TINUTUAN FROM MANADO

Tinutuan or Manado porridge is a typical Indonesian food from Manado, North Sulawesi. Some say tinutuan is the typical food of Minahasa, North Sulawesi. Tinutuan is a mixture of various vegetables, do not contain meat, so that the food could be a food interaction between groups of people in Manado. Tinutuan usually served for breakfast along with a variety of complementary cuisine.

Tinutuan word of unknown origin. Since when tinutuan a typical food Manado city is unknown. Some say tinutuan began bustling trading in several places in the city of Manado corner since 1970. Some say since 1981.

Tinutuan used to be the motto of the city of Manado since Jimmy Rimba Rogi leadership of mayor and deputy mayor Abdi Wijaya Buchari 2005-2010 period, replacing the previous motto Manado City Wise Man.

Manado City Government through the local Tourism Office in 2004 (there is also a saying in mid-2005) make the area Wakeke, Wenang District, City of Manado as a typical tourist sites Tinutuan food.

Based on the story by word of mouth or it could be considered groundless story, I had heard how the history of the creation of Manado porridge (tinutuan).

From the stories the old people, in the Dutch colonial era, the economic conditions of the population is very low, so they are difficult to meet the food needs of the family.

Economic considerations and finally with a little extra element of creativity, the population of that era finally began to utilize food they can find in the yard or in the garden, such as pumpkin, sweet potato, papaya, kale, corn, gedi and by mixing it with a little rice, they cook all the food together. And created Manado porridge or that we are familiar with tinutuan, whose contents varied vegetables and porridge.

Regardless of the truth of the story of this mouth, the one thing that I think is useful is how easy we make a healthy dish that is simple yet full of nutrition.

Materials Tinutuan / Manado Porridge

Tinutuan making simple ingredients. Tinutuan is a mixture of various vegetables that pumpkin is also called sambiki, rice, cassava, spinach, kale, leaf gedi, corn, basil.

Presentation

Tinutuan is usually served for breakfast. Tinutuan be served with salted fish and a variety of complementary dishes as seen in the picture.

Presentation in Manado

Tinutuan, in Manado, served with cakes nike, sambal roa (roa rica, Dabu-Dabu roa), fufu tuna or smoked tuna, corn fritters. Tinutuan can also be served with noodles or mixed with red bean soup called brenebon.

Tinutuan served with noodles called midal, where the suffix is ​​derived from the word dal which is another name for pedaal tinutuan in South Minahasa region which is a region subetnis Tountemboan in Minahasa.

Tinutuan can also be mixed with red bean soup called brenebon. Tinutuan mixed with brenebon is sometimes also added tetelan cow, which supposedly credible people who eat it can attract "wheel" (wagon). In the Christian community in Manado, which is mixed with brenebon tinutuan can also special is served with added pork leg, usually on a special occasion like a show that eating spilled on thanksgiving day in Manado.