house, or even bad breath from our partners.
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