This document summarizes three traditional foods of Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia: 1) Tinutuan is a vegetable and fish porridge that is a typical breakfast food. Its origins are unknown but it has been promoted as a tourist attraction since the 2000s. 2) Cakalang fufu is smoked and dried skipjack tuna that is often given as a souvenir. The tuna is cured for 4-8 hours until dry and red. It can last up to a month at room temperature. 3) Klappertaart is a coconut cake with European influences from the Dutch colonial era. It can be a solid cake baked in a pan or a

1. Minahasan Traditional Food
A. Tinutuan
Tinutuan / Manado porridge is a typical Indonesian food from Manado, North
Sulawesi or Minahasa. Tinutuan is a mixture of various kinds of vegetables, but
there is also often add tuna.
Tinutuan usually served for breakfast.
History of Tinutuan:
Tinutuan word of unknown origin, since when tinutuan be typical food Manado is
also not clearly known. Some say began bustling trading since 1970, but some are
saying since 1981.
Tinutuan used the motto of the city of Manado since the leadership of Mayor
Jimmy Rimba Rogi 2005-2010. Replaces the previous motto of the city of
Manado "Wise Man".
Manado city government through the local tourism office in 2004 to make the
region as a tourist destination Wakeke tinutuan.
Ingredients to make Tinutuan:
- Pumpkin - Kale
- Rice - Leaves Gedi
- Cassava - Corn
- Spinach - Basil
Tinutuan usually served with anchovies, meatball nike, roa fish sauce, tuna / tuna
smoked, fried tofu, and corn fritters.
Tinutuan can also be served with noodles.
B. Cakalang Fufu
Skipjack tuna dish fufu is processed in the season, in the smoke, and clamped
with a framework of bamboo.
This meal is a typical dish of Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Process Cakalang Fufu:
After the tuna (tuna) cleaned with scales and discarded offal, meat tuna cut
into two and clipped by a bamboo frame brace that had been prepared
beforehand. Fish meat is mixed with salt and seasonings wrapped soda. Then
tuna undergo the process of curing the heat of the fire and smoke. Heat must
be evenly until meat tuna was overcooked and dry. This process spent 4 hours to
2 hours for curing and cooling.
This process goes on until the meat tuna changes color to red with a bit of a
soft and dry texture.

2. If processed properly, skipjack fufu can withstand stored in room temperature
for 1 month. Thus it can be distributed throughout Indonesia as a food
processed seafood. In North Sulawesi skipjack fufu is a favorite dish and is
often presented as a souvenir for tourists visiting Manado. Although this dish is
famous throughout eastern Indonesia, the location of production is the main
fishing port town, Bitung, North Sulawesi.
Skipjack fufu to the consumption of its own :
- By way of heated and fried briefly in hot oil and immediately eaten with rice
and Dabu-Dabu (sambal Minahasa).
- Being ingredients for cooking other dishes.
Fufu shredded tuna meat can be added in various dishes such as potato lettuce,
tuna noodles, or cooked with chil, according to individual taste.
C. Klappertaart
Klappertaart in Indonesia is known as a typical cake Manado with the basic
ingredients of coconut, flour, milk, butter, and eggs. The dough recipe is the
influence of the current era of Dutch occupation in Manado. There is a
miraculous way to cook klappertaart, and use bread when baked, it will generate
klapperaart in solid form, can be cut like cake taart in general.
But there is also a way of cooking that is not baked. This will produce a texture
so soft, like eating eustard immediately melts into your mouth. This cake is most
delicious when eaten in the cold, so it should not be left too long on the outside
of the cooling.