Therefore, only by developing home industries processing agricultural products especially the result of fruits that will happen the economic value of various agricultural commodities which in turn will be able to improve the fate and the well-being of Indonesia.
Therefore, starting in the 2000s began pioneering efforts to manufacture dodol and salak fruit chips from a petty.
Outside the suspected food products of the fruit and the lunkhead kripik this turned out to be a lot of interest salak by the people so that the entrepreneurs are getting serious industry efforts to plunge into kripik salak. Finally begins to introduce to the public the making of foods from fruits salak.
Now the products of the fruit and the lunkhead kripik salak artificial medium small companies now market their products dodol and the salaknya fruit crisps are managed.
Although the marketing activities are still limited in the vicinity of Sleman Regency and Yogyakarta, but domestic tourists from various regions of the country to visit kaliurang already often buy products dodol and salak fruit crisps as souvenirs.
Some tips how to make dodol salak?
For manufacturing of dodol and chips salak hygienic, delicious and nutritious fruit, which has been shelled and salak cleaned then shredding machine to a grain-refined grains. Salak fruit grater results it is then cooked or simmered for three hours. Along with it, prepared flour and sugar as additional raw materials which are then mixed with grated godokan salak fruit. Mix the grated fruit-salak, flour and sugar stirred continuously while heated for three hours. Each ingredient in the dough composition containing lunkhead salak fruit consisting of 30 kg salak fruit grater mixed with 1.5 kg of wheat flour and 6 kg of white sugar.
After the dough is cooked newly appointed and then cooled by means of diangin-angin for one night. Then mix the materials have become baking sheet was printed using the dodol. Printout then dried using electric dryer machine or can also use heat rays of the Sun by means of drying process.
The next stage of dodol already so it is then cut into pieces corresponding to the desired size and then drained back by using a gas oven. The final stage is to wrap the pieces in plastic or paper dodol, then packed in cardboard boxes that had been provided in advance.
Manufacturing production could hold it for six months without causing a change of color, taste or smell. With these product durability then the salak fruit is an alternative dodol is very good for salak fruit processing.
Because that way the product of dodol may be stored long enough and not easily damaged/rotten. Although the production capacity of dodol and chips of fruits salak managed entrepreneurs is still very limited, but agricultural commodity processing industry enterprises the original area is very necessary because the Government has supported economic potential to be developed in this country.