Pletok beer is a beverage typical of Jakarta. Although it contains the word beer, but usually pletok nonalcoholic beer. Pletok beer made from the juice of ginger, sugar, basil flower essence and roots. When we drink beer pletok, first tasted spicy, but the next warm body will feel the effect of the herb contained in it. Tthe idea of making pletok beer ( javanese colled : bir Pletok) begins
When the Dutch period, there were people joined to drinking beer together with the Netherlands. Meanwhile, the Betawi people who are all Muslims know if the beer was intoxicating, and haraam. Since then, the Betawi initiative to make beer, but it can be healthy. The material consists of a mixture of several spices, ginger, fragrant pandan leaves, and lemongrass. So that the color is more attractive, the Betawi people using additional wooden cup, which will give the red color when brewed with hot water.
HOW TO MAKE THE PLETOK BEER :
A. The Ingredients of pletok Beer :
2 Liters of Water
350 grams of ginger, crushed / mashed
6 eggs Cloves
5 cm Cinnamon
3 seeds Cardamom
5 stalks lemongrass / sere, crushed / mashed
25 gr Wood secang
1/2 grains of nutmeg, crushed / mashed
500 gr sugar
Salt to taste
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B. Step of to make pletok beer , the special drink from Betawi that Efficacious Warm and Healthy:
1. Mix the water and sugar to the pan.
2. Add the ginger, then boil using medium heat until boiling and the sugar has dissolved completely.
3. Add sugar and ginger into a solution of the wooden cup, stir until blended.
4. Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg crushed.
5. Enter the crushed stalks lemongrass, continue cooking over low heat until rempahnya aroma wafted out, this process
will takes approximately 1 hour.
6. If it is enough lift, strain and serve in cold weather.
Notes and Tips in Making Beer pletok Khas Betawi:
Let stand overnight pletok Beer stew, to obtain a sharper aroma of spices, and then filtered.
Choose sugar white sand clean to produce a good pletok Beer.
Now ready to enjoy pletok beer without having drunk yet healthy? Good luck and be creative.