30 Days of Indonesia #6 – Es Blewah

Good morning 🌻

Back to school today for us here in BC, Canada. We had long weekend as it was Victoria Day and I spent my time watching the Royal Wedding, Billboard Awards, and Wakanda Forever 😁 My husband on the other hand, got sunburnt as he cleaned the gravels off the lawn with his power broom, cut the grasses on front and back yard, and helped with house chores. SCORED 🤣 Wife of the year here 🤣 I napped a lot too 💃💃💃💃

Too bad the boys bickered too much though 🙈🙉🙊 Silly boys.

Yesterday I did not make anything fancy. It was darn hot to turn on the oven, the stove, the TV, the hairdrier. Everything heat up the house boo-hoo. So I prepared cold drink instead desserts.

This one is called Es Blewah.

You can either use cantaloupe or honeydew. It’s very refreshing. You can have additional goodies in it, or just the fruit and the syrup. Some would add young coconut meat, grass jelly, etc., but I added basil seeds in mine 😊

ingredients

• 1 cantaloupe
• 1 c sugar
• 3 c water
• 1 screw pine leaf, knotted
• 1 tbsp basil seeds (you might be able to subs them with chia seeds, see note)
• crashed ice/ice cubes

how to

• shred cantaloupe meat or slice them long and thinly
• bring sugar, water, and screw pine to boil for 5 minutes, set aside to cool
• once syrup is cooled, drop and stir 1 tbsp basil seeds, let bloom
• mix cantaloupe and syrup
• serve chilled/with ice cubes
• Note: basil seeds are easily blooming, within seconds, unlike chia seeds, and they dont clump

Pagi teman (malam kalian)

Kemarin panas banget disini, jadi males mau ke dapur, oleh karena itu, semalam aku cuman buat es blewah, biar bikin adem dikit 😁

Dulu di Kalimantan, kami tinggal dekat hutan dan tetangga kami petani blewah. Kalau sudah panen, kami kadang ketiban rejeki. Kakak perempuanku suka bikin es blewah, masa kami kecil2 dulu

Kemarin pas chatting sama adik dan nanya gimana dulu kalau kita bikin es blewah, sepertinya berbeda dengan resep2 yang ada di internet, adik ga ingat masa kecil euy, soalnya sekarang kalau bikin, campur sirup botolan, biar ga repot 😅

Ya udah deh, mengarang indah ini hasilnya

Kata anakku yang sulung, “ini enak, Ma, mirip es Meksiko tempo hari” 🤣 Iya aku pernah posting resep es Meksiko beberapa bulan yang lalu d Steemit. Masih ingat dia ternyata 🤣

Jadiiiii ntah ini es blewah Indo ntah Meksiko, yang penting segaaaaar 😉

bahan2

• 1 melon kuning
• 1 gelas gula
• 3 gelas air
• 1 ikat pandan
• 1 sdm biji selasih
• es batu

cara membuat

• melon di kerok, sisihkan
• masak air, gula, pandan hingga mendidih, 5 menit, dinginkan suhu ruangan
• masukkan selasih di air gula, aduk biar mengembang
• campurkan air sirup dan melon
• sajikan dingin atau dengan es batu

Print Recipe

Es Blewah

Ingredients

• 1 melon kuning
• 1 gelas gula
• 3 gelas air
• 1 ikat pandan
• 1 sdm biji selasih
• es batu

Instructions

• melon di kerok, sisihkan
• masak air, gula, pandan hingga mendidih, 5 menit, dinginkan suhu ruangan
• masukkan selasih di air gula, aduk biar mengembang
• campurkan air sirup dan melon
• sajikan dingin atau dengan es batu