List of Indonesian dishes

Tumpeng nasi kuning, the cone shaped yellow rice surrounded by assorted Indonesian dishes.

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

Main dishes

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Typ	Description
Arsik		Batak	Spicy fish	Mandailing-style spiced carp with torch ginger and andaliman.
Ayam bakar		Nationwide	Grilled chicken	Charcoal-grilled spiced chicken.
Ayam bumbu rujak		Javanese	Chicken meal	Grilled or stir-fried chicken served with a spicy-sweet Rujak sauce.
Ayam geprek		Javanese	Fried Chicken	Crispy battered fried chicken crushed and mixed with hot and spicy sambal.
Ayam goreng		Nationwide	Fried chicken	Spiced chicken fried in coconut oil.
Ayam goreng kalasan		Kalasan, Yogyakarta	Fried Chicken	Fried free-range chicken with kremes (crispy fried granules).
Ayam kecap		Java	Chicken	Chicken simmered or braised in sweet soy sauce.
Ayam penyet		Javanese	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	Grilled chicken	Grilled chicken with a spicy, curry-like sauce.
Ayam taliwang		Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara	Roasted chicken	Grilled or fried chicken with a sambal sauce.
Ayam tandori		Indonesian Indian	Roasted chicken	Roasted chicken marinated in yoghurt and spices in a tandoor.
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		Indonesian Chinese, nationwide in Chinatowns	Braised meat	Braised pork with sweet soy sauce (kecap manis).
Babi panggang		Batak highlands	Roasted pork	Pork roasted in light spices and chopped, usually served with Batak style sambal and sayur daun singkong (cassava leaf vegetables)
Bak kut teh		Riau	Pork soup	A pork rib dish cooked in broth.
Bakso		Indonesian Chinese, nationwide	Meatball	Beef meatballs. Usually served in a bowl of beef broth, with yellow noodles, bihun (rice vermicelli), vegetables, tofu, egg (wrapped within bakso, Chinese green cabbage, bean sprout, sprinkled with fried shallots and celery.
Bakso ikan		Nationwide	Meatball	Small balls that were made from fish.
Bakmi		Java, nationwide	Noodle dish	Bakmi is normally boiled for serving. When bakmi is intended for use in soup, it is usually boiled separately from the broth. The noodles are usually mixed with either pork fat, chicken fat or beef fat.
Bakmi jawa		Javanese	Noodle dish	A traditional Javanese-style noodle.
Bakwan Malang		Malang, East Java And Bali	Noodle dish	Also known as Bakso Malang, meatball noodle soup with fried wontons.
Balungan		Javanese	Meat soup	A type of bakso that adds ‘’balungan’’ (bone) in portions.
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	Fried duck	Traditional seasoned fried duck, served with sambal hot and spicy chili paste.
Betutu		Bali and Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara	Roasted poultry	Poultry or duck filled with spicy seasonings, roasted usually for at least 8 hours.
Bistik jawa		Javanese	Beef dish	Javanese beef steak, a European-influenced dish.
Botok		Java		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.
Bubur asyura		Sumatra and Malay peninsula	Porridge	Type of porridge made from grains.
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 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.
Bubur pedas		Kalimantan	Porridge	Type of porridge made from finely ground sauteed rice and grated coconut. It is popular during Ramadan.
Burgo		Palembang, Southern Sumatra	Pancake	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.
Cap cai		Chinese Indonesian	Stir fried vegetable	Stir fried of ten types 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 flavour, while the white one has nothing added to it.
Chapati		Indian Indonesian	Flatbread	A thin, unleavened flatbread originating from India, brought by the Indian immigrant to the country.
Char kway teow		Chinese Indonesian	Noodle dish	This dish commonly stir-fried with egg, slices of sausages, fishcake, beansprouts, and less commonly with other ingredients.
Char siu		Chinese Indonesian	Roasted meat	A type of roasted meat.
Cwie mie		Malang, East Java	Noodle dish	A Chinese-influenced noodle dish, containing boiled and seasoned noodles, topped with pre-cooked minced meat (usually pork or chicken) and boiled wonton.
Daun ubi tumbuk		Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi	Vegetarian dish	Pounded cassava leaf in spices.
Empal gentong		Cirebon, West Java	Meat soup	Mutton or goat offal soup.
Empal gepuk		West Java	Meat	Beef shank smashed until soft then soaked in coconut milk. It is then fried when made to order.
Feijoada		Timorese	Meat soup	A Timorese beens soup with beef and pork, influenced by Portuguese cuisine.
Fuyunghai		Indonesian Chinese	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.
Gado-gado		Java	Vegetarian food	A mixture of vegetables, shrimp or fish crackers with peanut sauce. Often dubbed the Indonesian salad.
Garang asem		Javanese	Chicken meal	Chicken dish cooked using banana leaves and dominated by sour and spicy flavor.
Gudeg		Yogyakarta, Central Java	Vegetable and meat in coconut milk sauce	Unripe jackfruit boiled for hours in palm sugar and coconut milk, added with spices for its sweet flavour and brown colour. Served with rice, boiled egg, chicken, and sambal krechek.
Gulai		Nationwide	Meat or vegetable soup	Indonesian curry characterised with yellow colour from turmeric and coconut milk.
Ifu mie		Nationwide	Noodle dish	It is crispy deep fried thick noodle dish served in a thick savoury sauce with pieces of meat or seafood and vegetables.
Iga penyet		Java	Fried ribs	Fried presed beef spare ribs with chili shrimp sauce (sambal 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
Karedok		West Java	Vegetarian food	Raw vegetables served with peanut sauce. An equivalent to Jakarta's Gado-Gado (It's close to East Java pecel, but karedok uses raw vegetables).
Ketupat		Nationwide	Rice dish	It is made from rice packed inside a diamond-shaped container of woven palm leaf pouch.
Kari ayam		Nationwide	Curry dish	A type of curry dish cooked using chicken and spices.
Kari kambing		Sumatra	Curry dish	A type of curry dish cooked using lamb or mutton.
Kari kepala ikan		Malay	Curry dish	A type of curry dish cooked using head of a red snapper, influenced by Indian and Peranakan cuisine.
Kepiting saus padang		Nationwide, Minangkabau	Seafood	Crab served in hot and spicy Padang sauce.
Kepiting saus tiram		Indonesian Chinese	Seafood	Crab served in savoury oyster sauce, garlic, ginger, and scallion.
Ketoprak		Jakarta	Vegetarian food	Similar to gado-gado but is served with bihun(rice vermiceli) and salty, hence the whole dish is sometimes called "Bakmi Ketoprak"/Ketoprak noodle).
Ketupat sayur		Betawi, Jakarta, also Padang West Sumatra	Chicken or meat soup with rice cake	Pressed rice cake served with chicken or meat soup in coconut milk, chayote, jackfruit, and kerupuk.
Krechek		Java	cow skin spicy stew	Chili sauce made from krupuk kulit (skin cracker), potato, and soy beans.
Krengsengan		Java	Meat dish (usually Mutton)	Mutton sautee with sweet soy sauce aka kecap manis and petis udang, the Indonesian translation for (Black Shrimp Paste).
Kuluban		Java	Vegetarian food	Javanese traditional salad.
Kwetiau ayam		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Flat noodle with chicken, sometimes served with pangsi (wonton) and bakso (meatball) soup.
Kwetiau goreng		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Stir fried flat noodle, similar to char kway teow.
Kwetiau siram sapi		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	A dish of flat rice noodles stir-fried and topped with slices of beef or sometimes beef offal, served either dry or with soup.
Laksa banjar		Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan	Spicy noodle dish	Steamed noodle-like balls, made from rice flour paste, served in thick yellowish soup made from coconut milk, ground spices and snakehead fish broth.
Laksa bogor		Bogor	Spicy noodle dish	The popular one in Indonesia is Laksa Bogor that contains rice vermicelli, beansprouts, and oncom.
Laksa jakarta		Jakarta	Spicy noodle dish	Jakarta laksa contains rice vermicelli, beansprouts, and dried shrimp broth soup.
Lakso		Palembang, South Sumatra	Noodle dish	A spicy noodle dish served in savoury yellowish coconut milk-based soup, flavoured with fish, and sprinkled with fried shallots.
Lalap		Sundanese and Javanese	Vegetarian food	It is a raw vegetable salad served with sambal terasi.
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.
Lontong cap go meh		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/Cap Go Meh.
Lontong sayur		Betawi, Jakarta	Lontong rice cake with egg, tofu and vegetable in coconut milk-based soup	Pressed rice cake served with egg and tofu in coconut milk, common beans, chayote, jackfruit, and kerupuk.
Mie aceh		Aceh	Noodle dish	Acehnese Curry noodles. There are two variations: fried and dry, and soupy. Usually made with goat meat or seafood and served with emping, slices of shallots, cucumber, and lime.
Mie ayam		Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Chicken noodle dish. Also known as Cui Mie. Usually served with spring onions, fried wontons and chicken soup.
Mie cakalang		Manado, North Sulawesi	Noodle dish	Skipjack tuna noodle soup.
Mie caluk		Aceh	Noodle dish	It is a noodle dish served with a splash of thick spicy sauce made from a mixture of tomato, chili pepper or chili sauce, coconut milk, ground peanuts, spiced with shallot, garlic, lemongrass and citrus leaf, and served with pieces of vegetables, sliced cucumber and krupuk.
Mie celor		Palembang, South Sumatra	Noodle dish	A 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 Noodles) served with eggs, sometimes chicken, beef or seafood, with assorted vegetables such as thinly sliced carrots, (bok choi) or Chinese cabbage.
Mie kangkung		Jakarta	Noodle dish	Noodle served with kangkung (water spinach), and sweet chicken.
Mie kering		Makassarese and Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Dried noodle served with thick gravy and sliced chicken, shrimp, mushrooms, liver, and squid.
Mie kocok		Bandung, West Java	Noodle dish	Noodle in beef broth served with cow's tendons or cartilage.
Mie koclok		Cirebon, West Java	Noodle dish	Noodle in white-coloured extra-thick soup, made of chicken broth and coconut milk and shredded chicken breast
Mi ongklok		Wonosobo, Central Java	Noodle dish	A boiled noodles were made using cabbage, chunks of chopped leaves, and starchy thick soup called ‘’loh’’. Usually served with satay and tempeh.
Mi pangsit		Javanese, Indonesian Chinese	Noodle dish	Noodle served with pangsit.
Mie rebus		Indonesian Chinese and Javanese	Noodle dish	Boiled noodle soup.
Mun tahu		Indonesian Chinese	Tofu dish	Soft tofu with minced chicken and shrimp braised in savoury sauce.
Naan		Indonesian Indian	Flatbread	A leavened, oven-baked flatbread. It is usually eaten with an array of sauces such as chutney and curries.
Nasi ayam		Semarang, Central Java	Rice and meat dish	A dish composed of rice, chicken, egg, tofu, and served with a sweet-salty coconut milk gravy.
Nasi bebek		Indonesian Chinese	Rice and meat dish	Made of either braised or roasted duck and plain white rice.
Nasi biryani		Indonesian Indian	Rice dish	This dish almost equal with nasi kebuli.
Nasi bogana		Tegal, Central Java	Rice dish	A steamed rice dish wrapped in banana leaves and served with a variety of side dishes.
Nasi campur (nasi rames)	File:Food1.png	Nationwide	Rice dish	(Mixed Rice) rice with assorted vegetables and meat of choice.
Nasi goreng		Nationwide	Rice dish	(Fried Rice) steamed rice stir-fried with eggs, meatballs, chicken/beef/shrimp, assorted vegetables. The rice is made brown with thick and sweet soy sauce (kecap manis).
Nasi goreng pattaya		Malay	Rice dish	A type of nasi goreng that made by covering or wrapping chicken fried rice, in fried egg. It is often served with chili sauce and cucumber.
Nasi gurih		Aceh	Rice dish	Made by cooking mixture of rice and sticky rice soaked in coconut milk instead of water, along with salt, lemongrass, Indian bay leaf, and pandan leaves to add aroma.
Nasi kabsah		Arab Indonesian	Rice dish	Mixed rice dish that originating from Arabia.
Nasi kebuli		Betawi and Indonesian Arab	Rice dish	Steamed rice dish cooked in goat broth, milk, and ghee. Usually served during Mawlid.
Nasi kuning		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 lemak		North Sumatra, Riau, nationwide	Rice dish	It is a Malay fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. Usually served for breakfast.
Nasi liwet		Solo, Central Java	Rice dish	Usually rice processed with coconut milk and served with chicken, egg, and spicy broth.
Nasi mandi		Indonesian Arab	Rice dish	Usually made from rice, meat (lamb, camel, goat or chicken), and a mixture of spices.
Nasi minyak		Indonesian Arab, also in South Sumatra and Jambi	Rice dish	A cooked rice with ghee and spices.
Nasi padang		Padang, Western Sumatra, nationwide	Rice dish	This term usually means rice with a variety of dishes common in the specific region, cooked in coconut milk and a taste of chili.
Nasi pecel		Java	Vegetarian food	Rice served with cooked vegetables and peanut sauce. The vegetables are usually kangkung or water spinach, long beans, cassava leaves, papaya leaves, and in East Java often used kembang turi. Taste best when eaten with fried tempeh, traditional cracker, and spiced coconut flakes. Popular in East and Central Java.
Nasi tim		Indonesian Chinese	Rice dish	Steamed rice usually served with chicken and mushroom cooked in sweet soy sauce. Served with ginger
Nasi timbel		Sundanese	Rice dish	A hot dish consisting of steamed rice wrapped inside a banana leaf.
Nasi tutug oncom		Sundanese	Rice dish	A savoury rice dish, made of rice mixed with roasted oncom fermented beans
Nasi uduk		Betawi, Jakarta	Rice dish	Steamed rice cooked with coconut milk. It is usually 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 ulam		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		West Java	Fermented food	Fermented beans using Neurospora intermedia mould.
Opor ayam		Nationwide	Meat soup	Chicken cooked in coconut milk. Traditionally consumed with ketupat during the Idul Fitri celebration in many parts of Indonesia.
Pallubasa		Makassar	Meat soup	Spicy beef offal soup
Paniki		North Sulawesi	Roasted meat, exotic food	Bat cooked in Minahasan style.
Papeda		Maluku and Papua	Congee	Sago congee, the staple food of Eastern Indonesia.
Pecel lele		East Java, also nationwide	Fried fish	Fried catfish with sambal.
Pempek		Palembang, Southern Sumatra, also nationwide	Fried fishcake	Fried fishcake in sweet, sour, and spicy vinegar sauce.
Pepes		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		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	corn fritters.
Plecing kangkung		Lombok	Spicy vegetable	Lombok cuisine water spinach in plecing sambal
Pindang		Palembang	Fish soup	Fish boiled in salt and sour-tasting spices, usually tamarind.
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.
Rawon		East Java	Meat soup	A beef soup in dark soup. The dark colour comes from the meaty seeds of kluwak nuts. Usually served with uncooked mung bean sprouts and salty duck eggs.
Rendang		Minangkabau, West Sumatra, Southern Sumatra, Java	Meat dish	Chunks of beef stewed in coconut milk and spicy thick curry gravy.
Rica-rica		Manado, North Sulawesi	Meat, chicken, or fish in spicy sauce	Sauce made of rich chopped chilies
Rintek wuuk (RW)		Manado, North Sulawesi	Dog meat served in rich and plenty spices	Bush meat dish
Roti canai		Aceh, Medan, and West Sumatra or areas with Indian communities.	Flatbread	Heavy Indian influenced Paratha-like roti served with curry or other condiments
Roti jala		Sumatra	Pancake	Served with kari daging kambing.
Roti john		Malay	Sandwich	A Malay omelette sandwich, a European-influenced dish.
Roti pita		Indonesian Arab	Flatbread	A yeast-leavened round flatbread baked from wheat flour, sometimes with a pocket.
Saksang		Batak highlands	Meat stew	Pork or dog meat (or more rarely, water buffalo meat), cooked in its blood, mixed with coconut milk and spices (including kaffir lime and bay leaves, coriander, shallot, garlic, chili pepper and Thai pepper, lemongrass, ginger, galangal, turmeric and andaliman.
Sambal goreng teri		Nationwide	Salted anchovy	Spicy salted anchovy with peanuts.
Sapo tahu		Indonesian Chinese	Tofu dish	Soft tofu with vegetables, meat or seafood.
Sate, satai, or satay		Java and Sumatra, nationwide	Roasted skewered meat	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 bandeng		Banten	Grilled fish	Deboned milkfish, spiced and grilled in its skin on bamboo skewers over charcoal embers.
Sate lilit		Bali	Roasted skewered meat	Minced meat (pork, fish, or chicken) spiced and wrapped around bamboo or lemongrass stick as handle and grilled on charcoal.
Sayur asem		Nationwide	Vegetable soup	(Sour Dish/Tamarind Dish) clear soup with assorted vegetables such as: (melinjo) or gnetum gnemon, melinjo leaves, sweet corn (still on the cobs), young papaya, peanuts, and tamarind.
Sayur lodeh		Nationwide	Vegetable soup	(Mixed Vegetables in Coconut Milk Stew).
Sayur nganten		Betawi and West Java	Vegetable soup	Soup made of trubuk stem.
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		Kupang, Timor	Smoked meat	With smoking or fumigation by using a mixture of salt and spices gives a unique taste.
Selat solo		Solo, Central Java	Beefsteak and salad, European-Javanese fusion	Braised beef tenderloin served in thin watery sauce, served with vegetables and potato.
Semur		Nationwide	Stew	Stew made of kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and spices, usually uses beef.
Sop 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.
Sop saudara		Makassar, South Sulawesi	Meat soup	A spicy beef or buffalo soup.
Soto 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 colour of yellow because turmeric is added as one of the ingredients.
Soto Betawi		Betawi	Meat soup	A type of soto that were made of beef or beef offal, cooked in a whitish cow milk or coconut milk broth, with fried potato and tomato.
Soto mie		Nationwide	Noodle dish	A spicy noodle soup dish.
Swikee		Purwodadi, Central Java	Frog leg dish	Frog legs cooked in various sauces.
Tahu campur		Lamongan, East Java	Fried tofu in beef stew	Fried tofu, lontong rice cakes, lentho (fried black-eyed pea patty) or sometimes replaced by perkedel, bean sprouts, lettuce, noodles and krupuk crackers, served in savoury petis-based beef stew.
Tauge goreng		Bogor, West Java	Stir fried bean sprout	A savoury vegetarian dish made of stir fried tauge (bean sprouts) with slices of tofu, ketupat rice cake and yellow noodle, served in spicy oncom-based sauce.
Tekwan		Palembang, Southern Sumatra	Fishcake soup	A soup of fishcake with bangkoang and mushroom.
Telur pindang		Nationwide	Egg dish	Hard boiled eggs boiled in water mixed with salt, shallot skins, teak leaf and other spices.
Tempe		Nationwide	Fermented food	Can be cooked into various dishes; such as tempe bacem, tempe goreng, tempe orek, tumis tempe.
Sambal tempoyak		Sumatra and Kalimantan	Fermented food spicy condiment	Durian fermented with mixture of salt for three to five days, mixed with ground chili and shrimp paste.
Tempoyak ikan patin		Palembang	Fish curry	Catfish served in sweet and spicy fermented durian curry.
Tengkleng		Java	Meat soup	Goat bone soup.
Timlo		Javanese	Meat soup	A beef and vegetable soup. Some versions also have noodles, as a beef noodle soup.
Tinorangsak		Manado, North Sulawesi	Spicy meat dish	Pork, meat, chicken or seafood in spice
Tinutuan 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		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 fried kangkung vegetable.
Tumpang		Central Java	Fermented tempeh dish	Similar to gulai, but rotten tempeh is used as seasoning instead of turmeric. Might add other ingredients such as beef ligaments. This dish can be found in Central and western part of East Java.
Tumpeng		Java	Rice dish	Cone shaped rice surrounded with assorted dishes).
Urap		Javanese	Vegetarian food	A salad dish of steamed vegetables mixed with seasoned and spiced grated coconut for dressing.
Woku		Manado, North Sulawesi	Spicy dish	Chicken or seafood (usually Fish) poured with Manadonese spicy yellow sauce/gravy.
Yusheng		Indonesian Chinese	Fish salad	Fresh fish salad with sliced vegetables, such as carrot and turnips. Usually served during Imlek.

Savoury snacks

Name	Image	Region	Typ	Description
Arem-arem		Java	Rice cake	Similar like lontong, but flavoured with coconut milk, and stuffed with cooked ground meat, or tofu and tempeh.
Asinan Betawi		Jakarta	Vegetarian food	A pickled (through brined or vinegared) vegetable or fruit dish.
Bakcang		Chinese Indonesian	Rice cake	Rice cake filled with meats, sometimes beans, mushroom, and salty egg, wrapped in bamboo leaves.
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.
Burasa		Makassar, South Sulawesi	Rice cake	Rice and coconut milk cake wrapped in banana leaves.
Cilok		Bandung, West Java		Ball-shaped dumpling made from aci (tapioca starch), cilok is an abbreviation of aci dicolok or "poked tapioca", served with peanut sauce, kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), sambal, bottled chili sauce, or served in soup.
Cimol		Bandung, West Java		A small snack made from rounded tapioca flour doughs which is then fried. Cimol comes from Banten, West Java.
Cireng		West Java		A small snack made out of fried tapioca batter
Emping		Nationwide	Crakers	Crackers made from flattened Gnemon/Belinjo seeds.
Idli kukus		Indonesian Indian	Rice cake	A type of savoury rice cake.
Karipap		Malay	Fried dumpling	A snack usually filled with chicken and potato with a dried curry inside.
Kembang tahu		Indonesian Chinese	Tofu and soy food	Soft tofu with warm sweet ginger soup.
Kerak telor		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 colours.:) Hi
Kerupuk kulit		Nationwide	Crackers, crisp	Cow skin crackers
Lemang		Malay and Minangkabau	Rice dish	A traditional Malay food made of glutinous rice, coconut milk and salt, cooked in a hollowed bamboo stick lined with banana leaves in order to prevent the rice from sticking to the bamboo.
Lemper		Java	Rice cake	Made from glutinous rice 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.
Martabak kubang		West Sumatra	Egg dish or pancake	This food almost equal with martabak.
Mendoan		Central Java	Fried food	Deep fried battered tempeh, cooked lightly in a short time and resulted in limp texture.
Otak-otak		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		Manado, North Sulawesi	Bread	Fried bread filled with spicy tuna.
Pastel		Nationwide	Fried dumpling	Fried flour dumpling filled with vegetables and meat.
Popiah		Chinese Indonesian	Spring roll	This dish almost equal with lumpia.
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 manis, is a mixture of fruit covered with sweet and spicy coconut sugar sauce, sometimes ground peanut is also added to the sauce.
Rujak cingur		Surabaya	Vegetables with cow's lips	A mixture of vegetables, tofu, tempeh, lontong rice cake, beansprouts with petis black fish paste sauce and slices of boiled cow's lips.
Rujak juhi		Jakarta, Indonesian Chinese	Vegetables with salted cuttlefish	A mixture of vegetables, tofu, noodles, lontong rice cake, potato, and juhi salted cuttlefish served in spicy peanut sauce.
Rujak shanghai		Jakarta, Indonesian Chinese	Vegetables with boiled seafood	A mixture of kangkung water spinach, preserved squid, edible jellyfish, daikon and cucumber, served in thick red-colored sweet and sour sauce, sprinkled with peanuts granules and sambal.
Rujak soto		Banyuwangi, East Java	Vegetables with soto	A unique blend of vegetable salad with soto, include soto daging (beef) or soto babat.
Pangsit goreng		Indonesian Chinese	Wonton dish	Fried wonton filled with chicken or shrimp with sweet and sour sauce.
Pempek		Palembang, Southern Sumatra area	Fishcake	A signature dish of Palembang. Fish paste mixed with flour and then deep fried. Served with cucumber, noodles or bihun, as in ketoprak, and thin sauce made from tamarind, vinegar and pounded dried shrimp.
Samosa		Indonesian Arab	Dumpling	It is a fried or baked dish with a savoury filling, such as spiced potatoes, onions, peas, or lentils. It may take different forms, including triangular, cone, or half-moon shapes.
Siomay		Indonesian Chinese, West Java	Fishcake and dumpling	A light meal which has a similar form to Chinese Dim Sum, 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.
Serabi or 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 or tahu pletok		Tegal, Central Java	Tofu and soy food	A small snack made from tofu and flour. Its come from Tegal, 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 cut with scissors, served with a sauce made from rice flour, peanuts and chili.
Tahu sumedang		Sumedang, West Java	Tofu and soy food	Deep fried tofu, served with sweet soy sauce/kecap manis and chili.
Tempe bacem		Java	Soy food	Tempeh stewed in coconut sugar and spices, then deep fried. It has sweet and savoury flavour.
Tahu		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.
Uli bakar		West Java	Sticky rice	Grilled sticky rice, commonly eaten with oncom or serundeng grated coconut.

Sweet desserts

Name	Image	Region	Typ	Description
Angsle		Java		A mix of melinjo, glutinous rice, peanut, sago pearl, white bread, coconut milk, screwpine leaf, ginger and milk.
Asida		Maluku Islands	Pudding	A dish made up of a cooked wheat flour lump of dough, sometimes with added butter or honey. It is popular during Ramadan.
Bahulu		Malay	Pastry	A Malay traditional cake with soft texture. Usually served for breakfast.
Bakpia pathok		Yogyakarta	Bean cake	A small patty of baked pastry filled with sweet mung bean paste.
Bakpao		Nationwide	Bread	A type of baozi that very typical in Indonesia, filled with meat, chocolate, cheese, mung bean, or red bean.
Brem (solid snack)		Madiun Java	Sweet snack	Brem is made from fermented tape. Brem is a special snack from Madiun, East Java. The liquid version is light alcoholic beverage also called Brem originated from Bali.
Bolu pandan		Nationwide	Cake	A light, fluffy, green-colored sponge cake flavored with the juices of pandan leaves.
Bubur candil		Java	Sweet porridte	Glutinous rice cake ball stewed in gula jawa (palm sugar), served with thick coconut milk.
Bubur kacang hijau		Nationwide	Sweet porridge	Green beans porridge, sweetened with sugar, and served with thick coconut milk.
Bubur ketan hitam		Nationwide	Sweet porridge	Black glutinous rice porridge, sweetened with sugar, and served with thick coconut milk.
Bubur sumsum		Nationwide	Sweet porridge	White congee made from rice flour and eaten with brown sugar sauce.
Cendil		Java	Sweet rice and coconut cake	Rice flour-based small glutinous cake, sweetened with sugar, moulded and coloured. Served with fresh grated coconut.
Cendol		Nationwide	Sweet jelly	Rice flour jelly with green natural coloring from pandan leaf, mixed with coconut milk, shaved ice and palm/brown sugar.
Dadar gulung		Javanese, also nationwide	Folded pancake	Usually has a green colour, which is acquired from daun suji or pandan leaves It is a green-coloured folded omelette or pancake made of rice flour, filled with grated coconut and palm sugar.
Dadiah		West Sumatra	Yoghurt	Traditional West Sumatran water buffalo milk yoghurt.
Dangke		South Sulawesi	Cheese	Made from buffalo or cow milk.
Dodol		Java	Sweets	Rice flour-based small glutinous sweets, sweetened with coconut sugar, moulded and coloured. Often add fruit scent and taste such as durian.
Donat kentang		Nationwide	Doughnut	A ring-shaped fritter made from flour and mashed potatoes, coated in powder sugar or icing sugar.
Es campur		Nationwide	Sweet desert	Shaved ice with coconut pieces, various fruits (usually jackfruit), grass jelly, syrup and condensed milk
Es puter		Java	Ice cream	Ice cream that made from coconut milk with a rough texture and traditionally frozen.
Geplak		Yogyakarta	sweet snacks	Sweets made from sugar and grated coconut.
Getuk		Java	Cassava cake	Cassava paste, sweetened with sugar and moulded in a special tools that it resembles noodles. Often served with fresh grated coconut.
Kaasstengels		Nationwide, with Dutch-influenced	Pastry	It is made from dough flour, eggs, margarine, and grated cheese. This cake shaped rectangular. Usually served during Eid ul-Fitr, Christmas, and Imlek.
Klappertaart		Manado	coconut custard	Tart made from flour, sugar, milk, butter, as well as coconut flesh and juice.
Kolak		Nationwide	Sweet cocktail	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 flavour.
Klepon		Nationwide	Sweet coconut cake	Boiled rice cake, stuffed with coconut sugar, and rolled in fresh grated coconut. It is flavoured with pandan leaves juice.
Kue apem		Nationwide, with Indian-influenced	Pancake	A steamed dough made of rice flour, coconut milk, yeast and palm sugar, usually served with grated coconut.
Kue cubit		Nationwide	Cake	This cake is called kue cubit because of its small size: to eat it one has to pinch it.
Kue gapit		Cirebonese, Javanese	Waffle	A waffle-cracker snack that grilled between iron molds like a waffle generally.
Kue kaak		Arab Indonesian	Biscuit	A small circular biscuit as result of acculturation between Arabs and Indonesian.
Kue kacang tanah		Nationwide	Cookie	A kind of pastry made from peanuts with various forms, such as round shape, heart, or crescent moon.
Kue kembang goyang		Betawi and Javanese	Cookie	Made of rice flour which is mixed with eggs, sugar, a pinch of salt, and coconut milk. The dough can be fried after heating the oil and the ‘’kembang goyang’’ mold.
Kue keranjang		Chinese Indonesian	Cake	A food prepared from glutinous rice. Usually served during Imlek
Kue kochi		Malay	Dumpling	Made from glutinous rice flour, and stuffed with coconut fillings with palm sugar.
Kue ku		Betawi and Chinese Indonesian	Pastry	A small round or oval shaped Chinese pastry with soft sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet filling in the centre.
Kue leker		Java	Crepe	Indonesian crepe that made with wheat flour, eggs, milk, and sugar.
Kue lidah kucing		Nationwide	Cookie	A type of cookie shaped like a cat's tongue (long and flat). They are sweet and crunchy.
Kue mangkok		Java	Cupcake	Traditional steamed cupcake that similar with bolu kukus.
Kue pukis		Nationwide	Pastry	This cake is made from egg mixture, granulated sugar, flour, yeast and coconut milk. The mixture is then poured into a half-moon mold and baked on fire (not oven). Pukis can be said to be actually a modification of waffles.
Kue putri salju		Nationwide	Cookie	A type of cookie which is crescent-shaped and coated with powdered sugar covered like snow.
Kue putu		Nationwide	Sweet coconut cake	Similar to klepon, except that it's cylindrical in shape whilst klepon is spherical.
Kue rangi		Betawi and Javanese	Pastry	A Betawi traditional cake that made from a mixture of starch with grated coconut which is baked with a special mold on a small stove.
Kue soes		Nationwide	Pastry	A baked pastry filled with soft and moist cream made from the mixture of milk, sugar and flour.
Kue sri muka		Banjarese, Malay	Pudding	A two-layered dessert with steamed glutinous rice forming the bottom half and a green custard layer made with pandan juice.
Kukis jagung		Nationwide	Cookie	A type of cookie prepared with corn products.
Lapis legit or spekuk		Nationwide	Layered cake	A spiced layered cake, made mainly of egg yolk, flour and margarine/butter.
Lupis		Java	Glutinous rice cake	Glutinous rice cake wrapped and cooked in banana leaves, served with grated coconut and drizzled with thick coconut sugar syrup.
Mochi		Chinese and Japanese Indonesian	Sweet rice cake	Rice flour based cake filled with peanuts paste, sometimes sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Nagasari		Nationwide	Banana cake	Steamed rice cake wrapped in banana leaves, and stuffed with banana.
Nastar		Nationwide	Pastry	It is has round shape with a diameter of about 2 centimetres. The pineapple jam is filled inside instead of spread on top. The cookie is often decorated with small pieces of cloves or raisins on top of it.
Ombus-ombus		Batak	Rice cake	Sticky rice with palm sugar filling, rolled in coconut flakes
Onde-onde		Nationwide, possibly Chinese-Indonesian derived	Sweet sesame rice balls	Glutinous rice cake balls, filled with sweet green beans paste, and rolled in sesame seed and then fried.
Pai ti		Peranakan	Pastry	A thin and crispy pastry tart shell filled with a spicy, sweet mixture of thinly sliced vegetables and prawns.
Panekuk		Nationwide	Pancake	A Dutch-influenced pancake with larger diameter and much thinner than usual pancake.
Pisang goreng		Nationwide	Fritters	(Fried Banana), battered and deep fried banana/plantain.
Poffertjes		Nationwide	Pancake	Similar with kue cubit. This cake have a light and spongy texture.
Putu mayang		Betawi, with Indian-influenced, but now is nationwide	String hoppers	Made from starch or rice flour shaped like noodles, with a mixture of coconut milk, and served with kinca or liquid javanese sugar.
Roti buaya		Jakarta	Bread, pastry	Crocodile-shaped bread commonly served during Betawi wedding and celebrations.
Roti ganjel rel		Javanese	Pastry	A rectangular-shaped brown bread with sesame seeds and cinnamon flavored. Usually served during Dugderan and Ramadan.
Roti tissue		Medan and Jakarta, with Indian-influenced	Flatbread	A thinner version of the traditional roti canai, as thin as a piece of 40–50 cm round-shaped tissue.
Semprong		Javanese, Malay, Indo, nationwide	Egg roll	A wafer snack made by clasping egg batter using an iron mold which is heated up on a charcoal stove.
Terang bulan		Bangka Belitung, Sumatra, nationwide	Pastry	Originally a Chinese snack, but nowadays it is labelled as murtabak.
Wafel setrup		Nationwide	Waffle	A wafer cookie made from two thin layers of baked dough joined by a caramel filling.
Wingko		Semarang, Central Java	Coconut cake	Sweet baked coconut snack.

Beverages

Main article: List of Indonesian beverages

Common ingredients

Main article: Bumbu (seasoning)

Sauces and condiments

Name	Image	Region	Typ	Description
Acar		Nationwide	Pickles	Various chopped vegetables in vinegar.
Bawang goreng		Nationwide	Garnish	Crispy fried onions or shallots sprinkled upon various dishes to give aroma and crispy texture.
Dabu-dabu		North Sulawesi	Sauce	Sliced chili, tomatoes and shallots. Condiments for grilled fish.
Kecap manis and kecap asin		Nationwide	Sauce	Soy sauces, available in sweet (manis) and salty (asin).
Pecel		Java	Sauce	A mixture of vegetables and a type of traditional cracker with spicy peanut paste. Madiun and blitar in East Java are popular for their pecel.
Sambal		Nationwide	Sauce	Chili sauce with rich variants across Indonesia, among other uses shrimp paste.
Serundeng		Java	Sprinkle dry condiments	Grated coconut sauteed and spiced, can be served with beef, sprinkled on soto, or eaten with sticky rice.
Tauco		Nationwide	Sauce	Tauco is a paste made from preserved fermented yellow soybeans.
Tumpang		Java	Sauce	Tumpang or sambal tumpang is a typical food from Kediri, East Java. Sambal tumpang has been made of rotten tempeh mixed and cooked with various spices such as chili, onion, salt and other spices.

Spices

• Anise (Adas Manis)
• Asam kandis (dried fruit of Garcinia xanthochymus)
• Asam sunti (dried fruit of Averrhoa bilimbi)
• Candlenuts (Kemiri)
• Cardamom (Kapulaga)
• Chili (Cabai)
• Cinnamon (Kayu Manis)
• Clove (Cengkeh)
• Coriander seeds (Ketumbar)
• Cumin seeds (Jinten)
• Fennel (Adas)
• Fenugreek (Klabet)
• Fingerroot (Temu Kunci)
• Galangal (Lengkuas)
• Garcinia atroviridis (Asam Gelugur)
• Garlic (Bawang putih)
• Shallot (Bawang merah)
• Onion (Bawang bombay)
• Ginger (Jahe)
• Kaempferia galanga (Kencur)
• Nutmeg (Pala)
• Pangium edule (Kluwak)
• Star anise (Pekak, bunga lawang)
• Tamarind seeds (Asam)
• Torch ginger (Kecombrang, Etlingera elatior)
• Turmeric (Kunyit)
• Zingiber zerumbet (Lempuyang)

Herbs

• Indonesian bay leaves (Daun Salam)
• Kaffir lime Leaves (daun jeruk parut)
• Lemongrass (serai)
• Pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius, a variety of Pandanus, used to add a distinct aroma to some dishes and desserts)
• Lemon Basil (kemangi)
• Lime Leaves (daun jeruk)
• Turmeric Leaves (daun kunyit)
• Celery leaves (daun seledri)

Vegetables

• Asparagus
• Broccoli (brokoli)
• Carrot (wortel)
• Cassava leaves (daun singkong)
• Cauliflower (kembang kol)
• Cabbage (kol)
• Chayote gourd (labu siam)
• Corn (jagung)
• Cucumber (timun)
• Eggplant (terong)
• Jicama (bengkuang)
• Sweetcorn (jagung muda)
• Snap peas (kapri)
• Leek (bawang prei)
• Shallot (bawang merah), small red onions (Allium ascalonicum), as also used in south India; more common than large onions (Allium cepa, bawang Bombay)
• Garlic (bawang putih)
• Leaf amaranth (bayam/bayem); various Amaranthus species, often incorrectly called spinach though they belong to the same family as Spinacia oleracea
• Bok choi, pak choi (sawi hijau)
• Napa cabbage (sawi putih)
• Choi sum (caisim)
• Kailan
• Chives (kucai)
• White carrot (lobak)
• Water convolvulus (kangkung)
• Green beans (buncis, kacang buncis)
• Long beans (kacang panjang)
• Winged beans (kecipir)
• Bitter gourd (pare)
• Beansprout (tauge)
• Peas (kacang polong)
• Tomato (tomat)
• Luffa (oyong)
• Papaya leaves (daun pepaya)
• Yellow velvetleaf (genjer)
• Belinjau (leaves and fruits of Gnetum gnemon)
• Young jackfruit (nangka muda)
• Banana flower (jantung pisang)

Fruits

• Avocado - Alpukat
• Baccaurea racemosa - Menteng
• Banana - Pisang
• Bouea macrophylla - Gandaria
• Star Fruit - Belimbing
• Coconut - Kelapa
• Duku-Duku
• Durian-Durian
• Guava - Jambu biji
• Jackfruit - Nangka
• Kaffir lime -Jeruk Obat / Jeruk Limau
• Lime - Jeruk Nipis
• Longan - Kelengkeng
• Lychee - Leci
• Mango - Mangga
• Mangosteen - Manggis
• Orange - Jeruk
• Otaheite apple - Kedongdong
• Papaya - Pepaya
• Passionfruit - Markisa
• Persimmon - Kesemek
• Pineapple - Nanas
• Pomelo - Jeruk Bali
• Rambutan-Rambutan
• Snake Fruit - Salak
• Sawo - Sawo
• Soursop - Sirsak
• Spondias dulcis - Kedondong
• Syzygium malaccense - Jambu Bol
• Water apple - Jambu air
• Watermelon - Semangka

Gallery

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  Sop Buntut Goreng.
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  Sambal Goreng Teri Tempe.
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  Krupuk.
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  Indonesian Snacks.

See also

• Cuisine of Indonesia
• Javanese cuisine
• List of cuisines
• List of Indonesian beverages
• List of Indonesian soups
• Minangkabau cuisine
• Street food of Indonesia

External links

• Culinary Reconnaissance: Indonesia
• Eating the Indonesian way
• Indonesian Recipes
• Indonesian food, recipes and culinary
• Good Indonesian Heritage Food and Cuisine