Meatballs or meatball

Meatballs or meatball is a ball of meat type most prevalent in Indonesian cuisine. Meatball commonly made of a mixture of ground beef and tapioca flour, but there are also meatballs made from chicken, fish, or shrimp. In the presentation, the meatballs are generally served hot with clear beef broth, mixed with noodles, rice noodles, bean sprouts, tofu, sometimes eggs, sprinkled with fried onions and celery. Meatballs are very popular and can be found all over Indonesia; from a street vendor carts to great restaurants. Meatballs are now many different types on offer in the form of frozen foods sold in supermarkets and shopping malls.OriginMeatball has a root of Chinese culinary art from Indonesia as indicated Meatballs term derived from the Bak-So, in Hokkien language which literally means "minced pork". Because most of Indonesia's population is Muslim, it is more common meatballs made from halal meat such as beef, fish, or chicken. As the development time, the term meatball become better known as 'ground beef' anyway. Now, most sellers of the meatballs is a Javanese Wonogiri and Malang. Place the meatballs are known as a center called the Solo and Malang Malang Meatballs.HealthIn the process pembuatanya, there are meatballs mixed with borax or Bleng to make the flour into a more chewy like meat and more durable. This makes the meatballs once thought to be food insecure by BPOM. BPOM warned that eating foods that are high borax over the past 5-10 years may increase the risk of liver cancer. Then the meatballs are sold in many traditional markets and supermarkets are required to free borax.Because the meatballs are made of meat, it should be kept in frozen meatballs before boiling for consumption. For this reason in the supermarket frozen meatballs are sold in a condition to maintain the temperature so that the meatballs can be adversely affected and not contaminated with bacteria. Consumers need to be careful in choosing meatballs meatballs are sold by itinerant traders. Meatballs are sold but display in the window at room temperature susceptible bacterial contamination, such as bacteria that cause salmonella causes diarrhea or typhoid. Choose meatballs being boiled.