Urap Megana

Urap Megana

Urap Megana, Don’t proclaim you as a vegetarian if you have not tried healthy food below. Actually, Urap Megana is not too different with others common urap that is spicy scraped coconut added to steamed various vegetables. This meal is very pleased to accompany dishes because it gives fresh and lightened images, and easy in cooking. The seasoning is only common spicea and often provided in kitchen. Specially, the primary ingredient is young white jackfruit that is well-done easily when it is boiled.

As long you know, as faithful adherents of Javanese tradition, Urap Megana may not be left as ritual offering for God as like farmers’ deed towards rice harvest. If the crop is plentiful, they hold a ritual event to thank to Sri Goddess. They believe that she can give prosperity. The ritual named wiwit involves farmers’ children in order that they can appreciate this nature which feed them since they are young. Beside urap usually called gudangan, there are other ritual offerings such as chicken ingkung, a comb and mirror, ani-ani (an equipment to grind rice), and completed by traditional snacks. It is not only high in cultural value but also delicious. So, you won’t regret after tasting it. Just try.

Urap Megana Recipe

Ingredients:

• 300 g peeled unripe jackfruit
• 200g kecipir (four-sided bean)
• 150 g carrot
• 50 g young melinjo leaves (bearing edible leaves and seeds)
• 75 g bean sprouts
• 15 petai (beans with pungent odor)
• ¾ part (300 g) unripe coconut, scraped
• 2 laurel likes
• 1 cm galangale

Grinded spice:

• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 lime leaves
• 2 red peppers
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp terasi
• 2 tsp brown sugar

Directions:

1. Chop jackfruit roughly. Slice kecipir into 1 ½ cm sized crossly. Slice carrot into small crossbar sized.
2. Clean melino leaves, petai, and bean sprouts. Cut petai into 2 parts. Scraped coconut.
3. Steam all vegetables separately except petai. Take them out and drain.
4. Mix and stir coconut, grinded spice, laurel likes, and galangale. Steam until it is rare, drain and let them for a while.
5. Serving: Mix all ingredients and spicy scraped coconut in a bowl.