Curries

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Gudeg		Yogyakarta and Central Java	Curry dish	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		Minangkabau / Nationwide	Curry dish	Indonesian curry characterised with yellow colour from turmeric and coconut milk. The most popular variants of gulai are gulai ayam, gulai kambing, and gulai otak.
Gulai ayam		Nationwide	Curry dish, chicken dish	Chicken cooked in a spicy, rich, yellowish, curry-like sauce called gulai.
Kalio		Minangkabau	Curry dish, meat dish	A type of rendang that is cooked for a shorter period of time and much of the coconut milk liquid has not evaporated.
Kari ayam		Nationwide	Curry dish, chicken dish	A type of curry dish cooked using chicken and spices.
Kari domba		Malay and Minangkabau	Curry dish, meat dish	A type of curry dish cooked using lamb or mutton. It is popular during Eid ul-Adha.
Kari kambing		Nationwide	Curry dish, meat dish	A type of curry dish prepared with goat meat. Usually served with roti canai. It is popular during Eid ul-Adha.
Kari kepala ikan		Malay	Curry dish, seafood	A type of curry dish cooked using head of a red snapper, influenced by Indian and Peranakan cuisine.
Kari rajungan		East Java	Curry dish, seafood	A type of curry dish cooked using portunidae.
Kari udang		Sumatra	Curry dish, seafood	A type of curry dish cooked using shrimp.
Kuwah eungkôt yèe		Aceh	Curry dish, seafood	A shark gulai cooked using herbs and spices that are very distinctive, such as temurui leaves and kaffir lime leaves.
Kuwah pliek u		Aceh	Curry dish	An Acehnese gulai-like dish cooked using oilcake, melinjo, long beans, peanuts, papaya leaves, cassava leaves, kecombrang bamboo shoots, snails, and spices.
Opor ayam		Nationwide	Curry dish, chicken dish, meat soup	Chicken cooked in coconut milk. Traditionally consumed with ketupat during the Eid ul-Fitr celebration in many parts of Indonesia.
Rendang		Minangkabau/ Nationwide	Curry dish, meat dish	Chunks of beef stewed in coconut milk and spicy thick curry gravy.[1] It is usually served during Eid ul-Fitr.
Tempoyak ikan patin		Palembang	Curry dish, seafood	Catfish served in sweet and spicy fermented durian curry.

Meals

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Arsik		Batak, North Sumatra	Spicy fish	Mandailing-style spiced carp with torch ginger and andaliman.[2]
Ayam bakar		Nationwide	Chicken dish (grilled chicken)	Charcoal-grilled spiced chicken.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
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).[6]
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.[7]
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.

Soy-based foods

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Mun tahu		Chinese Indonesian	Soy food, tofu dish	Soft tofu with minced chicken and shrimp braised in savoury sauce.
Oncom		West Java	Fermented food, soy food	Fermented beans using Neurospora intermedia mould.
Sapo tahu		Chinese Indonesian	Soy food, tofu dish	Soft tofu with vegetables, meat or seafood.
Tahu		Nationwide	Fermented food, soy food, tofu dish	Chinese origin, basically a soy milk cheese. It can be fried, stir fried, stewed, as soup ingredient, even also for sweets.
Tahu campur		Lamongan, East Java	Soy food, tofu dish	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.
Tahu goreng		Nationwide	Soy food, tofu dish	Deep fried tofu.
Tempeh		Nationwide	Fermented food, soy food	Can be cooked into various dishes; such as tempe bacem, tempe goreng, tempe orek, tumis tempe.
Tempeh burger		Nationwide	Soy food, hamburger	A fusion Javanese burger. Hamburger tempeh buns with salad, sauces or seasonings.
Tumpang		Central Java	Fermented dish, soy food	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.
Yong tau fu		Nationwide	Soy food, tofu dish	A tofu dish that consisting primarily of tofu filled with ground meat mixture or fish paste.

Preserved meats

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Cha sio		Chinese Indonesian	Roasted meat	Chinese Indonesia roasted pork meat.
Dendeng		Nationwide, but especially Minangkabau	Meat dish	A thinly sliced dried meat. It is made of preserved through a mixture of sugar and spices and dried via a frying process.
Pekasam		South Kalimantan	Fermented food	A freshwater fish that fermented until it tastes sour, then seasoned with chili and sugar.
Serundeng		Java	Sprinkle dry meat	Beef sauted with grated coconut, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, salt, hot pepper, and terasi. Can be sprinkled on soto, or eaten with sticky rice.

Congees and porridges

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Bubur asyura		Sumatra	Grain porridge	Type of porridge made from grains. Usually served during Islamic New Year.
Bubur ayam		Java	Rice porridge, congee	Rice porridge served with soy sauce, spices, fried shallots, shredded chicken meat, beans, cakwee, krupuk, and sambal.
Bubur candil		Java	Sweet porridge	Glutinous rice cake ball stewed in gula jawa (palm sugar), served with thick coconut milk. Similar to kolak biji salak.
Bubur cha cha		Betawi and Malay	Sweet porridge	A traditional Betawi and Malay dessert, prepared using pearled sago, sweet potatoes, yams, bananas, coconut milk, pandan leaves, sugar and salt. It can be served hot or cold.
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.
Bubur pedas		Kalimantan	Rice porridge	Type of porridge made from finely ground sauteed rice and grated coconut. It is popular during Ramadan.
Jagung bose		Timorese	Corn porridge, grits	Grits that usually served with a mixture of kidney beans, peanuts, and se’i.
Tinutuan		Manado, North Sulawesi	Rice porridge, congee	Rice porridge served with spices, corn, vegetables, cassava or sweet potato, shallots, shredded salted fish, leek, and sambal.

Rice cake dishes

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Docang		Cirebon, West Java	Rice cake dish	A traditional food made of slices of rice cake, cassava leaves, sprouts, and krupuk, served in a thick vegetable sauce called dage, which is made of mashed tempeh mixed with grated coconut.
Ketupat sayur		West Sumatra and Jakarta	Rice cake dish	Pressed rice cake served with chicken or meat soup in coconut milk, chayote, jackfruit, and kerupuk.
Kupat tahu		Javanese and Sundanese	Rice cake dish	Pressed rice cake served with fried tofu and bean sprouts in peanut sauce topped with crispy krupuk crackers.
Lontong balap		Surabaya, East Java	Rice cake dish	Rice cake dish made from lontong, taoge (bean sprouts), fried tofu, lentho (fried mashed beans), fried shallots, sambal petis and sweet soy sauce.
Lontong cap go meh		Betawi and Chinese Indonesian	Rice cake dish	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	Rice cake dish	Pressed rice cake served with egg and tofu in coconut milk, common beans, chayote, jackfruit, and kerupuk.

Rice dishes

Name	Image	Origin/Popularity	Type	Description
Nasi ambeng		Javanese and Malay	Rice dish	A fragrant rice dish that consists of steamed white rice, chicken curry or chicken stewed in soy sauce, beef or chicken rendang, sambal goreng, urap, perkedel, and serundeng.
Nasi ayam		Semarang, Central Java	Rice dish, meat dish	A dish composed of rice, chicken, egg, tofu, and served with a sweet-salty coconut milk gravy.
Nasi bakar		Nationwide	Rice dish	A traditional steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaf secured with lidi semat (small needle made of central rib of coconut leaf) and later grilled upon charcoal fire.
Nasi bali		Nationwide, but especially popular in Bali	Rice dish	Balinese-style of mixed rice. The tastes are often distinctly local, punctuated by basa genep.
Nasi bebek		Chinese Indonesian	Rice dish, meat dish	Made of either braised or roasted duck and plain white rice.
Nasi bebek goreng		Nationwide, but especially popular in East Java and Bali	Rice dish, meat dish	Traditional seasoned fried duck, served with sambal hot and spicy chili paste, served with steamed rice.
Nasi biryani or nasi briyani		Malay and Indian Indonesian	Rice dish	A popular mixed rice dish derived from India with local taste, this dish almost similar to 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 or nasi rames		Nationwide	Rice dish	Mixed rice with assorted vegetables and meat of choice.
Nasi dagang		Riau Islands	Rice dish	A rice dish consisting of rice steamed in coconut milk, fish curry and extra ingredients such as fried shaved coconut, hard-boiled eggs and vegetable pickles.
Nasi gandul		Javanese	Rice dish with beef soup	A rice dish served in sweet and spicy beef soup, specialty of Pati Regency, Central Java, Indonesia.
Nasi goreng		Nationwide	Rice dish, fried rice	(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).[8]
Nasi goreng jawa		Javanese	Rice dish, fried rice	Javanese fried rice, commonly seasoned with sambal.
Nasi goreng kambing		Betawi	Rice dish, fried rice	Spicy fried rice with goat meat, cooked in ghee.
Nasi goreng pattaya		Malay	Rice dish, fried rice	A type of fried rice that made by covering or wrapping chicken fried rice, in fried egg. It is often served with chili sauce and cucumber.
Nasi jamblang		Cirebon, West Java	Rice dish	Rice dish with menus are usually available which include chili fries, tofu vegetables, lung (troop), liver or meat stews, cakes, satay potatoes, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, cooked chili, stewed fish, salted fish, tofu and tempeh.
Nasi jinggo		Bali	Rice dish	A Balinese typical fast food that is packaged with small portions of banana leaves.
Nasi kabsah		Arab Indonesian	Rice dish	Mixed rice dish that originating from Arabia.
Nasi kapau		Minangkabau	Rice dish	A steamed rice topped with various choices of dishes originated from Bukittinggi, West Sumatra.
Nasi kari		Nationwide	Rice dish	Rice dish mixed with curry (it can be chicken, mutton, or fish head curry).
Nasi kebuli		Betawi and Arab Indonesian	Rice dish	Steamed rice dish cooked in goat broth, milk, and ghee. Usually served during Mawlid.
Nasi kucing		Nationwide	Rice dish	A traditional rice dish that originated from Yogyakarta and Central Java. It consists of a small portion of rice with toppings, usually sambal, dried fish, and tempeh, wrapped in banana leaves.
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		Nationwide, but especially popular in North Sumatra and Riau	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		Arab Indonesian	Rice dish	Usually made from rice, meat (lamb, camel, goat or chicken), and a mixture of spices.
Nasi megono		Javanese	Rice dish	A rice dish with chopped young jackfruit mixed with coconut and other spices. This dish influenced by Indian cuisine.
Nasi minyak		South Sumatra and Jambi	Rice dish	A cooked rice with ghee and spices.
Nasi padang		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	Rice dish	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 tempong		Javanese	Rice dish	Steamed rice usually served with fried fish, vegetables, and tempeh. Served with hot and spicy sambal. Specialty of Banyuwangi, East Java.
Nasi tim		Chinese Indonesian	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	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.
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.
Rijsttafel		Nationwide	Rice dish	Rice accompanied by side dishes served in small portions.
Tumpeng		Nationwide	Rice dish	Cone shaped rice surrounded with assorted dishes.
Uli bakar		West Java	Sticky rice	Grilled sticky rice, commonly eaten with oncom or serundeng grated coconut.

Savoury snacks

Name	Image	Region/Popularity	Type	Description
Ampo		Central Java and East Java	Soil food	A snack made by soil. The snack consists of pure clay, without any mixture of ingredients.
Arem-arem		Java	Dumpling, rice cake	Similar like lontong, but flavoured with coconut milk, and stuffed with cooked ground meat, or tofu and tempeh.
Bakcang		Chinese Indonesian	Dumpling, rice cake	Rice cake filled with meats, sometimes beans, mushroom, and salty egg, wrapped in bamboo leaves.
Bakwan		Nationwide	Fried dish	A traditional fritter consisting of vegetables and batter. The ingredients are vegetables; usually beansprouts, shredded cabbages and carrots, battered and deep fried in cooking oil.
Batagor		West Java	Dumpling, fishcake	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.
Bitterballen		Nationwide	Fried dish	A meat-based snack with round-shape, almost similar to kroket.
Cakwe		Java	Doughnut, fried dish	A long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough and commonly chopped or thinly sliced and then eaten for breakfast with bubur ayam.
Cilok		Bandung, West Java	Dumpling	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	Fried dish	A small snack made from rounded tapioca flour doughs which is then fried. Cimol comes from Bandung, West Java.
Cireng		West Java	Fried dish	A small snack made out of fried tapioca batter
Combro		Sundanese	Fried dish	A fritter made from grated cassava with round or oval-shape. This dish is filled of oncom and chilli.
Donat jawa		Javanese	Doughnut, fried dish	A Javanese-style of ring-shaped fritter made from cassava with savoury taste.
Donat kentang		Nationwide	Doughnut, fried dish	A ring-shaped fritter made from flour and mashed potatoes, coated in powder sugar or icing sugar.
Epok-epok		Malay	Dumpling, fried dish	A dumpling snack usually filled with chicken and potato with a dried curry inside.
Jalangkote		Makassarese	Dumpling, fried dish	Fried pastry with an empanada-shape and stuffed with vegetables, potatoes and eggs. Spicy, sweet and sour sauce will be dipped into prior to be eaten.
Jemput-jemput		Malay	Fried dish	A traditional Malay fritter snack made from flour and then fried. It is usually round in shape and tends to vary in size.
Kembang tahu		Chinese Indonesian	Soy food, tofu dish	Soft tofu with warm sweet ginger soup.
Kerak telor		Jakarta	Egg dish, omelette	It is made from chicken or duck egg made into omelette which is mixed with glutinous rice and spice, it is served with coconut granules.
Kroket		Nationwide	Fried dish	A type of croquette, made of mashed potato filled with minced chicken.
Kuaci		Nationwide	Edible plant seeds	A baked plant seeds, it can be sunflower or pumpkin seeds.
Lemper		Java	Dumpling, rice cake	A traditional rice cake, made from glutinous rice and filled usually with chicken.
Lepet		Javanese, Malay, and Sundanese	Dumpling, rice cake	Sticky rice dumpling mixed with peanuts cooked with coconut milk packed inside janur (young coconut leaf or palm leaf). It is similar to lontong, but with stickier texture and richer flavour acquired from coconut milk and peanuts.
Lumpia		Nationwide	Spring roll	A spring roll, made of thin paper-like or crepe-like pastry skin called "lumpia wrapper" enveloping savory or sweet fillings. It is often served as an appetizer or snack, and might be served deep fried or fresh (unfried).
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, pancake	Indonesian's version of Murtabak, sometimes filled with beef and scallions, or shreds of peanut and chocolate.
Martabak kubang		West Sumatra	Egg dish, pancake	Minangkabau-style of Indonesian martabak. It is Arab–Indian–Minangkabau fusion dish.
Mendoan		Central Java	Soy food, fried dish	Deep fried battered tempeh, cooked lightly in a short time and resulted in limp texture.
Nagasari		Nationwide	Dumpling, banana cake	Steamed rice cake wrapped in banana leaves, and stuffed with banana.
Ngo hiang		Chinese Indonesian	Fried dish	A deep-fried dish that consisting of vegetables with meat or shrimp seasoned with five-spice powder in a thin egg crêpe.
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.
Pai ti		Peranakan and Malay	Pastry	A thin and crispy pastry tart shell filled with a spicy, sweet mixture of thinly sliced vegetables and prawns.
Pangsit		Chinese Indonesian	Dumpling, wonton dish, fried dish	Fried or soupy wonton filled with chicken or shrimp with sweet and sour sauce or in gravy with noodles.
Pastel		Nationwide	Dumpling, fried dish	Fried flour dumpling filled with vegetables and meat.
Pastel tutup		Nationwide	Pie	A type of shepherd's pie that made with chicken and several vegetables.
Pisang cokelat		Java	Fried dish	A savoury snack made of slices of banana with melted chocolate or chocolate syrup, wrapped inside thin crepe-like pastry skin and being deep fried.
Pisang goreng		Nationwide	Fried dish	A battered and deep-fried banana or plantain.
Popiah		Chinese Indonesian	Spring roll	A spring roll with Chinese origin and Fujian-style. This dish almost equal to lumpia.
Risoles		Nationwide	Spring roll, pastry	Fried rolls with breadcrumbs filled with vegetables and meat.
Samosa		Malay, Arab Indonesian, and Indian Indonesian	Dumpling, fried dish	It is a fried or baked dish with a savoury filling, such as spiced potato, curry, cheese or rousong.
Semar mendem		Java	Dumpling, rice cake	A variant snack almost identical to lemper that made of glutinous rice filled with shredded seasoned chicken. Instead of banana leaf wrapping, semar mendem uses a thin omelette as wrapper, hence rendering the whole package edible.
Siomay		Sundanese and Chinese Indonesian	Dumpling, fishcake	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 or soy sauce.
Sumpia		Nationwide	Spring roll	Much smaller and drier lumpia with similar beef or prawn floss filling
Tahu aci		Tegal, Central Java	Soy food, tofu dish	A small snack made from tofu and flour. Its come from Tegal, Central Java.
Tahu gejrot		Cirebon, West Java	Soy food, tofu dish	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	Soy food, tofu dish	Deep fried tofu cut with scissors, served with a sauce made from rice flour, peanuts and chili.
Tahu sumedang		Sumedang, West Java	Soy food, tofu dish	Deep fried tofu, served with sweet soy sauce/kecap manis and chili.
Timphan		Aceh	Dumpling, banana cake	A steamed banana dumpling that consists of glutinous rice flour, ground banana and coconut milk. It is quite similar to Javanese or Buginese nagasari.

Sweet snacks

Name	Image	Region/Popularity	Type	Description
Bagea		Maluku Islands	Cake	A cake made of sago, has a round shape and creamy color. It has a hard consistency that can be softened in tea or water, to make it easier to chew.
Bahulu		Malay	Pastry	A Malay traditional cake with soft texture. Usually served for breakfast.
Bakpia		Nationwide, but especially in Java	Pastry, bean cake	A popular Indonesian bean-filled moon cake-like pastry.
Bakpia pathok		Yogyakarta	Pastry, bean cake	A small patty of baked pastry filled with sweet mung bean paste.
Brem		Madiun, East Java	Sweets	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.
Clorot		Nationwide, but especially Javanese	Sweets	Sticky dough of glutinous rice flour sweetened with coconut sugar filled into the cone-shaped janur (young coconut leaf), and steamed until cooked.
Dadar gulung		Javanese, today nationwide	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.
Gethuk		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	Cookie	It is made from dough flour, eggs, margarine, and grated cheese. This cake shaped rectangular. Usually served during Eid ul-Fitr, Christmas, and Chinese New Year.
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.
Klappertaart		Manado, North Sulawesi	Coconut custard	Tart made from flour, sugar, milk, butter, as well as coconut flesh and juice.
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 ape		Jakarta	Pancake	A thin wheat flour batter pancake with thicker part on the middle, colloquially called kue tetek (breast cake).
Kue busa or schuimpje		Nationwide	Pastry	A sweet pastry made of eggs that are beaten until foamy with fine sugar until stiff. Formed using triangular plastic and baked in the oven.
Kue carabikang		Java	Cake	A traditional cake made of rice flour shaped like flower-chapped and colorful. It tastes sweet.
Kue gapit		Cirebonese and Javanese	Waffle	A waffle-cracker snack that grilled between iron molds like a waffle generally.
Kue kaak		Arab Indonesian	Biscuit, cookie	A small circular biscuit as result of acculturation between Arabs and Indonesian.
Kue keranjang		Chinese Indonesian	Sweets	A food prepared from glutinous rice. Usually served during Chinese New Year.
Kue ku		Betawi, Javanese, 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	Pancake, 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.
Makmur		Malay	Pastry	A traditional Malay pastry, made from butter, ghee and flour. Usually served during special occasion of Eid ul-Fitr.
Kue pancong, bandros or gandos		Jakarta and West Java	Pastry	This cake is made from rice flour and coconut-based batter and cooked in a special mold pan, sprinkled with granulated sugar. Its shape is similar to kue pukis.
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 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 satu		Java	Cookie	White-colored traditional cookie with sweet mung beans powder that is crumbled when being bitten.
Kue sus		Nationwide	Pastry	A baked pastry filled with soft and moist cream made from the mixture of milk, sugar and flour.
Kukis jagung		Nationwide	Cookie	A type of cookie prepared with corn products.
Laklak		Bali	Pancake	Balinese traditional little pancake with grated coconut and melted palm sugar.
Lapis legit or spekuk		Nationwide	Layered cake	A spiced layered cake, made mainly of egg yolk, flour and margarine/butter.
Mochi		Chinese Indonesian and Japanese Indonesian	Sweet rice cake	Rice flour based cake filled with peanuts paste, sometimes sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Nastar		Nationwide	Pastry	It 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.
Onde-onde		Nationwide	Pastry, rice ball	Glutinous rice cake balls, filled with sweet green beans paste, and rolled in sesame seed and then fried.
Pinyaram		Minangkabau and Malay	Cake	A traditional cake made from mixture of white sugar or palm sugar, white rice flour or black rice, and coconut milk.
Semprong		Nationwide	Egg roll	A wafer snack made by clasping egg batter using an iron mold which is heated up on a charcoal stove.
Serabi		Java	Pancake	Rice pancake that is made from rice flour with coconut milk or shredded coconut as an emulsifier.
Spekulaas		Nationwide	Biscuit, cookie	A thin, very crunchy, caramelized, and slightly browned cookie, derived from Dutch cuisine.
Stroopwafel		Nationwide	Waffle	A wafer cookie made from two thin layers of baked dough joined by a caramel filling.
Terang bulan		Nationwide	Pancake	Originally a Chinese snack, but nowadays it is labelled as murtabak.
Untir-untir		Java	Doughnut, fried dish	Dough twist that is fried in peanut oil. It has a shiny and golden look with crispy taste.
Wajik		Nationwide, but especially Javanese	Sweets	A diamond-shaped compressed sweet glutinous rice cake.
Wingko		Semarang, Central Java	Coconut cake	A sweet baked coconut cake. This dish almost similar to bibingka.

Crackers, chips, and crisps

Name	Image	Region/Popularity	Type	Description
Amplang		Java and Kalimantan	Cracker	Savoury fish cracker snack, made from wahoo or any type of Spanish mackerel.
Emping		Nationwide	Cracker	Crackers made from flattened Gnemon/Belinjo seeds.
Intip		Java	Cracker	Similar to rengginang but larger. A traditional thick scorched rice cracker, made from cooked rice that stuck in the inner part of rice pot, seasoned with salt.
Kemplang		Malay and Palembangese	Cracker	Savoury fish cracker snack, made from wahoo or any type of Spanish mackerel. This dish similar to amplang.
Keripik		Nationwide	Crisps, chips	A traditional chips or crisps, bite-size snack crackers that can be savoury or sweet.
Keripik pisang		Nationwide	Crisps, chips	Crispy banana chips.
Keripik sanjai		Minangkabau	Crisps, chips	Sliced cassava chips.
Keripik teripang		Surabaya, Gresik, and Lamongan in East Java	Crisps, chips	A traditional chips or crisps made of dried sea cucumber.
Kerupuk		Nationwide	Cracker, crisps	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.
Kerupuk kulit sapi or kerbau		Nationwide	Cracker, crisps	Cow or buffalo skin crackers.
Kerupuk kulit babi		Chinese Indonesian and Balinese	Cracker, crisps	Pork skin crackers.
Kerupuk ikan		Nationwide	Cracker	A deep fried snack made from starch and fish.
Kerupuk udang		Nationwide	Cracker	A deep fried snack made from starch and prawn.
Rempeyek		Nationwide, but especially Javanese	Cracker	A deep-fried savoury Javanese cracker, made from flour with other ingredients, bound or coated by crispy flour batter.
Rengginang		Nationwide	Cracker	A traditional thick rice cracker, made from cooked glutinous sticky rice and seasoned with spices. This dish made into a flat and rounded-shape.
Sale pisang		Java	Crisps, chips	A chips-like snack that made of bananas which are combed thin and then dried in the sun. After dried in the sun, it can be directly eaten or fried first.

Spices

Herbs

• Indonesian bay leaves (daun salam)
• Kaffir lime Leaves (daun jeruk purut)
• 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)