Swikee or Swikee is Indonesian Chinese cuisine made from frog thighs. This dish can be found in the form of soup, deep fried, or sauteed. Originally this dish comes from the influence of Chinese cuisine into Indonesia. The
term "swikee" is derived from the Hokkien dialect (水 雞, Peh-oe-ji:
SUI-to) sui (water) and to (chicken), which is a slang or smoothing for
calling frogs as "water chicken". These
foods are usually associated with the area Purwodadi. [1] The main
ingredient of this dish is the frog legs (generally of "green frog" or
"green frog" (Jw.)) With herbs garlic, ginger, and tauco, salt, and
pepper. It was served with a sprinkling of fried garlic and celery on it, swikee usually served with white rice.
Some argue that the taste and texture of swikee is a blend of chicken and fish. Generally only the thigh frog that made swikee, but part of the skin can be dried and fried into crispy skin of frogs. How to cook swikee the other is "spiced frog" frog boneless meat cooked in a banana leaf packet as pepes.In
addition to Purwodadi, swikee can also be found in various cities in
Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Bandung (one popular restaurant chains is
"Swikee Jatiwangi"), Yogyakarta, Semarang and Surabaya. Generally restaurants swikee in Indonesia calls itself as the restaurant "swikee Purwodadi" or "swikee Jatiwangi".Indonesia
is the largest exporter of frogs' legs in the world, with exports of
more than five thousand tons of frog thigh meat annually, mostly to meet
demand from France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. [2]
In the past obtained by hunting frogs from nature, such as catch it in
the fields, and frogs are easy to find, especially during the rainy
season. Now there are several farm frogs for export meet the demand of foreign markets, especially France.
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