Indonesian
Lontong (Compressed Rice Cakes)
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Lontong (Compressed Rice Cakes) is Indonesian home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the rice and toss it with the salt.
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Roll each banana leaf sheet into a cylinder, fill it about halfway with rice to leave room for expansion, and secure both ends with a toothpick or string.
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Lower the parcels into a pot of boiling water, making sure they stay fully submerged, and simmer until the rice inside is firm and fully set, about 90 minutes, topping up water as needed.
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Lift out the parcels and cool completely before unwrapping.
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Slice into cakes and serve alongside a curry or vegetable dish.
Watch how to cook Lontong (Compressed Rice Cakes)
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Serve it with
A Indonesian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lontong (Compressed Rice Cakes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The protein alongside
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Lontong (Compressed Rice Cakes) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 200 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 45 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 300 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Lontong (Compressed Rice Cakes) takes about 100 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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