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This Lady of Blitar Turns Fish into Delicious Foods

Selasa, 09 Maret 2021 - 00:03 | 38.44k
Siti Purwanti the girl who turns fish into delicious foods. (Photo: Sholeh/TIMES Indonesia)
Siti Purwanti the girl who turns fish into delicious foods. (Photo: Sholeh/TIMES Indonesia)

TIMESINDONESIA, BLITAR – With a huge number of local fishes found at her area, a lady of Blitar has seen a chance in it. She turned local fish into various delicious food and dumplings.

Siti Purwanti who lives at Tumpuk, Tangkil, Wlingi Blitar, East Java has found her interest in creating some tasty foods from fishes. She created around 34 variants of food with fish based at her home.

Siti who started her business in November 2019 make used every part of the fish from the top to the tail. "It's the regular catfish and silver catfish. I make use of every inch of it," Siri said.

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She turned the fishes s into fish nuggets,  fishball, fish floss, crackers, some dumplings. She also made it into filling like those in sambosa, kroket, spring rolls, tortilla, and more.

What more surprising is, she has fish cookies, chocolate bars, fish flour, fish salsa and lot more.  These variants were meant to give the customers some more choice for her products.

Siti doesn't need to busy about the basil materials. Her husband has cultured the fish at their own place. "It was started when we have some issue in distributing the fish, then the idea came out," she said.

At first, she was just turning the fish into some regular product they could find in market such as nugget, sausage, or fish ball. "I also made an instant noodle with fish base," she said.

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In a day, she could spend around 6 kg of fish. As a new starter it has been such a good thing to have. In a month she could get around IDR 7 million profit. Her food could last for 3 months in a freezer.

"Lots of people coming for the food during social restrictions. But as the government loosen the restrictions the sale has been decreasing," this lady of Blitar who turns fish into delicious food ended. (*)

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