Serves 2 I love Manado because I like their cooking a lot. When my colleagues and I had to go to Manado for a big event, we went out pigging out here and there. We stop by a stall at the edge of the sea and ordered grilled snapper head in dabu dabu relish. Dabu-dabu…
Serves 4 Need some healthy breakfast ideas? These Manado Congee are healthy, packed with assorted vegetables, rice and coconut milk. The original name is ‘tinutuan’. Manadoness like to eat this with a relish similar to ‘sambal terasi’ with additional small fishes. It’s a popular food for toddler also as it is sweet and quite savory.…
Serves 2 The Indonesian name of this Manado dish is ‘Ayam rica-rica’, I love it so much. It is spicy, sour, sweet and fragrant and it goes well with hot warm rice. It’s a very common dish loved by Indonesia from all ethnic and thus you can find it in most lunch stalls with variation…
Serves 2 Want to add some heat in this cold weather? Some Manado spices will do the trick. As I have told you in my earlier post that I love Manado food so much that I just can’t control myself if I go to Manado stalls for lunch. I will not stop until I get…
Serves 3 There is so many recipes that we can make with red bean. It makes delicious additional to soup but also we can transform it to various kinds of desserts and sweets. This is another recipe from Manado-Sulawesi. Red Bean transformed to ice desserts. As it is influenced by Dutch cooking, the red bean…
Serves 2 I love Manado-Sulawesi food very much. The taste is like a fusion of Chinese main ingredients such as garlic and ginger with Thai main spices, birds eye chili, kefir lime juice, galangel etc. There was a delicious restaurant not far from my house, so I can have lunch there when I want to. Unfortunately it…
Serves 2 Rica-rica shrimps, this chili shrimps are very delicious with warm fragant rice. We have this often at home and my mother as usually would dump heaps of sugar to make the chili sweet. I prefer not to sweet, the Manado style where the sweetness just comes from the onions. This is a menu…
Serves 3 The Dutch cuisine really have a deep impact in Manado cuisine. One of the soup popular in Manado is bruine bonen soup. This soup can be found as weekly menus in some Indonesian families. My mother likes to serve it too. Sometimes the soup can get a little sour if you use garlic…
Makes 1 bowl Mackarel Pike fish is in season, in Japan we call it sanma (サンマ / 秋刀魚. The fish is usually served grilled or fried with dashi sauce. I wanted to make it into another recipe, a recipe that me and my husband are mad about…”abon Cakalang/tuna floss” well in this case Mackarel Pike…
Serves 4 The first time that I taste this fruit salad is when my relatives came to stay over on holidays for a couple of weeks. At one point they went to the supermarket with my mom and brought all of the ingredients to make some kind of fruit salad. They say that they were…
Mama Miyuki Easy Pantsy 