Food & Drink
Indonesian Dishes
Traditional dishes and foods from Indonesian cuisine.
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Name↕ | Image↕ | Origin/Popularity↕ | Type↕ | Description↕ |
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| Arsik | Batak, North Sumatra | Spicy fish | Mandailing-style spiced carp with torch ginger and andaliman. | |
| Ayam bakar | Nationwide | Chicken dish (grilled chicken) | Charcoal-grilled spiced chicken. | |
| Ayam bumbu rujak | Javanese | Chicken dish | Grilled or stir-fried chicken served with a spicy-sweet Rujak sauce. | |
| Ayam cincane | Kalimantan | Chicken dish | Grilled chicken with spices. | |
| Ayam geprek | Javanese | Chicken dish (fried chicken) | Crispy battered fried chicken crushed and mixed with hot and spicy sambal. | |
| Ayam goreng | Nationwide | Chicken dish (fried chicken) | Spiced chicken fried in coconut oil. | |
| Ayam goreng kalasan | Kalasan, Yogyakarta | Chicken dish (fried chicken) | Fried free-range chicken with kremes (crispy fried granules). | |
| Ayam kecap | Java | Chicken dish | Chicken simmered or braised in sweet soy sauce. | |
| Ayam kodok | Nationwide | Chicken dish | A stuffed and roasted chicken. Prepared by deboning a chicken, and then stuffing it with a mixture of seasoned meat and vegetables, and a hard boiled egg. The chicken is then optionally steamed before it is roasted. Usually served during Christmas. | |
| Ayam pansuh | Kalimantan | Chicken dish | A chicken meat cooked in bamboo stalk, filled with water (which will later be the soup), seasonings and covered with tapioca leaves from the cassava plant. | |
| Ayam penyet | Javanese | Chicken dish (fried chicken) | Fried chicken dish consisting of fried chicken that is smashed with the pestle against mortar to make it softer, served with sambal, slices of cucumbers, fried tofu and tempeh. | |
| Ayam percik | Malay | Chicken dish (grilled chicken) | Grilled chicken with a spicy, curry-like sauce. | |
| Ayam pop | Minangkabau | Chicken dish | Padang-style skinless pale fried chicken, served with distinct sambal. | |
| Ayam rica-rica | Minahasan | Chicken dish | Chicken dish served with rica-rica condiment. | |
| Ayam taliwang | Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara | Chicken dish (roasted chicken) | Grilled or fried chicken with a sambal sauce. | |
| Ayam tandori | Indian Indonesian | Chicken dish (roasted chicken) | Roasted chicken marinated in yoghurt and spices in a tandoor. | |
| Ayam tangkap | Aceh | Chicken dish | Traditional fried chicken served with leaves such as temurui leaves and pandan leaves that are roughly chopped and fried crispy. | |
| Babi guling | Bali and Minahasa | Roasted meat | Balinese cuisine-style roast pork; comparable to Hawaiian luau-style pig. In Minahasa, North Sulawesi it is called babi putar. | |
| Babi kecap | Chinese Indonesian | Braised meat | Braised pork with sweet soy sauce. | |
| Babi panggang | Batak, Balinese, and Indo | Roasted pork | Pork roasted in light spices and chopped, usually served with Batak style sambal and sayur daun singkong (cassava leaf vegetables). | |
| Bandeng presto | Javanese | Seafood | A pressure cooked milkfish that soften the finer fish bones. The pressure cooking also help the spices to seep into the flesh of milkfish perfectly. | |
| Bebek goreng | Nationwide, especially popular in East Java and Bali | Fried duck | Traditional seasoned fried duck, served with sambal hot and spicy chili paste. | |
| Betutu | Bali and West Nusa Tenggara | Roasted poultry | Poultry or duck filled with spicy seasonings, roasted usually for at least 8 hours. | |
| Bistik jawa | Javanese | Beefsteak | Javanese beef steak, a European-influenced dish. The dish consists of beef tenderloin braised with sweet soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, garlic, nutmeg, and black pepper. It is usually served with carrots, string beans, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, fried potatoes, and sweet-and-sour mayonnaise on the side. This dish similar to selat solo. | |
| Botok or bobotok | Java | Shredded coconut | Made from shredded coconut flesh which has been squeezed of its coconut milk, often mix with other ingredients such as vegetables or fish, and wrapped in banana leaf and steamed. | |
| Botok tawon | Banyuwangi, East Java | Insect dish | A type of botok that made from bee larvae. | |
| Brengkes tempoyak iwak lais | Palembang | Fish dish | Lais fish seasoned with tempoyak fermented durian sauce, cooked inside banana package. | |
| Buntil | Java | Fish dish | Grated coconut mixed with anchovies and spices, wrapped in papaya, cassava, or taro leaves, then boiled in coconut milk and spice. | |
| Burgo | Palembang, South Sumatra | Pancake | A folded rice pancake served in savoury whitish coconut milk-based soup. | |
| Cakalang fufu | Manado, North Sulawesi | Grilled smoked fish | Grilled smoked tuna skipjack fish skewered with bamboo. | |
| Chai tow kway | Chinese Indonesian | Dim sum | A type of dim sum with main ingredients steamed rice flour and shredded white daikon. | |
| Cincalok | Malay | Fermented food | Fermented small shrimps or krill. | |
| Dengke mas na niura | Batak | Fish dish | Na niura fish cooked by fermenting by main spices namely asam batak and kecombrang. This food tastes like fresh fish but without a fishy odor. Naura becomes delicious because of spices itself. | |
| Empal gepuk | West Java | Meat | Beef shank smashed until soft then soaked in coconut milk. It is then fried when made to order. | |
| Garang asem | Javanese | Chicken dish | Chicken dish cooked using banana leaves and dominated by sour and spicy flavor. | |
| Haisom cah jamur | Chinese Indonesian | Seafood | Sea cucumber stir fried with mushroom and vegetables. | |
| Iga babi | Balinese | Roasted meat | Balinese pork ribs. | |
| Iga penyet | Java | Fried ribs | Fried prised beef spare ribs with chili shrimp sauce (terasi). | |
| Ikan asin | Nationwide | Salted dried fish | Salted and sun-dried fishes of various species. It is often served accompanied with steamed rice and sambal chili paste. | |
| Ikan bakar | Nationwide | Grilled fish | Charcoal-grilled spiced fish/seafood. | |
| Ikan goreng | Nationwide | Fried fish | Spiced fish/seafood deep fried in coconut oil. | |
| Ikan kuah asam | Manado, North Sulawesi | Spicy and sour fish dish | Seafood fish (usually red snapper or trevally) cooked with Manadonese sour and spicy sauce/soup. | |
| Kepiting saus padang | Nationwide, but especially Minangkabau | Seafood | Crab served in hot and spicy padang sauce. | |
| Kepiting saus tiram | Nationwide, but especially Chinese Indonesian | Seafood | Crab served in savoury oyster sauce, garlic, ginger, and scallion. | |
| Krechek | Java | Spicy stew | Spicy stew made from krupuk kulit (skin cracker), potato, and soy beans. | |
| Krengsengan | Java | Meat dish (usually Mutton) | Mutton sautee with sweet soy sauce and petis udang, the Indonesian translation for (black shrimp paste). | |
| Laksan | Palembangese | Fishcake | Dish made from sago and fish. This dish made in an oval shape with almost pempek flavor, but served with coconut milk sauce. | |
| Lawar | Bali | Vegetable and meat dish | A traditional Balinese cuisine dish served with rice and other dishes. It 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. | |
| Na tinombur | Tapanuli, North Sumatra | Fish dish | Catfish or fish that is processed mujahir burned and served with chili sauce. This dish similar to pecel lele. | |
| Paniki | Manado, North Sulawesi | Roasted meat, exotic food | Bat cooked in Minahasan-style. | |
| Pannenkoek or panekuk | Nationwide | Pancake | A Dutch-influenced pancake with larger diameter and thinner. | |
| Pecel lele | East Java, but now available nationwide | Fried fish | Fried catfish with sambal. | |
| Pempek | South Sumatra, but now available nationwide | Fried fishcake | Fried fishcake in sweet, sour, and spicy vinegar sauce. | |
| Pepes | Nationwide | Cooked food in banana-leaf | Fish, meat, tofu, oncom, anchovy, mushroom or any other ingredients cooked inside a banana-leaf package. | |
| Perkedel | Nationwide | Fried dish | Made of ground potatoes, minced meat, peeled and ground corn or tofu, or minced fish. Most common perkedel are made from mashed potatoes, yet there are other popular variants which includes perkedel jagung. | |
| Perkedel jagung | Nationwide | Fried dish | A corn fritters. | |
| Puyunghai | Chinese Indonesian | Egg dish | An omelette which is usually made from the mixture of vegetables such as carrots, bean sprouts, and cabbages, mixed with meats such as crab meat, shrimp, or minced chicken. The dish is served in sweet and sour sauce with peas. | |
| Rabeg | Banten | Meat dish | Made from mutton with simple ingredients. It is not too dangerous for those who suffer from cholesterol because this foods do not need coconut milk in the processing. | |
| Rintek wuuk | Manado, North Sulawesi | Dog meat served in rich and plenty spices | Bush meat dish. | |
| Satay, satai or sate | Nationwide | Roasted skewered meat, satay | Skewered barbecued meat that usually had peanut sauce, or sweet soy sauce. Many type of satay has developed throughout Indonesia. Often eaten with chopped shallots and sambal. | |
| Sate babi | Balinese, Batak, Indo, and Chinese Indonesian | Roasted skewered meat, satay | A satay that made from pork meat. Popular among non-Muslim community. | |
| Sate bandeng | Banten | Grilled fish, satay | Deboned milkfish, spiced and grilled in its skin on bamboo skewers over charcoal embers. | |
| Sate kambing | Nationwide | Roasted skewered meat, satay | A variant of satay that made by grilling goat, lamb, or mutton meat that has been mixed with seasoning. Usually served during Eid ul-Adha. | |
| Sate klatak | Yogyakarta | Roasted skewered meat, satay | Goat or mutton satay that it uses mainly salt and a pinch of pepper as its main marinating seasoning. The skewers used to grill or roast the satay are made of iron. This dish usually served with gulai. | |
| Sate lilit | Bali | Roasted skewered meat, satay | Minced meat (pork, fish, or chicken) spiced and wrapped around bamboo or lemongrass stick as handle and grilled on charcoal. | |
| Sate madura | Madurese | Roasted skewered meat, satay | A Madurese satay made from mutton or chicken, the recipe's main characteristic is the black sauce made from sweet soy sauce mixed with palm sugar, garlic, deep fried shallots, peanut paste, petis, candlenut, and salt. | |
| Sate padang | Padang, West Sumatra | Roasted skewered meat, satay | A sate that made from beef cut into small cubes with spicy sauce on top. Its main characteristic is the thick yellow sauce made from rice flour mixed with beef and offal broth, turmeric, ginger, garlic, coriander, galangal root, cumin, curry powder and salt. | |
| Sate taichan | Jakarta | Roasted skewered meat, satay | A spicy chicken satay in hot sambal sauce, served with lontong. | |
| Sate udang | Nationwide | Seafood, satay | A type of satay that uses large shrimps or prawns, shelled and cleaned and often with the tails off and lightly grilled. | |
| Seblak | Bandung, West Java | Savoury wet krupuk | A savoury and spicy dish made of wet krupuk (traditional Indonesian crackers) cooked with scrambled egg, vegetables, and other protein sources; either chicken, seafood, or slices of beef sausages, stir-fried with spicy sauces including garlic, shallot, sweet soy sauce, and chili sauce. | |
| Se'i | Timorese | Smoked meat | With smoking or fumigation by using a mixture of salt and spices gives a unique taste. | |
| Selat solo | Solo, Central Java | Beefsteak, salad | Braised beef tenderloin served in thin watery sauce, served with vegetables and potato. This dish is European-Javanese fusion dish. | |
| Sosis solo | Javanese | Sausage | A Javanese sausages made from beef or chicken and coated by egg. | |
| Swikee | Purwodadi, Central Java | Frog leg dish | Frog legs cooked in various sauces. | |
| Tauge ayam | Malay and Chinese Indonesian | Meat dish | Steamed chicken that served with bean sprouts and light soy sauce flavoured with oil. | |
| Telur asin | Nationwide | Egg dish | Salted duck egg. | |
| Telur pindang | Nationwide | Egg dish | Hard boiled eggs boiled in water mixed with salt, shallot skins, teak leaf and other spices. | |
| Tinorangsak | Manado, North Sulawesi | Spicy meat dish | Pork, meat, chicken or seafood in spice. | |
| Udang balado | Minangkabau | Seafood | A hot and spicy shrimp dish. | |
| Woku | Manado, North Sulawesi | Spicy dish | Chicken or seafood (usually Fish) poured with Manadonese spicy yellow sauce/gravy. |
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