cuisine in MINANGKABAU

If you want to know the staple ingredients of the Minangkabau diet are rice, fish, coconut, green leafy vegetables and chili. The usage of meat is mainly limited to special occasions, and beef and chicken are most commonly used. Pork is not halal and therefore not consumed, while lamb, goat and game are rarely consumed for reasons of taste and availability. Spiciness is a characteristic of Minangkabau food, and the most commonly used herbs and spices are chili, turmeric, ginger and galangal.

Vegetables are consumed two or three times a day. Fruits are mainly seasonal, although fruits such as banana, papaya and citrus are continually available.

HOW ABOUT MINANGKABAU PEOPLE?

ASsAlamulaikum..........interest in adat perpatih make me interst to post about Minangkabau Minangkabau ethnic group that known as Minang is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in indonesia. Their culture is matrinelial, with property and land passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men . Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra, while about 3 million more are scattered throughout many Indonesian and Malay peninsular cities and towns in Malaysia such as Negeri Sembilan and Naning.

The Minangkabau are strongly islamic but also follow their ethnic traditions that called adat. The Minangkabau adat was derived from animist beliefs before the arrival of Islam, and remnants of animist beliefs still exist even among some practicing Muslims. The present relationship between Islam and adat is described in the saying "tradition [adat] founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon the Qur'an

Their West Sumatran homelands were the location of the PADRI war from 1821 to 1837.