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Indonesian Dishes You Should Try at Least Once
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items These are some national dishes that represent Indonesia. You should try these foods, at least once. You either love it or hate it. Find out yourself!
Literally everyone has tried Fried Rice at some point in their life. What makes Indonesian Fried Rice different is it comes with a host of salty seasonings, with thick soy sauce called Kecap and garnished with parsley, Acar, pickled cucumber, tomato,...
Nasi Goreng / Fried Rice
It's made from minced meat, usually beef or chicken, with herbs and spices like lemongrass, galangal, chili, and lime leaves are added to give it a fresh taste since the meat skewers are cooked over coals. These juicy skewers is usually served with r...
Sate / Satay / Sate Padang / Sate Madura
Padang food is famous for its spiciness and richness in flavor. It is somehow similar to Beef Curry but without the broth. This food patiently takes forever to cook to get that tenderness out of the beef cooked to perfection with flavorful herbs and ...
Rendang / Beef Rendang / Rendang Padang
It's a soup which boiled with aromatic herbs like lemongrass and Indonesian bay leaves, and flavored with candlenut, galangal, garlic, and shallots, and finally often a combination of both fresh cow milk and coconut milk are added to make the soup cr...
Soto / Chicken Soto / Soto Ayam
It's made from ground fish meat and tapioca. Having a crisp outer layer and a soft chewy texture, this delicious cuisine is served with a special sweet and sour sauce called Kuah Cuko, which is a dark dipping sauce made from vinegar, chill and sugar....
Pempek / Pempek Palembang / Fish Cakes / Empek-empek
It sometimes includes vermicelli rice noodles or yellow noodle, green onions, and fried shallots. Sweet soy sauce and Sambal are also served to customers who want to add more flavor to their meal. And Mie Ayam Bakso is usually topped with succulent s...
Bakso / Meatball / Baso / Mie Ayam Bakso / Bakso Malang
The rice grains have to be cooked in coconut milk with bay leaves, lime leaves, lemongrass, and galingale to produce the delicious taste of fragrance coconut rice. Nasi uduk is often served with various other dishes such as sunny-side-up eggs, Tempe,...
Nasi Uduk / Coconut Rice / Fragrant Coconut Rice / Nasi Lemak
Not a dish but more like a culinary experience, it's typically seasoned with fresh curry pastes that include ingredients like turmeric, garlic, galangal, shallots, and a handful of herbs with various dishes, like curries, chickens, fishes, and variou...
Nasi Padang
It's more of a cooking method. There are plenty of pepes dishes, but the most common ones are fish and chicken. The ingredients, spices, and seasonings are all bundled together in a banana leaf wrap, then roasted. This steamed dish is flavourful and ...
Pepes
This food of Indonesia is for all the dumpling fans out there. Siomay is an Indonesian steamed dumplings which contains a variety of fillings that include fish, tofu, chicken, shrimp, fishcake, and many other stuffed items. Typical vendors that sell ...
Siomay / Dumpling / Siomay Bandung
It is popularly eaten all around Indonesia. It is consumed raw or tossed into another preparation like ice cream or Durian cake. The best Durian use is in the Es Campur Durian, which is the Durian-flavoured mix of shaved ice. It is excellent for the...
Durian / King of Fruits / Durian Medan
Martabak Manis is a sweet waffle like cake, that’s smothered in butter (or margarine), sugar, cheese, chocolate, or a variety of other fillings of choice, and eaten like a cross between a pancake and a birthday cake. You can choose mix fillings from ...
Martabak / Sweet Martabak/ Savory Martabak / Martabak Bangka / Martabak Telur / Martabak Manis / Murtabak / Egg Martabak
Cost so cheap and you get a quick and satisfying snack. With so many flavours to choose from, and the options are endless and too many to choose from that you’d hope they would stop inventing more flavours. Fried noodle or Indomie soup, just give thi...
Indomie
It is a soup with Oxtail as its main hero. It is a healthy and hearty soup loved by many people. The oxtail is usually fried or barbecued and combined with a soup base. Very tasty and yummy.
Sop Buntut / Oxtail Soup
This Indonesian dish is traditionally made of salad by mixing steamed vegetables such as green beans, bean sprouts, and cabbage with tofu, Tempe, sometimes rice cake, and hard-boiled eggs. They then dress the salad with a flavorful peanut sauce and t...
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