Lontong (Rice Cake)
Lontong (Rice Cake)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lontong (rice cake). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lontong (Rice Cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lontong (Rice Cake) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Lontong or loosely translated as Rice Cake is very popular in South East Asia especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is made of rice grains wrapped and cooked in banana leaves. It is slightly greenish in color (color transferred from the banana leaves) and it goes with many dishes such as Satay Padang , Ketoprak , sometimes in Gado.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lontong (rice cake) using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lontong (Rice Cake):
  1. Make ready 1 1/2 c long grain rice
  2. Get 6 c water (add more hot water if needed)
  3. Make ready 1 tbsp salt
  4. Prepare 1 sheet banana leaf (optional)

Ingredients Long Grain Rice, washed & drain well. Lontong is a cylinder look of rice cake that is traditionally wrapped in banana leaf and boiled until solid. Thou the translation is rice cake, this lontong is not for dessert. It's a kind of cooked rice substitution.

Steps to make Lontong (Rice Cake):
  1. Wash rice 2-3 times and put it in rice cooker.
  2. Add salt and water and turn on the rice cooker. If your rice cooker is too small add water (boiling hot) when the Cook button is off, and cook again.
  3. When it starts to bubble, stir every now and then. Cook until Keep Warm button is on.
  4. Lay a deep casserole dish with clean banana leaf.
  5. Put the very sticky wet porridge into the dish and spread it out. Cover with banana leaf and make sure to cover all corners. Cool it down.
  6. Serve this with Gado-gado (warm Indonesian salad), laksa/soto (coconut milk soup with meat), chicken/goat sate. I will upload the recipes later. In the photo I put chicken curry, chokoes-carrot-quail eggs veg in coconut milk.

In Indonesian term, Lontong and Ketupat are loosely translated the same "rice cake". The difference is the shape and. Embed pieces stick, toothpick, or staples on both ends of the roll. Lontong is an Indonesian rice cake made -traditionally- in a banana leaf. I sometimes buy lontong rice in plastic bags, but banana leaf gives the lontong a delicious earthy flavor.

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