Traditional Indonesian cuisine Week 3!

It's already our third week into our cultural classes and we made another delicious meal today: Nasi Goreng! (Fried Rice Jawa) It was pretty time consuming and took a lot of work especially when you can't use a blender or food processor, but it was definitely a great learning experience. We used a mortar and pestle to blend all of the spices together which was a great way to blend all of the flavors we were using for the rice. We also made rice cakes by steaming them and coloring different portions so we could have multiple layers of colors for the cakes. We also designed our plates beautifully like you would do at a restaurant and made tomato swans. I'm excited for week 4!