List of Indonesian Dishes

Dishes

Ayam Kalasan
Kalasan, Yogyakarta Fried Chicken Fried chicken with kremes (crispy granules).
Ayam Taliwang
Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Roasted chicken originated from Nusa Tenggara (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.
Bakwan Malang
Malang, East Java Noodle dish also known as Bakso Malang, meatball noodle soup with fried wontons from city of Malang
Betutu
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.
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
  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
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
Cirebon, West Java Meat soup mutton or goat offal soup from Cirebon, West Java.
Gado-gado
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)
Gepuk or Empal
West Java Fried meat sometimes called empal gepuk), fried shredded beef in sweet spice from West Java.
Gudeg
Yogyakarta, Central Java Vegetable and meat in coconut milk sauce raw jackfruit that cooked in a Javanese traditional way that originated from Yogyakarta)
Gulai
Nationwide Meat or vegetable soup Indonesian curry) characterised with yellow colour from turmeric and coconut milk.
Karedok
West Java Vegetarian food raw vegetables served with peanut sauce from West Java(It's close to East Java 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





 Kwetiau goreng
  Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish Stir fried flat noodle, similar to char kway teow
Kwetiau ayam
Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish Flat noodle with chicken, sometimes served with pangsi (wonton) and bakso (meatball) soup
Laksa
Bogor and Jakarta Vegetable soup the popular one in Indonesia is Laksa Bogor that contains rice vermicelli, beansprouts, and oncom.
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/Cap Go Meh
Mie Aceh
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
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

Mie Ayam
Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish also known as Cui Mie
Mie Bakso
Indonesian Chinese Noodle dish

Nasi Campur or Nasi Rames
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 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 liwet
Solo, Central Java Rice dish Usually rice processed with coconut milk 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
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 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. The dark color comes from the meaty seeds of kluwak nuts. Usually served with uncooked mung bean sprouts and salty duck eggs.
Nasi Tim
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 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 Tempe.
Opor Ayam

 
Nationwide Meat soup Chicken cooked in coconut milk. Traditionally consumed with ketupat during the Idul Fitri celebration in many parts of Indonesia.





Paniki
North Sulawesi Roasted meat, exotic food Bat cooked in Minahasan style
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 Jagung
  Nationwide Fried dish corn fritters
Rawon
East Java Meat soup a soup of beef. The colour is usually black due to "kluwek" used as the spice
Rendang
  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
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
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
  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
Semur
Nationwide Stew Stew made of kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and spices, usually uses beef.
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 color of yellow because turmeric is added as one of the ingredients.
Tekwan
Palembang, Southern Sumatra Fishcake soup a soup of fishcake with bangkoang and mushroom.
Tempe
Nationwide Fermented food can be cooked into various dishes; such as tempe bacem, tempe goreng, tempe orek, tumis tempe.
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 fry kangkung vegetable
Tumpeng
Java Rice dish cone shaped rice surrounded with assorted dishes)

Sweet Desserts

Angsle
Java
a mix of melinjo, glutinous rice, peanut, sago pearl, white bread, coconut milk, screwpine leaf, ginger and milk.






Bakpia Pathok
Yogyakarta
Bean cake a small patty of baked pastry filled with sweet mung bean paste.
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.
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
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

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
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
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
  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 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)
Nationwide
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
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 an the fried.
Pisang Goreng
Nationwide
(Fried Banana), battered and deep fried banana/plantain
Wingko babad
Semarang, Central Java
Coconut cake sweet baked coconut snack