Some Indonesian peeps are quite familiar with this dish: macaroni schotel. Some people said its kinda Dutch/European food that is popular in Indonesia.
To tell you the truth, Dutch people are not familiar with Macaronie Schotel. Neither are the Italians (my friend Tina, from Italy, will kill me if she found out that I made macaroni into somekind of pie or savoury cake or what we call 'schotel'). Schotel is a Dutch word for dish or platter. Thus it is not food. I reckon the name of this food is created because it is a mix of macaroni, milk, cheese, and ham, and put in a 'schotel'.
Apart from the name, the taste of this dish is excellent, delicious, mammamiaaa!
So, last weekend, I had my Sunday off (honestly, I skipped church, too, because I was so exhausted). Thus, I decided to ask my mom how to make a macaroni schotel. Why my mom?
My mom's family is known as the great chef. My grandma could cook very well; my uncle, too. My grandma, my uncle and my mom even had (and for my uncle's case, has) a little catering business. The recipe of macaroni schotel was actully from my grandma. My mom got it from her, and she's been making macaroni schotel ever since she got the recipe. Everyone loves my mom's macaroni schotel! Including me!
And because I wanted to inherit that magic recipe, too, I asked my mom to email the recipe to me. So, after encrypting the recipe (so now you will not able to trace or find the recipe :P), I made it.
And here it is!
It was verryyyy tasty! There was a slight taste missing, which was the taste of the ham. My mom normally used pork ham, but we wanted to go halal (I never cook pork stuff at home, hardly eat it, and also because the nearest store that sold ham on Sunday that was open, was an islamic store :) ). But, it was suppeeee tasty! And makannya teteeep pake sambal ABC
To tell you the truth, Dutch people are not familiar with Macaronie Schotel. Neither are the Italians (my friend Tina, from Italy, will kill me if she found out that I made macaroni into somekind of pie or savoury cake or what we call 'schotel'). Schotel is a Dutch word for dish or platter. Thus it is not food. I reckon the name of this food is created because it is a mix of macaroni, milk, cheese, and ham, and put in a 'schotel'.
Apart from the name, the taste of this dish is excellent, delicious, mammamiaaa!
So, last weekend, I had my Sunday off (honestly, I skipped church, too, because I was so exhausted). Thus, I decided to ask my mom how to make a macaroni schotel. Why my mom?
My mom's family is known as the great chef. My grandma could cook very well; my uncle, too. My grandma, my uncle and my mom even had (and for my uncle's case, has) a little catering business. The recipe of macaroni schotel was actully from my grandma. My mom got it from her, and she's been making macaroni schotel ever since she got the recipe. Everyone loves my mom's macaroni schotel! Including me!
And because I wanted to inherit that magic recipe, too, I asked my mom to email the recipe to me. So, after encrypting the recipe (so now you will not able to trace or find the recipe :P), I made it.
And here it is!
It was verryyyy tasty! There was a slight taste missing, which was the taste of the ham. My mom normally used pork ham, but we wanted to go halal (I never cook pork stuff at home, hardly eat it, and also because the nearest store that sold ham on Sunday that was open, was an islamic store :) ). But, it was suppeeee tasty! And makannya teteeep pake sambal ABC
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My own theory is this: macaronischotel was a Dutch dish popular around the beginning of the 20th century. It traveled to Indonesia by migrants from Holland and became a popular dish among colonial Dutch, eurasians and others who were influenced by Dutch culture.
The dish is now forgotten in Holland, or rather almost, because it is still popular by Eurasians there (Belanda Indo).