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<\/a><\/p>\nImage credit to Kolak Pisang<\/a>\u00a0at Facebook.com<\/p>\n Hence, to ease the digestive process, the custom is\u00a0to break the fast with a glass of hot, sweet tea, followed by warm and light foods, before having the\u00a0main course usually taken after the Maghrib prayer, or Maghrib and Tarawih prayers.<\/p>\n Ramadan foods and drinks have become treasures to Indonesian culinary tradition\u00a0due\u00a0to\u00a0their\u00a0richness\u00a0in peculiarity and diversity of local cultures. However, most desserts share a similarity in essential ingredients: coconut milk, and coconut sugar or palm sugar.<\/p>\n Image by Robin Kok\/Flickr\/all creative commons<\/p>\n Image by Salib Kayu\/Flickr\/all creative commons<\/p>\n One the favorite desserts to break the fast during Ramadan is Kolak Pisang.\u00a0 It can be served warm, or ice cubes can\u00a0be\u00a0added to serve it cold. The colorful ingredients, banana, cassava, jackfruit, as well as its flavorful taste and the\u00a0distinctive aroma of Pandan leaves, coconut brown sugar, and coconut milk, make Kolak Pisang very\u00a0appetizing.<\/p>\n Images taken from flickr\/all creative commons (clockwise) by 1) BKP Provinsi Banten, 2) Petani Indonesia, 3) Gotri2000, 4) Olce, and 5) Maz Ngibad.<\/p>\n Here is a\u00a0Kolak Pisang recipe with more ingredients<\/span> added to it, which is called Kolak Pisang Lengkap, or a Complete Kolak Pisang in Bahasa Indonesia and English.<\/span><\/p>\n BAHASA INDONESIA<\/p>\n Bahan-bahan<\/strong><\/p>\n Cara membuat<\/strong><\/p>\n ENGLISH<\/p>\n Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n Cooking Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes, there are non-sweet desserts served with it, such as fried stuffed tofu (tahu isi), fried bananas (pisang goreng), fried tempeh (goreng tempe), or friend cassavas (singkong goreng) to temporary hold someone from hunger due to attending a long prayer at the mosque (Sembahyang Magrib and Sembahyang Tarawih).<\/p>\n Breaking the fasting with sweet, delicious desserts has been considered as part of reviving the\u00a0Ramadan tradition. Therefore, food plays a significant role in celebrating Ramadan\u00a0and in ensuring the body withstands the 12 to 16 hours every day for 30 days\u00a0without\u00a0food\u00a0and\u00a0drinks. Image credit to Kolak Pisang\u00a0at Facebook.com Hence, to ease the digestive process, the custom is\u00a0to…<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n Bahasa Indonesia<\/strong><\/td>\n English<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Sahur<\/td>\n -Having meal at dawn to start the fasting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Selamat berpuasa\/Selamat menjalankan ibadah puasa<\/td>\n -Happy Fasting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Selamat Berbuka Puasa<\/td>\n -Happy Fast Breaking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Berbuka puasa<\/td>\n -Break the fast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Takjil (Arabic word-origin)<\/td>\n -Ramadan dessert to break the fast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Berbuka\/Buka puasa bersama<\/td>\n -Break the fast together<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Bulan Suci Ramadhan<\/td>\n -The Holly Month of Ramadan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Ramadhan Karim-<\/td>\n -A generous Ramadan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Imsak<\/td>\n -The time in the morning, just before sunrise when the fasting begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Sembahyang\/Shalat<\/td>\n -Prayer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n –Ngabuburit<\/a><\/td>\n -A tradition to seek amusement and distractions from hunger while waiting for the day’s fast to end at dusk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u00a0–Mudik<\/a><\/td>\n -Also known as Pulang Kampung<\/b> is an\u00a0Indonesian term for the activity where migrants or migrant workers return to their hometown or village during major holidays. Mudik is identical to the annual homecoming tradition that occurs ahead of major religious holidays, especially Lebaran (Eid al-Fitr).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n -Lebaran\/Hari Raya Idul Fitri<\/td>\n -Eid al- Fitr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"