MATARAM - If you at Lombok, you must be taste special food Taliwang chicken. Although, not famous as mbok Berek’s fried chicken or Ny Suharti flavors. But, this menu now grows up as famous Lombok toursim. And now, these menus have been at Bali, Jakarta and Surabaya. Taliwang chicken flavour from Sumbawa king chef at Lombok in era Karangasem palace.

Village chicken used this menu. In the age about four month that newly grow up adult. That’s way flavors chicken so sweet taste without sugar and to tenderize.

Any two choice tastes like grilled or fried chicken with flavors plecing or pelalah. Pelecing have rather so hot. Make from mix big red and little chili, salt, little terasi (condiment made from pounded and fermented shrimp or small fish), kemiri (some peanut flavor). All flavour serve desperate with chicken between grilled chicken and fried chicken. Special taste of flavour is hot chilli.

Pelalah chicken taste makes from this flavour add coconut milk and terasi. Chickens fried have slice, not to hot flavours. Served also beberoq (mix from eggplant and chilli flavours), add many vegetables.

Avoid fried chicken at modern feast. Looking for special taste make first class firewood, example coffee wood or jackfruit wood. Way of cook process not too high fire temperature, frying with coconut oil traditional process.

While chicken grilled process make coconut fibber and just grilled with charcoal. If direct grilled by charcoal that will be bad result grilled and than, result different smell.

Used first class wood in grilled that way to reach nice aroma. Top wood, make long burn and not quick used up and change dust. Whereas take process with modern feast so result different aroma or delicious.

Not complete if eat this chicken without pelecing kangkung (vegetables). Particularly Kangkung Lombok is special vegetable variety compare another region in Indonesia. Pelecing kangkung make from kangkung boiled and mix with sambal tomat (flavours mix chilli, tomato, terasi and salt). Add tauge (bean sprouts), long peanuts and grated coconut. How nice! Chicken, let’s try this menu.

The Pioneer of Taliwang Flavour
Taliwang chicken’s famous because of role-play papuq Maknawiyah (Sasak; grand mother), who seller chicken and rice. She is pioneer serve for blue-collar workers at Cakranegara market at the night.

Firstly papuq Maknawiyah seller at home as long time. On the increase old she move sell rice at home. Nonetheless many customers always buy this rice.(supriyantho khafid)