Keripik sanjai or keripik sanjay (
Jawi: كاروڤواق سنجاي;
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: ''karupuak sanjai'') is a
Minangkabau Minangkabau may refer to:
* Minangkabau culture, culture of the Minangkabau people
* Minangkabau Culture Documentation and Information Center
* Minangkabau Express, an airport rail link service serving Minangkabau International Airport (''see belo ...
cassava
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kripik
''Kripik'' or ''keripik'' are Indonesian chips or crisps, bite-size snack crackers that can be savoury or sweet. They are made from various dried fruits, tubers, vegetables, and fish that have undergone a deep frying process in hot vegetable o ...
or chips from
Bukittinggi
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city in
West Sumatra
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,
Indonesia
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.
It made from thinly sliced
cassava
''Manihot esculenta'', commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated ...
deep fried in ample of
coconut oil until crispy. It is commonly called ''keripik singkong'' in Indonesia, but this Minang version is probably the most popular of ''keripik singkong'' in Indonesia. And yet, the sweet, hot and spicy ''keripik sanjai balado'' is also the most famous variant of ''keripik sanjai''.
There are three types of kripik sanjai:
# ''Keripik sanjai tawar'' is a plain variant that only add salt for flavour
# ''Keripik sanjai saka'' is sweet tasting variant coated with
palm sugar.
# ''Keripik sanjai balado'', coated with ''
balado bumbu
Bumbu is a municipality (''Communes of Kinshasa, commune'') in the Funa (district), Funa district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The town is in the hilled southern portion of Kinshasa and settlement there ...
'' made from the mixture of ground palm sugar and red
chili pepper
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paste, it is the most famous variant.
See also
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Balado
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Banana chips
Banana chips (sometimes called banana crisps) are deep-fried or dried, generally crispy slices of bananas. They are usually made from firmer, starchier banana varieties (" cooking bananas" or plantains) like the Saba and Nendran cultivars. T ...
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Potato chips
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List of deep fried foods
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References
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