20 of my Favorite Recipes for Traditional Indonesian Food (2024)

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What is traditional Indonesian food? ›

Considered Indonesia's national dish, nasi goreng is a fried rice with sweet, thick soy sauce and acar, pickled cucumber and carrots. One of Indonesia's favorite comfort foods, soto is a traditional meat soup comprises of ingredients that vary across the country. Most underrated part of great satay? The stick.

Indonesian typical communal meal, consisting of nasi (steamed rice), lauk-pauk (side dishes), and sayur-mayur (vegetables). Indonesian traditional meals usually consists of steamed rice as staple, surrounded by vegetables and soup and meat or fish side dishes.

Traditional breakfast is bubur ayam (porridge) and nasi goreng (fried rice). More modern breakfast is half-boiled egg with milk, roti tawar with meses (plain bread with butter/margarine and chocolate sprinkles) or store-bought bread with chocolate/cheese/other fillings.

Recognized as Indonesia's all time favorite dish, Nasi Goreng or Fried rice is a meal that can be taken any time; for breakfast, lunch or even dinner.

One of the most delicious foods from Indonesia has to be rendang. It's a flavorful and tender beef stew that's slow-cooked with a rich blend of coconut milk and a mix of aromatic spices. The combination of lemongrass, galangal, turmeric, and other spices gives rendang its unique and irresistible taste.

Indonesian street food often tastes rather strong and spicy. Much street food in Indonesia is fried, such as assorted gorengan (fritters), also nasi goreng (fried rice), mie goreng (fried noodles) and ayam goreng (fried chicken), while bakso meatball soup, traditional soto soups and fruit rujak are also popular.

Recognized as Indonesia's all time favorite dish, Nasi Goreng or Fried rice is a meal that can be taken any time; for breakfast, lunch or even dinner.

Indonesian cuisine is heavily influenced by the Indian way of cooking. That's why most of its dishes have varying levels of hotness and spiciness, such as rendang, sambal, and penyetan. However, Indian dishes are much hotter than many Indonesian dishes.

Nasi goreng is distinguished from other Asian fried rice recipes by its aromatic, earthy and smoky flavour. Nasi goreng is traditionally served at home for breakfast and it is traditionally made out of leftover rice from the night before.

Do Indonesian eat with chopsticks? ›

Indonesia and Malaysia

Chopsticks in Malay-speaking countries such as Brunei, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia are used for eating noodles almost exclusively, whilst spoon and/or fork are used for eating rice, and sometimes use of hands as well.