Turmeric for Our Foods and Health

TURMERIC FOR FOODS AND HEALTH 

TURMERIC is herb which could add unique taste in Indonesian food. It could reduce rancidity whenever we process fishes as our dishes. Turmeric gives our food color and it’s rich of benefits.

Turmeric or in Indonesian we call it as “Kunyit” known as a herb for our dish. But the benefits may across our kitchen room. It can be used as cosmetic, textile and medicine ingredients. It’s also recognized as natural food coloring for cheese, mustard and margarine.

Turmeric is a plant root, and we can recognize easily by looking at its red/orange color. This rooted stem may become powder ingredient or it can also be mixed and mashed with another ingredients in Indonesian food. Most of Javanese foods are using turmeric like gulai, Javanese curry, opor or another basic yellow ingredients.

Kunyit or Turmeric is not only used in the dishes, but has been used as a traditional medicine since along time ago. “Jamu” is one of the example. “Jamu” is traditional medicine, and Jamu has become health beverage now days. Its basic ingredient is turmeric and another herbal plants.

Beside as a basic food ingredients, turmeric also has many benefits and useful to relieve various complaints and diseases. The benefits specially come from its curcumin content. Curcumin is a substance which has a play role in property, flavor and color.

There are several turmeric benefits like has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidants and it could gives protection toward heart attack and stroke since it could reduce the formation of blood clots, protect our liver and help fat digestion by increasing bile production.

About Cooking

 MY SPECIAL MOMENT "COOKING TIME"

Cooking is a very special moment for me. Choosing the ingredients in the market is always challenging. In my hometown, no food without chilies. Every foods are hot hot hot there!  When I moved to Yogyakarta to take a collage, it was very difficult to suit my mouth with Yogyakarta foods which generally are dominated with sweet taste. May be it’s because I used to eat spicy foods. Whereas Yogyakarta is very famous with their sweet taste foods like gudeg, bacem, semur, etc.

 

For me, cooking is not just as a hobby, but more than that, cooking is my daily routine activities. Usually, I cook some foods for my family in the evening after back from my office. But the foods I made is just simple foods, easy to make and practical. Well, there will be a better time when I spend almost a day in my kitchen. In the weekend or in my day off, it’s my special kitchen time. I could make some  complicated cake or foods in my holiday like bread, snack, or anything about new recipes.

 

Do not cook with anger, grudge or another bad feeling, you won’t get the best result if you feel unhappy in your kitchen. Indirectly, our foods will be influenced and will not be appropriate with what we want to make, for example, our foods are salinity, or treacly . I think, we should cook happily, calm, and enjoy it with our heart. Let’s enjoy our kitchen activities, cooking time ^^ so our foods will be hmmmm yummy.

 

In this blog, I only try to share what I know about my hobby and my favorite activities. Okey, let’s make something new !