Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lontong (rice cake). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lontong (Rice Cake) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Lontong (Rice Cake) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have lontong (rice cake) using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lontong (Rice Cake):

1. Make ready 1 1/2 c long grain rice
2. Take 6 c water (add more hot water if needed)
3. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
4. Make ready 1 sheet banana leaf (optional)

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. In Indonesian term, Lontong and Ketupat are loosely translated the same "rice cake".

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.

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. Indonesia Eats based in Canada, lets me know that she uses special lontong molds.

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