Hearing the word honje, many people may be wrinkling his brow. Especially among the young. Honje is a kind of sour fruit taste and is only used for seasoning ingredients. In fact, in the city of Tasikmalaya, fruit honje a mainstay ingredient for making salad seasoning ulek.
See, on the road there are a number of sellers Kalektoran ulek salad with fruit honje mainstay raw material. The oldest one is the salad ulek ICAR Bi (81), salad business started in the 70s and now continued by Tuti (45) and Dedin (42), son of Bi ICAR. Business hereditary salad is even already have a name until Bandung, Jakarta, and surrounding areas.
Area Road Kalektoran indeed lately become one of the culinary center of the City of Tasikmalaya. There was porridge and selling tutug oncom Jenal. However, the most popular are the salad ulek Bi ICAR. In addition there are two more, namely Bi Iyoh salad and Ma Cicih. Taste is similar, but each has its own customers.
Strength salad ulek Bi ICAR is located on seasonings blend that has a distinctive taste. Materials other mainstay is the fruit flavor does not honje, then combined with brown sugar, salt, cengek, and bananas rock that contains black seeds. This spice tastes fresh.
Tuti and Dedin seem adept at making seasoning. Initially, put some fruit honje, then pulverized in a mortar-stone ulek diameter about 40 cm to slightly destroyed. Followed bananas and pulverized stone again. Afterwards, put the sugar and salt. "The process of making it easy. What is difficult is to measure each ingredient. Moreover, the number of orders is different but the taste should not be changed," said Tuti.
For fruit there is nothing special, besides the conditions selected are still fresh. Among other water guava, sweet potato, yam, half-ripe mango, kedondong, and pineapple. All sliced fruit about the size of a coin. Spices and fruit slices then stir-stir until evenly distributed. After it is served in a dish and spiced peanut powder to taste.
"Every week I like taking the time to enjoy a meal of this salad. It's intriguing," says Yaya (25), an aspiring lawyer who is now an apprentice in a lawyer's office in the region Mangkubumi.
Rudi (25), an employee of a mobile operator, even admitted that he had subscribed to salad. Especially if there are relatives from out of town, confirmed booking until ten Pincuk salad brought to the house. "They really liked this salad. Each came to Tasikmalaya, always requested message salad," he said.
Tuti said, for visitors who want another dish, also provided a variety of compote, Kupat know, as well as mature and Karedok pecel. "Serving in addition to salad ulek is deliberately maintained by other than preferred also since the beginning of this effort stood, confectionary was already there. Even the earliest is Kupat know. So it turns out there are maintained and are buying," he said.
Journalists Reports Tribun Jabar,Firman Suryaman
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