Yeah You, welcome back to my blog
Today as
usual, I will tell you about my activities and this time it was very different as
usual because me and my friends gonna made rhombus from pandanus leaves. This
is the first time we make it, for beginners like me it is very
difficult because it requires patience and very high concentration in my
opinion, but after you succeed in doing it, there will be a sense of
wanting to make the rhombus continuously.
Rhombus (Ketupat
or kupat) is a South East Asian maritime based rice dish wrapped in a
wrap made of woven leaves of young coconut (janur), or sometimes from
other palm leaves. Ketupat is most commonly found
during the Eid celebrations until the next 5 days when Muslims celebrate
the end of the fasting month.
Typical
foods that use ketupat include kupat tofu (Sundanese), kupat
kandangan (Banjar), Grabag (regency of Magelang), kupat glabet (Kota
Tegal), coto makassar (from Makassar, ketupat called katupa), lotek, and
gado-gado which can be served with ketupat or lontong. Ketupat can also be served to accompany satai, although lontong is more common.
First
of all, make the frame burnt first, that is the pandanus wrap 3
times in the hand, each of which has the opposite direction as shown
above. The pandan leaves which have the first right side of the winding enter into the first coil on the left then alternate. Here we have to be details and carefully not to make the plaited ketupat become irregular.
The frame
has been made, then the tip of the pandanus leaves is inserted between
the leaves of the ketupat until it becomes the perfect plait of frame
until each end meets on each side.
Then trim
it with no intermediaries or interrupts so that when it is filled the
rice does not fall like in the picture above, to make adjusting the size
of the diamond depending on the width of the leaves we use the wider
the leaves the greater the ketupat results and vice versa.
That is my activity this time in making Ketupat as a craft and if you want to ask just comment below about this Rhombus (ketupat).
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