SLC-S25/W1 | Community World Tour : Traditional Cuisine
Assalamu Alaikum.
Hello everyone,
I am @sojib1996
From #Bangladesh
Today, in the first week of Steemit Challenge 25, I will participate in @kouba01 Sir's
SLC-S25/W1 | Community World Tour: Traditional Cuisinecompetition. First of all, I would like to thank Sir for organizing such a beautiful event. I hope everyone will enjoy it.
Today, I will write about the traditional food of our country, Semai, as per the competition. Semai is one of our traditional dishes. In Bengali, this semai is derived from the Greek word "semidalis". The word semidalis means flour and flour is a Persian word.
This semai is of two types, one is made in a machine and the other is prepared by dividing flour into flakes.
Semai is a sweet dish in Bengali cuisine, it is made with raisins, sugar, and hot spices. This food is popular in our country. Especially, it is organized more during the biggest festivals of Muslims, Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha.
Also, this semai is made along with breakfast when guests come to the house. In rural Bengal, sweets are still served according to the wedding rules, in which case they are served with semai.
This traditional food is often prepared in our house, it is more popular in the capital city of our country, Dhaka, so it is said that it is popular in all parts of the country including Dhaka.
The origin of this food is specific It is not possible to say with certainty, but this food is still popular in the Indian subcontinent, I think it was made during the reign of kings.
This food has been our tradition for ages, so the attraction towards this food is as always and it is quite delicious, so everyone in the family likes it. The taste of Semair is incomparable, so I cook it and eat it.
Since Semai is a dessert and is one of our traditional dishes, I often make it and eat it because it is delicious.
I will show the Semai recipe below with step-by-step pictures and at the end I will give a video that will make the Semai recipe clear.
I am giving the ingredients below to make Semai
| Item | Weight |
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| Semai | 100 grams |
| Milk | 500 grams |
| Sugar | 50 grams |
| Raisins | Amount like |
| Piststhios | Amount like |
| Cherry | Amount like |
| cinnamon stick | 1 piece small size |
| cardamom | 3 piecest |
| Bay leaf | 1 piece |
Now I will make the recipe step by step.
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First of all, I put it in a clean pot at a certain temperature and I added 500 grams of milk there.
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After adding the milk, I added cinnamon, cardamom and bay leaves as spices and kept stirring. This will create a fragrance and make it attractive.
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After mixing, I added 50 grams of sugar to make it sweeter and enhance the flavor of the semai, then I continued mixing well.
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After mixing for some time, I put the semai from the packet in a container and in that container, I added the mixed milk to the semai.
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I kept it separately for some time so that the milk would enter the semai. Then I added raisins there.
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I added pistachios and cherries along with the raisins to enhance the taste and make it interesting.
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When the recipe was done, I wrote my literacy on a piece of paper.
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I took a picture with the semai in my hand.
Below I have given a video of my recipe making, it is more beautiful and the recipe is presented.
This is a traditional dish of our country so I will pin up my city location on Steam Atlas. I am very happy to pin this recipe on the Steem Atlas map because it allows me to show the traditional dishes of my country to the whole world. I am pinning up my city location.
💁♂️ Location on Steem Atlas map :[//]:# (!steematlas 23.6855993 lat 90.4430944 long Traditional Cuisine (Semai) Dhaka, Bangladesh d3scr)
We have a culture of eating this traditional food, which is why we always eat it to preserve it and take it to the homes of hospitable relatives to eat.
I would like to invite my friends @suborna03 @ulfatulrahmah and @ngoenyi to take part in the contest.
You have participated in a very beautiful competition and the topic of this competition was that you have tried to give a very beautiful idea about your traditional food through this post. And the food that you have prepared in this competition does not look very salty, I know it will be very delicious to eat. The food that you have prepared, which looks like it will be very delicious to eat, and you have tried to tell the hidden traditions about this food, which I can learn about this food by saying, and also what you have shared. I would not have known if I had not read your post that such wonderful and traditional food can be prepared at home or in a domestic way with a little and few ingredients at our fingertips. You have prepared this food very skillfully and made a beautiful food in a short time with a few ingredients. Also, each step of the recipe that you shared has been presented so beautifully and skillfully that by knowing and reading it, we can easily learn about this food and can prepare it at our own homes, which was really good. Anyway, thank you very much for sharing such a beautiful food post with us and thank you for sharing your traditional food with us. May you be very well and healthy. Best wishes to you, my dear friend.
My X-promotion Link
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Sure, I know this dish well since its a common dish in our part of the world. We even make these salted with peas and of course the sweet version as you have presented. A great job, my best wishes.
Wow @sojib1996, your post truly feels like a warm trip to your kitchen in Dhaka! I’ve never tasted semai before, but the way you told the story behind it, from its Greek root to the love it's made with during Eid, gave it a soul beyond just a recipe. I loved how you tied this dish to your country’s hospitality and celebration culture.
Your step-by-step pictures made me hungry and inspired. Thanks for bringing tradition to life so beautifully. 🤍🍽
@anowarhoussain
The name of the recipe is Caramel Pudding, the specialty of this pudding is caramel. Although pudding is easy to make, it is now made and eaten at home in our country. It is soft and everyone can eat it. It is a delicious dish. Thank you for your kind comments.
@dasudi Thank you so much ma'am for verifying my post
@dove11 Thank you So much Sir
Thank you @sojib1996, for your participation in Week 1 of the Community World Tour on Traditional Cuisine! Here's a detailed evaluation of your entry based on the official 10-point criteria:
Total Score: 8.5 / 10
A rich and structured contribution with strong visuals and a well-explained cooking process. Including a heartfelt family story and engaging more in the comments could elevate your next entries. Great job bringing Semai and Bangladeshi culinary tradition to this global challenge!
Thank you once again for your valuable and sweet participation in our challenge. We truly appreciate your contribution.
— Community World Tour Jury