Savoury Snacks
Name | Image | Region | Type | Description |
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Arem-arem | Java | Rice cake | Similar like lontong, but flavored with coconut milk, and stuffed with cooked ground meat, or tahu/tofu and tempeh. | |
Asinan Betawi | Jakarta | Vegetarian food | ||
Bakcang | Chinese Indonesian | Rice cake | Rice cake filled with meats, sometimes beans and mushroom, wrapped in bamboo leafs. | |
Cimol | Bandung, West Java | A small snack made from rounded tapioca flour doughs which is then fried. Cimol comes from Banten, West Java. | ||
Emping | Nationwide | Crakers | Crackers made from flattened Gnemon/Belinjo seeds. | |
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 colors. | |
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. | |
Mendoan | Central Java | 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. | |
Risoles | Nationwide | Spring roll | Fried rolls with breadcrumbs filled with vegetables and meat. | |
Rujak | Nationwide | Fruit or vegetable salad | There are many kinds of rujak, the most common one is Rujak Buah (fruit rujak). Rujak petis is a popular dish from Surabaya, a mixture of vegetables, tofu, tempeh with black fish paste sauce. Rujak manis, is a mixture of fruit covered with sweet and spicy coconut sugar sauce, sometimes ground peanut is also added to the sauce. | |
Pangsit Goreng | Indonesian Chinese | Wonton 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. | |
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. | |
Batagor | West Java | Fishcake and dumpling | (Batagor is actually an abbreviation of BAkso TAhu GOReng (which literally means fried tofu and meatballs), it's a variant of the siomay in which the siomay was deep-fried. | |
Serabi/Surabi | Nationwide | Pancake | An Indonesian snack that is made from rice flour with coconut milk or just plain shredded coconut as an emulsifier. Do keep in mind that each province in Indonesia has varying Srabi recipes corresponding to local tastes and available ingredients. | |
Tahu Aci & Tahu Pletok | Tegal, Central Java | Tofu and soy food | A small snack made from tofu and flour. Its come from Tegal, 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. | |
Tempeh Bacem | Java | Soy food | Tempeh stewed in coconut sugar and spices, then deep fried. It has sweet and savory flavor. | |
Terang Bulan | Bangka Belitung, Sumatra, nationwide | Pastry | Originally a Chinese snack, but nowadays it is labelled as murtabak. | |
Kembang Tahu | Indonesian Chinese | Tofu and soy food | Soft tofu with sweet ginger sauce. | |
Tahu | 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. |
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