Tradisional Food In
Indonesia
1.
Sate
Satay or sate, is a dish of
seasoned,
skewered
and
grilled
meat, served with a sauce.
Satay may consist of diced or sliced
chicken,
goat,
mutton,
beef,
pork,
fish,
other meats, or
tofu;
the more authentic version uses skewers from the midrib of the
coconut
palm frond, although
bamboo skewers are often used. These are
grilled
or
barbecued
over a wood or charcoal fire, then served with various spicy seasonings.
Satay is a
very popular delicacy in Indonesia; the country's diverse ethnic groups'
culinary arts (see
Indonesian cuisine) have produced a wide
variety of satays. In Indonesia, satay can be obtained from a travelling satay
vendor, from a street-side tent-
restaurant,
in an upper-class restaurant, or during traditional celebration feasts. In
Malaysia, satay is a popular dish—especially during celebrations—and can be
found throughout the country.
2.
Bakso
Bakso or baso is
Indonesian meatball
or meat paste made from beef
surimi and is similar in texture to the
Chinese
beef ball,
fish ball,
or
pork ball.
Bakso is commonly made from
beef with a small quantity of
tapioca flour,
however bakso can also be made from other ingredients, such as chicken, fish,
or shrimp. Bakso are usually served in a bowl of beef
broth, with yellow
noodles,
bihun
(rice vermicelli), salted vegetables,
tofu, egg (wrapped within
bakso),
Chinese green
cabbage,
bean sprout,
siomay or
steamed meat dumpling, and crisp
wonton, sprinkled with fried
shallots
and
celery.
Bakso can be found all across Indonesia; from the traveling cart street vendors
to restaurants. Today various types of ready to cook bakso also available as
frozen food
commonly sold in
supermarkets in Indonesia. Slices of bakso
often used and mixed as compliments in
mi goreng,
nasi goreng,
or cap cai recipes.
Unlike other
meatball recipes, bakso has a consistent firm, dense, homogeneous texture due
to the
polymerization of
myosin in the
beef surimi.
3.
Gado - Gado
Gado-gado (
Indonesian or
Betawi),
also known as
lotek (
Sundanese and
Javanese),
is an
Indonesian salad of slightly boiled
vegetables and hard-boiled eggs served with a
peanut sauce
dressing.
Gado-gado in Indonesian literary means "mix-mix"
since it is made of rich mixture of vegetables such as potatoes, string beans,
bean sprouts, spinach, chayote, bitter gourd, corn and cabbage, with tofu,
tempeh and hard-boiled eggs, all mixed in peanut sauce dressing, sometimes also
topped with
krupuk
and sprinkles of fried shallots. Gado-gado is different from
lotek atah
or
karedok
which uses raw vegetables. Another similar dish is the Javanese
pecel.
Gado-gado is
thought to have originally been a
Sundanese
dish. It is widely available from hawkers carts, stalls (
warung) and
restaurants and hotels in
Indonesia; it is also served in Indonesian-style restaurants
worldwide. Though it is customarily called a salad, the sauce is a larger
component of gado-gado than is usual in Western-style salads; the vegetables
should be well coated with it. Formerly, gado-gado sauce was generally made to
order, sometimes in front of the customers to suit their personal preference
for the amount of
chili pepper included. However, particularly in
the West, gado-gado sauce is often prepared ahead of time and in bulk,
Gado-gado sauce is also available in dried form, which simply needs to be
rehydrated by adding hot water. Gado-gado sauce is not to be confused with
satay sauce, which is also
a peanut sauce.
4.
Rendang
Rendang is a
spicy
meat dish which originated
from the
Minangkabau ethnic group of
Indonesia,
and is now commonly served across the country. One of the characteristic foods
of Minangkabau culture, it is served at ceremonial occasions and to honour
guests. Rendang is also commonly served among the
Malay
community in
Malaysia,
and is also popular in
Singapore,
Brunei, the southern
Philippines
and southern
Thailand.
Rendang is traditionally prepared by the
Indonesian
and
Malaysian
community during festive occasions such as traditional ceremonies, wedding
feasts, and
Hari Raya (
Eid al-Fitr). Culinary experts often describe
rendang as: 'West Sumatran caramelized beef curry'. In 2011 an online poll by
35,000 people held by CNN International chose
Rendang as the number one
dish of their 'World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods (Readers' Pick)' list.
5.
Pempek
Pempek, mpek-mpek or empek-empek
is a savoury fishcake
delicacy from Palembang,
Indonesia,
made of fish and tapioca.
Pempek is served with yellow noodles and a dark, rich sweet and sour sauce called kuah
cuka or kuah cuko (lit. vinegar
sauce).
6.
Gudeg
Gudeg is a traditional food from
Yogyakarta
and
Central Java,
Indonesia.
Gudeg is made from young unripe
jack fruit
(
Javanese:
gori,
Indonesian:
nangka muda)
boiled for several hours with
palm sugar, and
coconut milk.
Additional spices include garlic, shallot,
candlenut,
coriander
seed,
galangal,
bay leaves,
and
teak
leaves, the latter giving a reddish brown color to the dish. It is also called
Green Jack Fruit Sweet Stew. Gudeg is served with white rice, chicken,
hard-boiled egg,
tofu
and/or
tempeh,
and a stew made of crisp beef skins (
sambel goreng krecek).
There are several types of gudeg; dry, wet, Yogyakarta style,
Solo
style and East-Javanese style. Dry gudeg has only a bit of coconut milk and
thus has little sauce. Wet gudeg includes more coconut milk. The most common
gudeg comes from Yogyakarta, and is usually sweeter, drier and reddish in color
because of the addition of teak leaves. Solo gudeg from the city of
Surakarta
and is more watery and soupy with lots of coconut milk and whitish in color
because teak leaves are generally not added. The East-Javanese style of gudeg
has a spicier and hotter taste compared to the Yogyakarta-style gudeg (which is
sweeter). Gudeg is traditionally associated with
Yogyakarta, and Yogyakarta is sometimes
nicknamed "Kota Gudeg" (city of gudeg). The center of Yogyakarta
gudeg restaurants is in the Wijilan area to the east side of the Yogyakarta
Kraton (Sultan's palace). Gudeg can be packed into a besek (box made from
bamboo), kendil (clay jar), or can.
7.
Rawon
Rawon or Nasi Rawon/Rawon Rice (when served with rice) is a
strong rich tasting traditional Indonesian beef black soup. Originally from
Surabaya
in
Indonesian province of
East Java.
It uses black nuts/
keluak
(
Pangeum edule, fruits of kepayang tree) as the main spice which gives
the strong nutty flavor and dark color to the soup.
The soup is
made of ground mixture of garlic, shallot,
keluak, ginger,
candlenut,
turmeric,
red chili and salt sauteed with oil until it gets aromatic. The sauteed mixture
is then poured into boiled beef stock with diced beef. Lemongrass, galangal,
bay leaves,
kaffir lime leaves and sugar are then added as
seasonings. The special dark/black color of rawon comes from the keluak as the
main spice. The soup is usually garnished with green onion and fried shallot,
and served with rice(sometimes fried rice), hence the name Rawon Rice or Nasi
Rawon in Indonesian language, together with baby bean sprouts, salted preserved
egg, shrimp crackers and
sambal chili sauce on the side.
Pictured here
is
Rawon Setan (Devil's Rawon), a popular rawon dish from
Surabaya.
The reason behind this nickname is because the
warung (stall) that sells
this rawon dish is open from midnight to dawn just like the time when they say
devils come out. The Rawon Setan stall, is quite popular in Surabaya.
8.
Opor Ayam
Opor ayam
is a chicken cooked in coconut milk
from Indonesia, especially from Central Java. Opor ayam is also a popular dish
for lebaran or Eid ul-Fitr, usually eaten with ketupat
and sambal goreng ati (beef liver in sambal).
9.
Nasi Goreng
Nasi
goreng has been called the
national dish
of
Indonesia,
though there are
many other contenders. It can be enjoyed in
simple versions from a tin plate at a roadside food stall, eaten on porcelain
in restaurants, or collected from the buffet tables of Jakarta dinner parties.
In 2011 an
online poll by 35,000 people held by CNN International chose
Nasi Goreng
as the number two of their 'World’s 50 Most Delicious Foods' list after
rendang.