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Delicious Sensations from the Minang Kitchen: Various Typical Padang Foods That You Must Try!

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Experience the rich flavors of the archipelago through various typical Padang foods which are famous for their strong and appetizing spices. each dish brings the unforgettable warmth of Minang traditions. Suitable for those of you who want to enjoy a...
 
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One of Indonesia's global culinary icons, rendang is a typical Padang dish that must be tasted. Beef cooked in coconut milk and rich spices, marinated in a slow cooking process, creates a tender texture and intense flavor. Rendang combines various sp...
Rendang Sapi Padang - Padang Style Beef Rendang
 
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One of the typical meat dishes from West Sumatra is Padang satay. Padang satay has various forms, including Padang satay, long Padang satay, and Pariaman satay. Each type of satay has a different peanut sauce, from thick like porridge to a sauce with...
Sate padang (West Sumatra Satay)
 
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This food can also be easily found in Padang restaurants. Balado jerky is usually fried semi-crispy and then combined with lots of chili seasoning to make it spicy and delicious.
Dendeng Balado Khas Padang
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Dendeng batokok is a dish in the form of beef jerky that is bruised until flat and then fried semi-dry. Then when served, the jerky is drizzled with spicy green chili sauce and added with slices of sour and fresh green tomatoes.
Dendeng Batokok / Indonesian spicy thin beef jerky
 
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This typical Padang food may also be found in many Padang restaurants. Tunjang is beef kikil cooked using coconut milk with various spices so that it tastes deliciously delicious. The tunjang curry is usually cooked for quite a long time so that the ...
Gulai Tunjang (Cow Leather / Kikil) "in Gulai Tunjang
 
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Soto is a soupy dish that has different flavors in each region. One of the famous soto in Sumatra is soto Padang. This food is served with a savory and spiced broth filled with vermicelli, beef jerky or fried beef, fried potatoes or perkedel, spring ...
Soto Padang - Padang Beef Soup | Daily Cooking Quest
 
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Kalio beef is a processed meat that resembles rendang. But don't be mistaken, even though it looks similar, beef kalio is actually different from rendang. If rendang is cooked until the sauce is thick and black in color, kalio meat is only cooked unt...
Kalio Daging - Tasty Indonesian Food
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Tamarind fish is a culinary dish that is quite popular in Padang restaurants. This food is a type of fish curry that has a spicy and sour sauce that makes many people addicted when they try it. Even though it is a type of curry, this culinary dish do...
Asam Pedas / Asam Padeh Ikan (Spicy Tamarind Fish Stew)
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Tauco curry is a typical Padang culinary dish with a savory and delicious taste. Tauco curry is of course made from tauco which is cooked using coconut milk, chickpeas and tofu. This dish is usually served as a vegetable accompaniment to ketupat lont...
Gulai Tauco Padang
 
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Jariang (jengkol) is the main ingredient in this typical Padang dish. Kalio jariang is a type of jengkol curry that is cooked until it is thick like rendang, but the sauce is not cooked until it is dry. If you like jengkol, there's no harm in trying ...
Kalio Jariang Padang
 
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The distinctive taste of lamang tapai comes from the cooking process using bamboo. Black sticky rice is cooked in bamboo and once cooked, the lamang is drizzled with fermented tape. It feels suitable to be enjoyed while enjoying the view of Padang Ci...
Lamang tapai - Minangkabau tradition food
 
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Lompong Sago is sago mixed with coconut and banana and then cooked by grilling it after being wrapped in banana leaves. This manufacturing process makes this sweet typical Padang food have a distinctive and delicious aroma.
Minang Traditional Food: Lompong Sagu
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Sala Lauak is a typical savory dish. To make Sala Lauak, ingredients such as dried anchovies, ginger, turmeric, shallots, garlic and crushed chilies are used. These ingredients are mixed with rice flour, salt and water. The dough is then formed into ...
Sala Lauak, West Sumatra special fried dumplings
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This typical Padang cake is served in a sayak or coconut shell container, with two layers of contrasting colors, namely white and brownish red in the middle. The white part has a savory taste, while the brownish red center has a stronger sweet taste.
Kue Mangkuak Sayak kue tradisional minangkabau
 
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Galamai is a typical Padang cake made from a mixture of sticky rice flour, peanuts, coconut milk and palm sugar. All these ingredients are mixed into a dough which is then cooked in a large skillet for about three hours, stirring continuously to get ...
Gelamai Makanan Khas Minang