List of Indonesian cuisine
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This is a list of selected dishes found in Indonesian cuisine.

Dishes

Name Image Origin/Popularity Type Description
Ayam Kalasan Kalasan, Yogyakarta Fried Chicken Fried chicken with kremes (crispy granules).
Ayam Taliwang
Ayam Taliwang
-History:Although Ayam Taliwang is said to be a dish favoured by Sasak nobility, Abdul Hamid claims to have invented the dish in 1970. It is named after Karang Taliwang in Mataram, the capital of Lombok.-Preparation:...

Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Roasted chicken originated from Nusa Tenggara
Lesser Sunda Islands
The Lesser Sunda Islands or Nusa Tenggara are a group of islands in the southern Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands...

 (east of Bali), chicken cooked in various spicy herbs and seasoning.
Babi Guling Bali Roasted meat Balinese-style roast pork; comparable to Hawaiian luau-style pig.
Bakmi Goreng Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish (Fried Noodles) served with eggs, sometimes chicken, beef or seafood, with assorted vegetables such as thinly sliced carrots, (bok choi) or Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage
Chinese cabbage can refer to two distinct varieties of Chinese leaf vegetables used often in Chinese cuisine. These vegetables are both related to the Western cabbage, and are of the same species as the common turnip...

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Bakwan Malang Malang, East Java Noodle dish also known as Bakso Malang, meatball noodle soup with fried wontons from city of Malang
Betutu
Betutu
Betutu is a Balinese dish of steamed or roasted chicken or duck. This highly seasoned and spiced dish is a popular dish in Bali and Lombok. An even spicier version is available using extra-spicy sauce made from uncooked onion slices mixed with red chili peppers and coconut oil.This traditional...

Bali and Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Roasted poultry Traditional Balinese dishes made from chicken or duck and usually has spicy tastes.
Buntut Java Meat Soup or Roasted meat (Ox-tail) served in clear soup (in which case the dish is called Sop Buntut/Ox-tail soup) or roasted alone then served with barbecue sauce
Barbecue sauce
Barbecue sauce is a flavoring sauce or condiment ranging from watery to very thick consistency. As the name implies, it was created as an accompaniment to barbecued foods. While it can be applied to any food, it usually tops meat after cooking or during barbecuing, grilling, or baking...

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Bubur Ayam Java Rice porridge (congee) with chicken Rice porridge served with soy sauce, spices, fried shallots, shredded chicken meat, beans, cakwee, krupuk, and sambal
Bubur Manado (Tinutuan) Manado, North Sulawesi Rice porridge (congee) with vegetables and salted fish Rice porridge served with spices, corn, vegetables, cassava or sweet potato, shallots, shredded salted fish, leek, and sambal
Cakalang Fufu Manado, North Sulawesi Grilled smoked fish Grilled smoked Tuna skipjack fish stuck on bamboo
Cap Cai
Cap cai
Cap cai sometimes spelled Cap cay is Hokkien-derived term of a popular Chinese Indonesian stir fried vegetable dish that originates from Fujian cuisine....

Indonesian Chinese Stir fried vegetable Stir fried of ten type of vegetables dish. There are two types of Cap Cai, Red and White. Red uses Indonesian Tomato Sauce or Ketchup to give it a distinct sweet flavor, while the white one has nothing added to it.
Empal Gentong
Empal gentong
Empal gentong is a spicy curry-like beef soup originated from Cirebon, West Java. This soup is similar to gulai that usually cooked with firewood stove in gentong . The ingredients are parts of beef meat, intestine, tripes, lungs, etc. cooked in curry-like spices in coconut milk, kucai and sambal...

Cirebon, West Java Meat soup mutton or goat offal soup from Cirebon
Cirebon
Cirebon is a port city on the north coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is located in the province of West Java near the provincial border with Central Java, approximately 297 km east of Jakarta, at .The seat of a former Sultanate, the city's West and Central Java border location have...

, West Java.
Gado-gado
Gado-gado
Gado-gado , also called Lotek for its cooked version - differed from lotek atah or karedok for its fresh and raw version of the vegetable covered with peanut sauce and pecel is an Indonesian dish comprising a vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce dressing...

Java Vegetarian food a mixture of vegetables, crackers and rice with peanut flavoured sauce. The taste is sweet in Eastern Java and salty in Western Java. It's described in an Indonesian hotel menu as Indonesian salad with peanut sauce
Peanut sauce
Peanut sauce, satay sauce, bumbu kacang, or sambal kacang is a sauce widely used in the cuisines of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Africa. It is also used, to a lesser extent, in European and Middle Eastern cuisine.-Ingredients:The main ingredient is ground roasted peanuts, for...

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Gepuk or Empal West Java Fried meat sometimes called empal gepuk), fried shredded beef in sweet spice from West Java
West Java
West Java , with a population of over 43 million, is the most populous and most densely populated province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, it is slightly smaller in area than densely populated Taiwan, but with nearly double the population...

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Gudeg
Gudeg
Gudeg is a traditional food from Yogyakarta and Central Java, Indonesia which is made from young Nangka 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...

Yogyakarta, Central Java Vegetable and meat in coconut milk sauce raw jackfruit
Jackfruit
The jackfruit is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family . It is native to parts of Southern and Southeast Asia. It is the national fruit of Bangladesh, . The jackfruit tree is believed to be indigenous to the southwestern rain forests of India...

 that cooked in a Javanese traditional way that originated from Yogyakarta)
Gulai
Gulai
Gulai is a type of food contained rich, spicy and succulent curry-like sauce. The main ingredients might be chicken, beef, mutton, various kinds of offals, fish and seafoods, and also vegetables such as cassava leafs and young jackfruit. The gulai sauce commonly have thick consistency with...

Nationwide Meat or vegetable soup Indonesian curry) characterised with yellow colour from turmeric and coconut milk
Coconut milk
Coconut milk is the water that comes from the grated meat of a coconut. The colour and rich taste of the milk can be attributed to the high oil content. In many parts of the world, the term coconut milk is also used to refer to coconut water, the naturally occurring liquid found inside the hollow...

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Karedok
Karedok
Karedok is a raw vegetable salad in peanut sauce from West Java, Indonesia. It is one of the Sundanese signature dish. It is made from cucumbers, bean sprouts, cabbage, legumes, Thai basil, and small green eggplant, covered in peanut sauce dressing...

West Java Vegetarian food raw vegetables served with peanut sauce from West Java
West Java
West Java , with a population of over 43 million, is the most populous and most densely populated province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, it is slightly smaller in area than densely populated Taiwan, but with nearly double the population...

(It's close to East Java
East Java
East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and islands to its east and to its north East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and...

 pecel, but karedok uses raw vegetables)
Ketupat Sayur Betawi, Jakarta Chicken or meat soup with rice cake Pressed rice cake served with chicken or meat soup in coconut milk, labu, jackfruit, and krupuk
Ketoprak Jakarta Vegetarian food almost the same with Eastern Java's gado-gado but with saltier taste. A popular dish from Western Java. The main difference from Gado gado is that this food is served with bihun, a thin rice noodle, hence the whole dish is sometimes called "Bakmi Ketoprak"/Ketoprak noodle)
Krecek Java made from krupuk kulit (skin cracker), potato, and soy beans
Krengsengan mutton sautee with sweet soy sauce aka kecap manis and petis udang, the Indonesian translation for Black Shrimp Paste
Shrimp paste
Shrimp paste or shrimp sauce, is a common ingredient used in Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cuisine. It is known as terasi in Indonesian, ngapi in Burmese, kapi in Thai, Khmer and Lao language, belacan in Malay, mắm ruốc, mắm tép and mắm tôm in...

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Kwetiau goreng Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish Stir fried flat noodle, similar to char kway teow
Char kway teow
Char kway teow, literally "stir-fried ricecake strips", is a popular noodle dish in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore. The dish was typically prepared at hawker stalls especially in Penang, Malaysia.It is made from flat rice noodles of approximately 1 cm or...

Kwetiau ayam Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish Flat noodle with chicken, sometimes served with pangsi (wonton) and bakso (meatball) soup
Laksa
Laksa
Laksa is a popular spicy noodle soup from the Peranakan culture, which is a merger of Chinese and Malay elements found in Malaysia and Singapore, and to a lesser extent Indonesia.- Origin :The origin of the name "laksa" is unclear...

Bogor and Jakarta Vegetable soup the popular one in Indonesia is Laksa Bogor
Bogor
Bogor is a city on the island of Java in the West Java province of Indonesia. The city is located in the center of the Bogor Regency , 60 kilometers south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta...

 that contains rice vermicelli, beansprouts, and oncom
Oncom
Oncom is one of the traditional staple foods of West Javan cuisine. There are two kinds of oncom: red oncom and black oncom...

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Lawar Bali Vegetable and meat dish A traditional Balinese accompanying cuisine for rice and other Balinese cuisine which consists of shredded unripe jackfruit, young banana flower, a liberal amount of pork rind bits, raw pig blood. These are mashed with a plethora of herbs such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, shallots, and garlic.
Lontong Cap Gomeh Jakarta, Indonesian Chinese Pressed rice cake served with soup Lontong (pressed rice cake) served in soup, chicken, egg and meat, especially served on the fifteenth day of the first month of each Chinese year
Chinese calendar
The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. It is not exclusive to China, but followed by many other Asian cultures as well...

/Cap Go Meh
Mie aceh
Mie aceh
Mie Aceh is a spicy noodle dish, specialty of Acehnese people in Indonesia. The thick yellow noodle with slices of beef, goat meat or seafood is served in rich and spicy curry-like soup. Mie Aceh is available in two variations; Mie Aceh Goreng and Mie Aceh Kuah...

Aceh Noodle dish A rich and spicy noodle dish from Aceh, available in two variations; Mie Aceh Goreng (fried and dry) and Mie Aceh Kuah (soupy). Usually made with goat meat or seafood and served with emping, slices of shallots, cucumber, and lime.
Mie celor
Mie Celor
Mie Celor , is a noodle dish served in coconut milk soup and ebi broth, served with beansprout and boiled egg, and sprinkled with sliced fresh celery, scallion and fried shallot. The dish is originated from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, and together with Pempek it has become Palembang...

Palembang, South Sumatra Noodle dish A Palembang South Sumatra style of noodle and egg dish. With beansprout and fried shallots. The white sauce is made with mixture of "ebi" or dried shrimp that gaves unique taste.
Mie goreng Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish Fried Noodle
Mie rebus Indonesian Chinese and Javanese Noodle dish Boiled noodle soup
Mie kocok Bandung, West Java Noodle dish Noodle in beef broth served with cow's tendons or cartilage
Mie ayam Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish also known as Cui Mie
Mie bakso Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish
Nasi campur (Nasi Rames) Nationwide Rice dish (Mixed Rice) rice with assorted vegetables and meat of choice.
Nasi goreng
Nasi goreng
Nasi goreng, literally meaning "fried rice" in Indonesian, can refer simply to fried pre-cooked rice, a meal including stir fried rice in small amount of cooking oil or margarine, typically spiced with kecap manis , shallot, garlic, tamarind and chilli and accompanied with other ingredients,...

Nationwide Rice dish (Fried Rice) steamed rice stir-fried
Stir frying
Stir frying is an umbrella term used to describe two Chinese cooking techniques for preparing food in a wok: chǎo and bào . The term stir-fry was introduced into the English language by Buwei Yang Chao, in her book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, to describe the chǎo technique...

 with eggs, meatballs, chicken/beef/shrimp, assorted vegetables. The rice is made brown with thick and sweet soy sauce (kecap manis).
Nasi kuning
Nasi kuning
Nasi Kuning is an Indonesian rice dish cooked with coconut milk and turmeric, hence the name nasi kuning . Nasi kuning might come in the form of a cone called a tumpeng and is usually eaten during special events...

Nationwide Rice dish usually eaten during special event. The rice is cooked with coconut milk and turmeric, hence the name nasi kuning (yellow rice). It is usually served with more variety of side dishes than nasi campur.
Nasi liwet
Nasi liwet
Nasi liwet is a kind of food from Solo, Central Java. As we know, rice is usually cooked in water, but nasi liwet is rice cooked in coconut milk. This is a traditional Javanese way of cooking, from the past until now. In the past, the pan used for cooking was made of clay...

Solo, Central Java Rice dish Usually rice processed with coconut milk
Coconut milk
Coconut milk is the water that comes from the grated meat of a coconut. The colour and rich taste of the milk can be attributed to the high oil content. In many parts of the world, the term coconut milk is also used to refer to coconut water, the naturally occurring liquid found inside the hollow...

 and served with chicken, egg, and spicy broth.
Nasi padang Padang, Western Sumatra, nationwide Rice dish originated from Padang where most of the food involved coconut milk and heavy taste of chili. very wide selection of side dish
Nasi pecel
Nasi pecel
Nasi pecel is a Javanese rice dish served with pecel . The vegetables are usually kangkung or water spinach, long beans, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, and in East Java often used kembang turi. It tastes best when eaten with fried tempeh and traditional cracker called peyek...

Java Vegetarian food Rice served with cooked vegetables and peanut sauce. The vegetables are usually kangkung
Kangkung
Kangkung may refer to:*Ipomoea aquatica, Water spinach, an Asian leaf vegetable*Kangkung, Burma...

 or water spinach, long beans, cassava
Cassava
Cassava , also called yuca or manioc, a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae native to South America, is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates...

 leaves, papaya
Papaya
The papaya , papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae...

 leaves, and in East Java
East Java
East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and islands to its east and to its north East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and...

 often used kembang turi. Taste best when eaten with fried tempeh
Tempeh
Tempeh , or tempe , is a traditional soy product originally from Indonesia. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form, similar to a very firm vegetarian burger patty...

 and traditional cracker. Popular in East and Central Java.
Nasi rawon East Java Meat soup Rice served with dark beef soup, originally from East Java
East Java
East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and islands to its east and to its north East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and...

. The dark color comes from the meaty seeds of kluwak nuts. Usually served with uncooked mung bean sprouts and salty duck eggs.
Nasi tim
Nasi tim
Nasi tim is a Chinese Indonesian steamed chicken rice. In Indonesian language nasi literally means rice and tim means steam. The ingredients are chicken and mushroom and hard boiled egg were seasoned in soy sauce and garlic, and later those ingredients were put in the bottom of the tin bowl. The...

Indonesian Chinese Rice dish Steamed rice usually served with chicken and mushroom.
Nasi uduk Java Rice dish Steamed rice served with variety of vegetables and meat of choice. It is similar to Nasi Rames, but the rice is steamed. A similar dish found in Malaysia or Singapore is called Nasi Lemak
Nasi lemak
Nasi lemak is a dish sold in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Riau Islands and Southern Thailand. The dish is considered the national dish and a national heritage of Malaysia. It is not to be confused with Nasi Dagang sold on the east coast of Malaysia or Terengganu and Kelantan although both dishes...

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Nasi ulam
Nasi ulam
Nasi ulam is a steamed rice dish mixed with various herbs, especially the leaves of pegagan or often replaced with kemangi , vegetables, spices and accompanied with various side dishes...

Jakarta Rice dish Steamed rice mixed with kuah semur (sweet soy sauce soup), serundeng (coconut granules) and peanut granules, sliced cucumber and bean sprouts; served with variety of vegetables and meat of choice toppings, such as dendeng daging (beef jerky), omelette, anchovy, fried tempeh and tofu, rice vermicelli, fried mashed potato. It is similar to Nasi Uduk and Nasi Rames, but the rice is mixed.
Oncom
Oncom
Oncom is one of the traditional staple foods of West Javan cuisine. There are two kinds of oncom: red oncom and black oncom...

West Java Fermented food fermented Tempe.
Opor Ayam
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 ....

Nationwide Meat soup Chicken cooked in coconut milk. Traditionally consumed with ketupat during the Idul Fitri celebration in many parts of Indonesia.
Papeda Maluku and Papua Congee Sago
Sago
Sago is a starch extracted in the spongy center or pith, of various tropical palm stems, Metroxylon sagu. It is a major staple food for the lowland peoples of New Guinea and the Moluccas, where it is called saksak and sagu. A type of flour, called sago flour, is made from sago. The largest supply...

 congee, the staple food of Eastern Indonesia
Paniki
Paniki
Paniki is an exotic dish of Minahasan from North Sulawesi made from bat . Before being cooked in spices, usually the bats are burned to remove its soft hairs, then cooked in coconut milk, herbs and spices....

North Sulawesi Roasted meat, exotic food Bat
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...

 cooked in Minahasan style
Pempek
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 .-Origin:Pempek is the best-known of Palembang's dishes...

Palembang, Southern Sumatra, also nationwide Fried fishcake Fried fishcake in sweet, sour, and spicy vinegar sauce
Pepes
Pepes
Pepes is an Indonesian cooking method using banana leaf as food wrappings. The banana-leaf package containing food is secured with lidi seumat , cooked on steam, in boiled water or grilled on charcoal...

West Java, also nationwide Cooked food in banana-leaf Fish, meat, tofu, oncom, anchovy, mushroom or any other ingredients cooked inside a banana-leaf package
Perkedel Jagung Nationwide Fried dish corn
Maize
Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...

 fritters
Rawon
Rawon
Rawon or Nasi Rawon/Rawon Rice is a strong rich tasting traditional Indonesian beef black soup. Originally from Surabaya in Indonesian province of East Java...

East Java Meat soup a soup of beef. The colour is usually black due to "kluwek" used as the spice
Rendang
Rendang
Rendang is a 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...

Minangkabau, West Sumatra, Southern Sumatra, Java Meat dish chunks of beef stewed in coconut milk and chili gravy.
Roti cane Aceh, Medan, and West Sumatra or areas with Indian communities. Bread with beef curry Indian type bread with chunks of beef curry.
Sambal goreng teri Nationwide Salted anchovy Spicy salted anchovy with peanuts
Sangsang
Dinuguan
Dinuguan Dinuguan Dinuguan (also called dinardaraan in Ilocano, tid-tad in Pampanga, sinugaok in Batangas, rugodugo in Waray, and sampayna or champayna in Northern Mindanao...

Batak highlands Meat stew pork or dog meat (or more rarely, water buffalo meat), coconut milk and spices (including kaffir lime and bay leaves, coriander, shallot, garlic, chili pepper and Thai pepper, lemongrass, ginger, galangal, turmeric and andaliman
Sate or satay
Satay
Satay , or sate, is a dish of marinated, 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...

Java and Sumatra, nationwide Roasted meat skewered barbecued meat that usually had peanut sauce, or sweet soy sauce. Many type of satay has developed throughout Indonesia.
Sayur asem
Sayur Asem
Sayur asem or sayur asam is a popular Indonesian tamarind dish. Common ingredients are peanuts, young jackfruit, melinjo, bilimbi, chayote, long beans, all cooked in tamarind-based soups and sometimes enriched with beef stock. Quite often, the recipe also includes corn.The origin of the dish can be...

Nationwide Vegetable soup (Sour Dish/Tamarind Dish) clear soup with assorted vegetables such as: (melinjo) or gnetum gnemon, melinjo leaves, sweet corn
Sweetcorn
Sweet corn is a variety of maize with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel...

 (still on the cobs), young papaya, peanuts, and tamarind.
Sayur lodeh
Sayur lodeh
Sayur lodeh is a popular vegetable in coconut milk soup in Indonesian cuisine. Common ingredients are young jackfruit, eggplant, chayote, melinjo, long beans, tofu, tempeh all cooked in coconut milk soups and sometimes enrichen with chicken or beef stock....

Nationwide Vegetable soup (Mixed Vegetables in Coconut Milk Stew)
Sayur Nganten Betawi and West Java Vegetable soup soup made of trubuk
Sugarcane
Sugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...

 stem
Semur
Semur (Indonesian stew)
Semur is a type of meat stew that is processed in thick brown gravy commonly found in Indonesian cuisine. The main material used in semur gravy is shallots, onions, garlic, kecap manis , nutmeg and cloves...

Nationwide Stew Stew made of kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and spices, usually uses beef.
Soto
Soto (food)
Soto, sroto, tauto or coto is a common dish, found in many regional variations of Indonesian cuisine. It is a traditional soup mainly composed of broth, meat and vegetables. There is no clear definition of what makes a soto, but normally many traditional soups are called soto, whereas foreign and...

 or sroto or coto
Nationwide Meat soup a soup of chicken or beef. Many variants of soto has developed across Indonesia. Many types of soto have the color of yellow because turmeric is added as one of the ingredients.
Tekwan
Tekwan
Tekwan is a fish soup typical of Palembang, Indonesia. The fish cakes are made from the dough of fish and tapioca similar to pempek. The fish cake is cut in small sizes and presented in shrimp broth with a distinctive flavor, served with rice vermicelli, mushrooms, sliced jicama, and sprinkled with...

Palembang, Southern Sumatra Fishcake soup a soup of fishcake with bangkoang and mushroom.
Tempe
Tempeh
Tempeh , or tempe , is a traditional soy product originally from Indonesia. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form, similar to a very firm vegetarian burger patty...

Nationwide Fermented food can be cooked into various dishes; such as tempe bacem, tempe goreng, tempe orek, tumis tempe.
Tinutuan
Tinutuan
Tinutuan or bubur manado or manadonese porridge is a rice porridge mixed with various vegetables such as spinach, kangkung, corn, pumpkin and sweet potato or cassava....

 or Bubur Manado
Manado, North Sulawesi Rice porridge (congee) with vegetables Rice porridge mixed with various vegetables such as spinach, kangkung, corn, and sweet potato or cassava.
Tongseng
Tongseng
Tongseng is goat meat or beef stew dishes in curry-like soup with vegetables and kecap manis . Originally from Surakarta in Indonesian province of Central Java....

Solo, Central Java Meat soup Goat meat or beef stew dishes in curry-like soup with vegetables and kecap manis (sweet soy sauce).
Tumis Kangkung Java Vegetarian dish Stir fry kangkung vegetable
Tumpeng
Tumpeng
Tumpeng is a cone-shaped rice dish like mountain with its side dishes . Traditionally featured in the slamatan ceremony, the cone shape of rice is made by using cone-shaped weaved bamboo container...

Java Rice dish cone shaped rice surrounded with assorted dishes)
Tumpang Java similar to gulai, but rotten tempeh
Tempeh
Tempeh , or tempe , is a traditional soy product originally from Indonesia. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form, similar to a very firm vegetarian burger patty...

 is used as seasoning instead of turmeric. This dish can be found in Central and western part of East Java.

Savoury Snacks

Name Image Region Type Description
Arem-arem Java Rice cake similar like lontong, but flavored with coconut milk, and stuffed with cooked ground meat, or tahu/tofu and tempeh
Asinan Betawi Jakarta Vegetarian food
Bakcang
Zongzi
Zongzi is a traditional Chinese food, made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. They are cooked by steaming or boiling. Laotians, Thais, and Cambodians also have similar traditional dishes. In the Western world, they are also known as rice...

Chinese Indonesian Rice cake Rice cake filled with meats, sometimes beans and mushroom, wrapped in bamboo leafs
Cimol Bandung, West Java a small snack made from rounded tapioca flour doughs which is then fried. Cimol comes from Banten, West Java.
Emping Nationwide Crakers crackers made from flattened Gnemon/Belinjo
Gnetum gnemon
Gnetum gnemon is a species of Gnetum native to southeast Asia and the western Pacific Ocean islands, from Assam south and east through Indonesia and Malaysia to the Philippines and Fiji...

 seeds
Kerak Telor
Kerak Telor
Kerak telor is a Betawi traditional spicy omelette dish in Indonesian cuisine. It is made from glutinous rice cooked with egg and served with serundeng , fried shallots and dried shrimp topping. It is considered as a snack and not as a main dish...

Jakarta Egg dish It is made from chicken or duck egg made into omelette which is mixed with rice and spice, it is served with coconut granules.
Kerupuk Nationwide crackers, crisp deep fried crisps made from mainly tapioca flour, with added ingredients, such as prawn, fish, or garlic, and even ox/cow skin. It comes in different shapes and colors.
Lemper
Lemper
Lemper is an Indonesian dish made of sticky rice filled with chicken, fish or abon . The meat filling is rolled inside the rice, in a fashion similar to an egg roll; this is in turn rolled and wrapped inside a banana leaf or tinfoil to make a packet ready for serving...

Java Rice cake made from glutinous rice
Glutinous rice
Glutinous rice is a type of short-grained Asian rice that is especially sticky when cooked. It is called glutinous Glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa or Oryza glutinosa; also called sticky rice, sweet rice, waxy rice, botan rice, biroin chal, mochi rice, and pearl rice, and pulut) is a...

 and filled usually with chicken.
Lumpia Semarang Semarang, Central Java Spring roll Semarang style spring roll, made mainly from cooked bamboo shoots and chicken/prawn. Sometimes boiled quail egg is added. It is eaten with a dipping sauce made from coconut sugar, vinegar and garlic.
Martabak Nationwide Egg dish or pancake Indonesian's version of Murtabak, sometimes filled with beef and scallions, or shreds of peanut and chocolate
Mendoan Central Java deep fried battered tempeh, cooked lightly in a short time and resulted in limp texture.
Otak-otak
Otak-otak
Otak-otak is a cake made of fish meat and spices. It is widely known across Southeast Asia, where it is traditionally served fresh, wrapped inside a banana leaf, as well as in many Asian stores internationally - being sold as frozen food and even canned food.-Distribution:Otak-otak is found in...

Nationwide Fishcake usually made from Spanish mackarel fish paste or Milkfish, spiced and wrapped in banana leaves, then grilled and served with peanut sauce
Panada
Panada
Panada is a bread soup composed of leftover bread, eggs, beef broth and Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese.Panada soup is typical of the northeastern part of Italy. This soup has its origin as an inexpensive meal in the poor areas of the countryside...

Manado, North Sulawesi Bread fried bread filled with spicy tuna
Pastel
Pastel
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation....

Nationwide Fried dumpling fried flour dumpling filled with vegetables and meat
Risoles Nationwide Spring roll fried rolls with breadcrumbs filled with vegetables and meat
Rujak Nationwide Fruit or vegetable salad There are many kinds of rujak, the most common one is Rujak Buah (fruit rujak). Rujak petis is a popular dish from Surabaya
Surabaya
Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million , and the capital of the province of East Java...

, a mixture of vegetables, tofu, tempeh with black fish paste sauce. Rujak manis, is a mixture of fruit covered with sweet and spicy coconut sugar sauce, sometimes ground peanut is also added to the sauce.
Pangsit Goreng Indonesian Chinese Wonton
Wonton
Not to be confused with WantonA wonton is a type of dumpling commonly found in a number of Chinese cuisines.-Filling:...

 dish
Fried wonton
Wonton
Not to be confused with WantonA wonton is a type of dumpling commonly found in a number of Chinese cuisines.-Filling:...

 filled with chicken or shrimp with sweet and sour sauce.
Pempek
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 .-Origin:Pempek is the best-known of Palembang's dishes...

Palembang, Southern Sumatra area Fishcake a signature dish
Signature dish
A signature dish is a recipe that identifies an individual chef. Ideally it should be unique and allow an informed gastronome to name the chef in a blind tasting. It can be thought of as the culinary equivalent of an artist finding their own style, or an author finding their own voice...

 of Palembang
Palembang
Palembang is the capital city of the South Sumatra province in Indonesia. Palembang is one of the oldest cities in Indonesia, and has a history of being a capital of a maritime empire. Located on the Musi River banks on the east coast of southern Sumatra island, it has an area of 400.61 square...

. Fish paste mixed with flour and then deep fried
Deep frying
Deep frying is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot oil or fat. This is normally performed with a deep fryer or chip pan; industrially, a pressure fryer or vacuum fryer may be used....

. Served with cucumber, noodles or bihun, as in ketoprak , and thin sauce made from tamarind, vinegar and pounded dried shrimp.
Siomay
Siomay
Siomay , is an Indonesian steamed fish dumpling with vegetables served in peanut sauce. It is derived from Chinese Shumai. It is considered a light meal that is similar to the Chinese Dim Sum, but is cone shaped. It is traditionally made from tenggiri fish meat...

Indonesian Chinese, West Java Fishcake and dumpling a light meal which has a similar form to Chinese Dim Sum
Dim sum
Dim sum refers to a style of Chinese food prepared as small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates...

, shaped like ice cream cone except the bottom is flat and made traditionally from mackerel fish meat served with peanut sauce, sometimes added with key lime and/or soy sauce. Sometimes the main ingredient can be made from prawn or other fish, siomay could also be served with steamed chicken eggs, potatoes, cabbage or bitter gourd
Batagor
Batagor
Batagor is Sundanese Indonesian fried fish dumplings served with peanut sauce. It is traditionally made from tenggiri fish meat. Sometimes other types of seafood such as tuna, mackerel, and prawn also can be used to make batagor...

West Java Fishcake and dumpling (batagor is actually an abbreviation of BAkso TAhu GOReng (which literally means fried tofu and meatballs), it's a variant of the siomay in which the siomay was deep-fried
Serabi/Surabi Nationwide Pancake An Indonesian snack that is made from rice flour with coconut milk or just plain shredded coconut as an emulsifier. Do keep in mind that each province in Indonesia has varying Srabi recipes corresponding to local tastes and available ingredients.
Tahu Aci & Tahu Pletok Tegal, Central Java Tofu and soy food a small snack made from tofu and flour. Its come from Tegal
Tegal
Tegal is the largest city in the Tegal Regency, Indonesia. It is situated on the north coast of Central Java, about from Semarang, capital of Central Java....

, Central Java
Tahu Gejrot Cirebon, West Java Tofu and soy food deep fried tofu, served with a sauce made from coconut sugar, sweet soy sauce/kecap manis, chili, garlic and shallot
Tahu Gunting Surabaya, East Java Tofu and soy food deep fried tofu cutted with scissors, served with a sauce made from rice flour, peanuts and chili
Tahu sumedang
Tahu sumedang
Tahu sumedang or Tahu bunkeng is Sundanese deep fried tofu from Sumedang, West Java.-History:In 1917, a Chinese Indonesian Ong Kino made the first tofu in Sumedang, West Java. After returning to China, he bequeathed his business to his son, Ong Bun Keng. From 1970 until 1980 the business advanced....

Sumedang, West Java Tofu and soy food deep fried tofu, served with sweet soy sauce/kecap manis and chili
Tempeh Bacem Java Soy food tempeh stewed in coconut sugar and spices, then deep fried. It has sweet and savory flavor.
Terang Bulan
Murtabak
Martabak or murtabak, also mutabbaq, is a stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread which is commonly found in Saudi Arabia , Yemen, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and Brunei. Depending on the location, the name and ingredients can significantly vary...

Bangka Belitung, Sumatra, nationwide Pastry Originally a Chinese snack, but nowadays it is labelled as murtabak.
Kembang Tahu Indonesian Chinese Tofu and soy food Soft tofu with sweet ginger sauce
Tahu
Tofu
is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is part of East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and others. There are many different varieties of tofu, including fresh tofu and tofu...

Indonesian Chinese, nationwide Tofu and soy food Chinese origin, basically a soy milk cheese. It can be fried, stir fried, stewed, as soup ingredient, even also for sweets such as ice cream or vegetarian fruit dessert/pudding.

Sweet Desserts

Name Image Region Type Description
Angsle Java a mix of melinjo
Gnetum gnemon
Gnetum gnemon is a species of Gnetum native to southeast Asia and the western Pacific Ocean islands, from Assam south and east through Indonesia and Malaysia to the Philippines and Fiji...

, glutinous rice, peanut, sago pearl, white bread, coconut milk, screwpine leaf, ginger and milk.
Bakpia Pathok
Bakpia Pathok
Bakpia Pathok(Chinese:肉饼)are small round-shaped Indonesian pastries, usually stuffed with mung beans , but have recently come in other fillings as well...

Yogyakarta Bean cake a small patty of baked pastry filled with sweet mung bean paste.
Brem
Brem
Brem is the traditional fermented food or fermented beverage from Indonesia. There are two types of brem, brem cake that usually eaten as snack from Madiun and Wonogiri, and brem beverage made of rice wine from Bali and Nusa Tenggara, but mostly known from Bali...

 (solid snack)
Madiun Java Sweet snack Brem is made from fermented tape
Tapai
Tapai or tape , sometimes referred to as peuyeum , is a traditional fermented food found throughout much of East- and Southeast Asia. It is a sweet or sour alcoholic paste...

. Brem is a special snack from Madiun, East Java. The liquid version is light alcoholic beverage also called Brem originated from Bali.
Bubur Candil glutinous rice cake ball stewed in gula jawa (palm sugar), served with thick coconut milk.
Bubur Kacang Hijau Nationwide green beans porridge, sweetened with sugar, and served with thick coconut milk
Bubur Ketan Hitam Nationwide black glutinous rice porridge, sweetened with sugar, and served with thick coconut milk
Cendil Java Sweet rice and coconut cake rice flour-based small glutinous cake, sweetened with sugar, moulded and colored. Served with fresh grated coconut
Dodol
Dodol
Dodol is a toffee-like sweet food delicacy popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines especially in the Ilocos Region in Luzon and in the Lanao provinces of Mindanao, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Burma, where it is called mont kalama. It is also popular among the Roman Catholics from the west coastal...

Java Sweets rice flour-based small glutinous sweets, sweetened with coconut sugar, moulded and colored. Often add fruit scent and taste such as durian
Geplak
Geplak
Geplak is a sweet snack made from equal parts coarsely grated coconut and sugar, in equal amounts, often colored brightly. Some versions include rice flour, citrus leaves and/or waluh fruit. Geplak is mainly produced in Bantul, a city in Yogyakarta, Indonesia....

sweet made from sugar and grated coconut
Gethuk Java cassava paste, sweetened with sugar and moulded in a special tools that it resembles noodles. Often served with fresh grated coconut
Klepon
Klepon
Klepon is a traditional rice cake, popular in Indonesia and Malaysia. It is a boiled rice cake, stuffed with liquid gula jawa , and rolled in grated coconut. Klepon is green because it is flavored with a paste made from the pandan or dracaena plant whose leaves are used widely in South East Asian...

Nationwide glutinous rice cake balls, usually colored and flavored with pandan leaves, which gives it an attractive green color and unique aroma, filled with coconut sugar. The balls are boiled, and rolled in grated coconut. In other parts of Indonesia such as Sumatra, klepon is called onde-onde
Kolak
Kolak
Kolak or Kolek is an Indonesian dessert made with palm sugar and coconut milk, with pandanus leaf for flavour. In some versions, mung beans are also used, and cooked till soft. Banana may be added to this base, the dish then being known as kolek pisang...

Nationwide a mix of sweet potato, cassava, banana, pumpkin, diced in bite size pieces and stewed in coconut milk and palm sugar. Sometimes vanilla or ginger are added for extra flavor.
Klepon
Klepon
Klepon is a traditional rice cake, popular in Indonesia and Malaysia. It is a boiled rice cake, stuffed with liquid gula jawa , and rolled in grated coconut. Klepon is green because it is flavored with a paste made from the pandan or dracaena plant whose leaves are used widely in South East Asian...

Nationwide sweet coconut cake boiled rice cake, stuffed with coconut sugar, and rolled in fresh grated coconut. It is flavored with pandan leaves juice.
Kue Bandung Bandung, West Java area
Kue putu Nationwide sweet coconut cake similar to klepon, except that it's cylindrical in shape whilst klepon is spherical.
Lapis Legit Nationwide a spiced layered cake, made mainly of egg yolk, flour and margarine/butter.
Lupis (food)
Lupis (food)
Lupis is a traditional food from Indonesia. It is a sweet cake made of glutinous rice. It can be sweetened further with shredded coconut topped with a thick palm sugar syrup....

glutinous rice cake wrapped and cooked in banana leaves, served with grated coconut and drizzled with thick coconut sugar syrup.
Mochi
Mochi
Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice pounded into paste and molded into shape. In Japan it is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki. While also eaten year-round, mochi is a traditional food for the Japanese New Year and is commonly sold and eaten during that time...

Chinese and Japanese Indonesian sweet rice cake Rice flour based cake filled with peanuts paste, sometimes sprinkled with sesame seeds
Nagasari
Nagasari
Nagasari is a steamed cake made from flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with bananas. It is usually wrapped in banana leaves before being steamed, or prepared with pandan that gives it aroma. It is commonly eaten as a snack in Indonesia....

steamed rice cake wrapped in banana leaves, and stuffed with banana.
Onde-onde Java glutinous rice cake balls, filled with sweet green beans paste, and rolled in sesame seed and then fried.
Paklempung
Pisang Goreng
Pisang goreng
Pisang goreng is a snack food mostly found throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. In Singapore and some parts of Malaysia it is known as "goreng pisang" . It is consumed as a snack in the morning and afternoon...

Nationwide (Fried Banana), battered and deep fried banana/plantain
Tape Uli Java
Wingko babad Semarang, Central Java Coconut cake sweet baked coconut snack

Drinks

Name Image Region Type Description
Bajigur
Bajigur
Bajigur is a hot and sweet beverage native to the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. The main ingredients are coconut milk and Aren sugar; usually to add taste, a small amount of ginger, salt and vanilla powder are added....

West Java Coconut sugar and coconut milk hot drink
Bandrek
Bandrek
Bandrek is a traditional hot, sweet and spicy beverage native to Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia. The Sundanese people who live in the highland cool climate prefer to consume bandrek to warm themselves at night and during cold weather...

West Java Hot sweet drink Coconut sugar and ginger hot drink
Brem
Brem
Brem is the traditional fermented food or fermented beverage from Indonesia. There are two types of brem, brem cake that usually eaten as snack from Madiun and Wonogiri, and brem beverage made of rice wine from Bali and Nusa Tenggara, but mostly known from Bali...

 (liquid beverage)
Bali Sweet alcoholic beverage Brem is made from fermented tape
Tapai
Tapai or tape , sometimes referred to as peuyeum , is a traditional fermented food found throughout much of East- and Southeast Asia. It is a sweet or sour alcoholic paste...

. Brem is a special beverage from Bali. Usually brem also present in solid form as snacks.
Wedang Jahe
Wedang Jahe
Wedang Jahe is Indonesian for ginger tea. Although devoid of any caffeine content, it's often served and enjoyed like tea.It is made from ginger and palm sugar/rock sugar. Indonesians also use ground ginger root, called jahe, as a common ingredient in local recipes....

Central Java Ginger tea/drink Fresh ginger juice mixed with palm or rock sugar and served hot
Cendol
Cendol
Cendol is a traditional dessert originating from South East Asia which is still popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , Singapore, Vietnam, and Southern Thailand where it is called lortchorng singapore ลอดช่องสิงคโปร์).-Etymology:There is popular belief in Indonesia that the name "cendol" is...

Nationwide
Cincau Nationwide Jelly drink Grass jelly and shredded ice with sugar or syrup
Dadiah
Dadiah
Dadih , a traditional fermented milk of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is made by pouring fresh raw unheated buffalo milk into a bamboo tube capped with a banana leaf, and allowing it to ferment spontaneously at room temperature for two days....

West Sumatra Yoghurt Traditional West Sumatran water buffalo milk yoghurt
Es teler
Es teler
Es teler is a fruit cocktail in Indonesia. Avocado, young coconut, cincau, jackfruit and other fruits are served with coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk, Pandanus amaryllifolius leaf , sugar and a tiny amount of salt.This concoction, created by Murniati Widjaja, won a competition in 1982 to...

Nationwide a mixed of avocado, young coconut, jack fruit, shredded iced with sweet condensed milk
Es Campur Nationwide
Es dawet Banjarnegara, Central Java
Jahe Telor a drink that made of ginger and raw egg), with some variants colloquially called STMJ (Susu Telor Madu Jahe/milk egg honey ginger)
Kopi Luwak
Kopi Luwak
Kopi luwak , or civet coffee, is one of the world's most expensive and low-production varieties of coffee. It is made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract. A civet eats the berries for their...

Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara Coffee beverage Coffee beverage made of beans that already digested by palm civet
Legen
Legen
Legen is a settlement in the Slovenj Gradec municipality in northern Slovenia. It lies in the valley of the Barbarski potok stream and the surrounding Pohorje hills to the east of Slovenj Gradec. The area was traditionally part of Styria...

East Java a drink made of Siwalan palm
Borassus flabellifer
Borassus flabellifer, the Asian Palmyra palm, Toddy palm, Sugar palm, or Cambodian palm, is native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone...

 sap.
Sekoteng Chinese Indonesian, Nationwide Hot ginger drink a hot drink made of ginger, sugar and milk with peanuts, slices of bread, and pacar cina
Serbat
Liang Teh Chinese Indonesian, Medan, North Sumatra Sweet iced tea
Teh botol
Teh botol
Teh botol is a popular Indonesian drink produced by the company Sosro and is sold worldwide. Teh botol literally means bottled tea in Indonesian. It is a sweetened jasmine tea and it is usually served cold...

Nationwide Bottled Tea)
Teh poci Nationwide Tea beverage hot tea served in clay teapot with large cristalized sugar
Teh Talua
Teh Talua
Teh Talua or Teh Telor is a beverage from West Sumatra that is popular throughout the region. Its ingredients are tea, sugar, egg yolk and calamondin....

West Sumatra Mixed of hot tea and blended egg yolk)
Wedhang asele famous drink that comes from [Surakarta]
Wedhang rondhe Yogyakarta

Sauces and condiments

Name Image Region Type Description
Acar
Acar
Acar is a type of pickling made in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is made from different vegetables such as yardlong beans, carrots and cabbage which are pickled in vinegar and dried chillies. The vegetables are then tossed in ground peanuts....

Nationwide pickles various chopped vegetables in vinegar
Bawang goreng Nationwide spinkle dry condiments crispy fried shallots sprinkled upon various dishes to gave aroma and crispy texture
Kecap manis and kecap asin Nationwide sauce soy sauce
Soy sauce
Soy sauce is a condiment produced by fermenting soybeans with Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae molds, along with water and salt...

s, available in sweet and salty
Pecel
Pecel
Pecel is an Indonesian sauce based on chillies, peanuts, tamarind and coconut sugar. It is commonly served over boiled vegetables. It is similar to the sauce used in Gado-gado.-External links:*...

Java sauce a mixture of vegetables and traditional cracker with spicy peanut paste. Madiun and blitar in East Java is popular for their pecel
Sambal
Sambal
Sambal is a chili based sauce which is normally used as a condiment. Sambals are popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as in the Netherlands and in Suriname through Javanese influence. It is typically made from a variety of chili peppers and is...

Nationwide sauce chili sauce with rich variants across Indonesia, among other uses shrimp paste
Shrimp paste
Shrimp paste or shrimp sauce, is a common ingredient used in Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cuisine. It is known as terasi in Indonesian, ngapi in Burmese, kapi in Thai, Khmer and Lao language, belacan in Malay, mắm ruốc, mắm tép and mắm tôm in...

Serundeng
Serundeng
Serundeng is an Indonesian sauteed grated coconut that is often used as a side dish to accompany rice. It is made primarily of grated coconut. First spices and seasonings like onions, chili peppers, garlic, onion, coriander, turmeric, sugar, tamarind, bay leaves , lime leaves , and galangal are...

Java spinkle dry condiments grated coconut
Coconut
The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae . It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which is not a botanical nut. The spelling cocoanut is an old-fashioned form of the word...

 sauteed and spiced, could be served with beef, sprinkled on soto, or eaten with sticky rice
Tumpang Java sauce (Tumpang or sambal tumpang is a typical food from Kediri, East Java
Kediri, East Java
Kediri is an Indonesian city, located near the Brantas River in the province of East Java on the island of Java.Archaeological artefacts discovered in 2007 appeared to indicate that the region around Kediri may have been the location of the Kediri kingdom, a Hindu kingdom in the 11th century.The...

 Kediri]], East Java
East Java
East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and islands to its east and to its north East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and...

 East Java].Sambal tumpang has been made of rotten tempeh or tempeh bosok is mixed and cooked with various spices such as chilli or chili, onion, salt and other spices)

Spices

  • Alpinia galanga
    Alpinia galanga
    Alpinia galanga, a plant in the ginger family, is an herb used in cooking, especially in Indonesian cuisine and Thai cuisine. It is one of four plants known as galangal, and is differentiated from the others with the common name greater galangal...

     (Lengkuas/Laos)
  • Anise
    Anise
    Anise , Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia. Its flavor resembles that of liquorice, fennel, and tarragon.- Biology :...

     (Adas Manis)
  • Candlenut
    Candlenut
    Aleurites moluccana, the Candlenut, is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, also known as Candleberry, Indian walnut, Kemiri, Varnish tree, Nuez de la India, Buah keras or Kukui nut tree....

    s (Kemiri)
  • Cardamom
    Cardamom
    Cardamom refers to several plants of the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the ginger family Zingiberaceae. Both genera are native to India and Bhutan; they are recognised by their small seed pod, triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin papery outer shell and small black seeds...

     (Kapulaga)
  • Chili
    Chili pepper
    Chili pepper is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The term in British English and in Australia, New Zealand, India, Malaysia and other Asian countries is just chilli without pepper.Chili peppers originated in the Americas...

     (Cabai)
  • Cinnamon
    Cinnamon
    Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods...

     (Kayu Manis)
  • Coriander
    Coriander
    Coriander is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. Coriander is native to southern Europe and North Africa to southwestern Asia. It is a soft, hairless plant growing to tall. The leaves are variable in shape, broadly lobed at the base of the plant, and slender and feathery higher on the...

     seeds (Ketumbar)
  • Cumin
    Cumin
    Cumin is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to India. Its seeds are used in the cuisines of many different cultures, in both whole and ground form.-Etymology:...

     seeds (Jinten)
  • Fennel
    Fennel
    Fennel is a plant species in the genus Foeniculum . It is a member of the family Apiaceae . It is a hardy, perennial, umbelliferous herb, with yellow flowers and feathery leaves...

     (Adas)
  • Fingerroot (Temu Kunci)
  • Fingerroot (Temu Kunci)
  • Galangal
    Galangal
    Galangal is a rhizome of plants of the genus Alpinia or Kaempferia in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, with culinary and medicinal uses originated from Indonesia...

     (Lengkuas)
  • Garcinia atroviridis
    Garcinia atroviridis
    Garcinia atroviridis, known as Asam Gelugur, asam gelugo, or asam keping in Malay, is a large rainforest tree native to peninsular Malaysia. This species grows wild throughout peninsular Malaysia but is also widely cultivated, especially in the northern states, owing to its economic and medicinal...

     (Asam Gelugur)
  • Ginger Root seeds (Jahe)
  • Ginger
    Ginger
    Ginger is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family . Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal....

     (Jahe)
  • Kaempferia galanga
    Kaempferia galanga
    Kaempferia galanga, commonly known as kencur, aromatic ginger, sand ginger, cutcherry or resurrection lily, is a monocotyledonous plant in the ginger family. It is found primarily in open areas in Indonesia, southern China, Taiwan, Cambodia and India, but is also widely cultivated throughout...

     (Kencur)
  • Tamarind
    Tamarind
    Tamarind is a tree in the family Fabaceae. The genus Tamarindus is monotypic .-Origin:...

     seeds (Asam)
  • Turmeric
    Turmeric
    Turmeric is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It is native to tropical South Asia and needs temperatures between 20 °C and 30 °C and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive...

     (Kunyit)
  • Zingiber zerumbet
    Zingiber zerumbet
    Zingiber zerumbet Sm., also known as the Shampoo Ginger, is a vigorous ginger with leafy stems growing to about 1.2 m tall. It is found in many tropical countries. The rhizomes of Z...

     (Lempuyang)

Herbs

  • Kaffir lime
    Kaffir lime
    The kaffir lime, Citrus × hystrix, Rutaceae), is also known as combava, kieffer lime, limau purut, jeruk purut or makrut lime,...

     Leaves (daun jeruk purut)
  • Lemongrass (serai)
  • Pandan
    Pandanus amaryllifolius
    Pandanus amaryllifolius is a tropical plant in the screwpine genus which is known commonly as pandan and is used widely in Southeast Asian cooking as a flavoring. The plant is rare in the wild but is widely cultivated. It is an upright green plant with fan-shaped sprays of long, narrow, bladelike...

     (Pandanus amaryllifolius, a variety of Pandanus
    Pandanus
    Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 600 known species. They are numerous palmlike dioecious trees and shrubs native of the Old World tropics and subtropics. They are classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae.-Overview:...

    , used to add a distinct aroma to some dishes and desserts)
  • Indonesian bay leaves
    Bay leaf
    Bay leaf refers to the aromatic leaf of the bay laurel . Fresh or dried bay leaves are used in cooking for their distinctive flavor and fragrance. The leaves are often used to flavor soups, stews, braises and pâtés in Mediterranean cuisine...

     (Daun Salam)
  • Lemon Basil
    Basil
    Basil, or Sweet Basil, is a common name for the culinary herb Ocimum basilicum , of the family Lamiaceae , sometimes known as Saint Joseph's Wort in some English-speaking countries....

     (kemangi)
  • Lime Leaves (daun jeruk)

Fruits

  • Baccaurea racemosa - Menteng
  • Banana
    Banana
    Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....

     - Pisang
  • Bouea macrophylla
    Bouea macrophylla
    Bouea macrophylla is a tropical fruit tree native to Southeast Asia. The tree belongs to the family Anacardiaceae, and is related to the mango.-Description:The evergreen tree grows to height of 25 meters...

     - Gandaria
  • Star Fruit
    Carambola
    Carambola, also known as starfruit, is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The fruit is a popular food throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific and parts of East Asia...

     - Belimbing
  • Coconut
    Coconut
    The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae . It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which is not a botanical nut. The spelling cocoanut is an old-fashioned form of the word...

     - Kelapa
  • Duku-Duku
  • Durian
    Durian
    The durian is the fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio and the Malvaceae family . Widely known and revered in southeast Asia as the "king of fruits", the durian is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk...

    -Durian
  • Guava
    Guava
    Guavas are plants in the myrtle family genus Psidium , which contains about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees. They are native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America...

     - Jambu batu
  • Jackfruit
    Jackfruit
    The jackfruit is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family . It is native to parts of Southern and Southeast Asia. It is the national fruit of Bangladesh, . The jackfruit tree is believed to be indigenous to the southwestern rain forests of India...

     - Nangka / Gudeg
    Gudeg
    Gudeg is a traditional food from Yogyakarta and Central Java, Indonesia which is made from young Nangka 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...

  • Kaffir lime
    Kaffir lime
    The kaffir lime, Citrus × hystrix, Rutaceae), is also known as combava, kieffer lime, limau purut, jeruk purut or makrut lime,...

     -Jeruk Obat / Jeruk Limau
  • Lime
    Lime (fruit)
    Lime is a term referring to a number of different citrus fruits, both species and hybrids, which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3–6 cm in diameter, and containing sour and acidic pulp. Limes are a good source of vitamin C. Limes are often used to accent the flavors of foods and...

     - Jeruk Nipis
  • Longan
    Longan
    Dimocarpus longan, commonly known as the longan, is a tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone known for its edible fruit.-Vernacular names:The fruit is known as longan or longyan in English...

     - Kelengkeng
  • Lychee
    Lychee
    The lychee is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to Southern China and Southeast Asia, and now cultivated in many parts of the world...

     - Leci
  • Mango
    Mango
    The mango is a fleshy stone fruit belonging to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is native to India from where it spread all over the world. It is also the most cultivated fruit of the tropical world. While...

     - Mangga
  • Mangosteen
    Mangosteen
    The purple mangosteen , colloquially known simply as mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. The tree grows from 7 to 25 m tall...

     - Manggis
  • Orange
    Orange (fruit)
    An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....

     - Jeruk Manis
  • Otaheite apple - Kedongdong
  • Papaya
    Papaya
    The papaya , papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae...

     - Pepaya
  • Pineapple
    Pineapple
    Pineapple is the common name for a tropical plant and its edible fruit, which is actually a multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries. It was given the name pineapple due to its resemblance to a pine cone. The pineapple is by far the most economically important plant in the Bromeliaceae...

     - Nanas
  • Pomelo
    Pomelo
    The pomelo is a citrus fruit native to Southeast Asia. It is usually pale green to yellow when ripe, with sweet white flesh and very thick albedo . It is the largest citrus fruit, 15–25 cm in diameter, and usually weighing 1–2 kg...

     - Jeruk Bali
  • Rambutan
    Rambutan
    The rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae, and the fruit of this tree. It is native to Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, although its precise natural distribution is unknown. It is closely related to several...

    -Rambutan
  • Snake Fruit
    Salak
    Salak is a species of palm tree native to Indonesia. It is a very short-stemmed palm, with leaves up to long; each leaf has a 2-metre long petiole with spines up to long, and numerous leaflets....

     - Salak
  • Sawo - Sawo
  • Soursop
    Soursop
    The Soursop is tripti broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree native to Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America, Colombia and Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Soursop is also native to sub-Saharan African countries that lie within the tropics. Today, it is also grown in some areas...

     - Sirsak
  • Water apple - Jambu air
  • Watermelon
    Watermelon
    Watermelon is a vine-like flowering plant originally from southern Africa. Its fruit, which is also called watermelon, is a special kind referred to by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind and fleshy center...

     - Semangka

See also

  • Cuisine of Indonesia
    Cuisine of Indonesia
    Indonesian cuisine is diverse, in part because Indonesia is composed of approximately 6,000 populated islands. Many regional cuisines exist, often based upon cultural and foreign influences. Indonesian cuisine varies greatly by region and has many different influences...

  • Javanese cuisine
    Javanese cuisine
    Javanese cuisine is the cuisine of Javanese people. In wider sense, Javanese cuisine might also refer to the cuisine of the whole people of Java Island, Indonesia; which also include Sundanese in West Java, Betawi people in Jakarta and Madurese on Madura Island off East Java...

  • Minangkabau cuisine

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