27 Typical Betawi Food

The country of Indonesia is very rich in culture. Not only about customs, but also about the food that is owned from every region in Indonesia. Just like the Betawi people, who have a lot of food types of pride.

Some of these foods must have often you see and feel the pleasure. Well, here is a typical Betawi food that will definitely arouse your appetite.

1. Egg crust
   
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   Egg crust is one among the typical food of Betawi people who have the shape resembles martabak, but the contents are different. Egg crust is a roll of egg cooked on a stove with a frying pan filled with sticky rice and sweet potatoes. It is this contents that distinguish the egg crust with martabak egg.

When you visit the city of Jakarta do not hesitate to snack the egg crust with a fairly affordable price. Even at festivals like Pekan Raya Jakarta, the crust of eggs is easily found if you want to taste the delicacy of this special food of Betawi people.

1. Rice Uduk
   
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   Rice uduk also become one among the pride of Betawi people will taste culinary in Indonesia. Nasi uduk is processed rice with seasoning such as salt, coconut milk, bay leaf, lemongrass leaves, and orange leaves.

The taste of uduk rice is very tasty and tasty, anyone who consume it will certainly give a thumbs up to serve the typical taste of uduk rice as a delicious and tasty flavor gesture on the tongue.

Nasi uduk typical Betawi is generally served with egg omelets that are small slices and jengkol stews, fried chicken, fried empal meat, balado potatoes, and chilli sauce that will increase appetite.

1. Gado - Gado
   
   Gado - gado is a special food of Betawi society. If in the western culinary world known salad, gado - gado is a salad of Betawi people.

Gado - gado consists of various vegetable dishes are generally served together with lontong or ketupat sprinkled with fried onions and smeared with peanut sauce with a taste that is qualified.

We can easily find this gado - gado food in the city of Jakarta, because gado - gado much favored by all the people not only the Betawi people only.

Freshness of processed various vegetables certainly add vitamins and nutrients to the consumption, while the splash of peanut sauce will surely create its own sensation in the tongue of people who consume them.

1. Semur Jengkol
   
   Semur Jengkol is a special food of Betawi society, where jengkol fruit is processed in such a way by way of spraying. When you visit the house of the Betawi people, you will surely find almost all Betawi people like on jengkol sticks.

Semur jengkol can be processed with the level of spiciness in accordance with our tongue. It tastes delicious and delicious to make anyone tempted, although jengkol popular with the smell that is not delicious in the nose when consumed.

But with processed stews, jengkol can be processed delicious and delicious cuisine for anyone who tasted it.

1. Soto Betawi
   
   Indonesia is popular with a variety of soup dishes, Betawi people also have their own processing of soup called Soto Betawi. Soto Betawi is processed by using coconut milk with beef, tomato, and potatoes.

Soto Betawi is very delicious and very appropriate when served with warm white rice. This food is very fitting to be a lunch menu. The thick sauce from Soto Betawi is very tasty on the tongue.

Soto Betawi can also be one of Betawi food that still remain durable and not lost swallowed by the change of modernization flows in the city of jakarta

1. Crocodile Bread
   
   Who does not know crocodile bread? Crocodile bread is a typical food of Betawi society, especially when Betawi people want to organize the event of marriage and marriage, crocodile bread is a mandatory menu that needs to be in the event.

In addition to the delicious taste, this bread is named as bread crocodile, because the form of bread made similar to the form of crocodile animals. There are many bakeries in the city of Jakarta who specialized in providing this crocodile bread for consumption by the public.

1. Betawi Betawi
   
   Not only the Bogor and Bandung areas are popular with processed pickles, Betawi people also have processed pickled food that has its own characteristics. Processed pickled is named Asinan Betawi, because it is in the process with a distinctive taste of Betawi society.

This Betawi sauce contains vegetables served with roasted peanuts, peanut sauce, krupuk, chili, and vinegar, this is what distinguishes Betawi pickles with other pickled especially in West Java. Because the form and the basic material that is not the same, but the naming of food with the word asinan indeed be the point of equation.

1. Cake Bowl
   
   Cucur Cucur is a typical snacks of Betawi people. This food is often served as a dessert menu by the Betawi people. Cake that has a thick texture in the middle but thin on the edges is one of the processed cake typical of Betawi people.

Why is it called pie cake? Investigate a calibaration, the name of this pie cake because of how to make it by dripping in a lot of dough on a baking sheet. Breeding language "ngocor"; but by some immigrants smoothed into "pouring", be "burrs".

In traditional activities of Betawi people, pie cake is one of the mandatory menu also that needs to be served, in order to validity of the customary event. So it can be said as a vegetable without salt if the Betawi customary activities do not serve cake.

1. Dodol Betawi
   
   Dodol Betawi is a brownish-black food where the variety tastes less than the dodol in Indonesia in general.

The taste of this Betawi dodol is only divided into the flavor of white sticky rice, black sticky rice and durian. Dodol Betawi is very delicious to be enjoyed let alone served as a friend to drink tea in the afternoon or afternoon.

Dodol Betawi comes from sticky rice, brown sugar, sugar and coconut milk cooked on a stove with fuel wood fuel. It tastes delicious and delicious to be one food with its own taste for the Betawi people.

1. Putu Mayang
   
   Putu Mayang is one of the traditional cakes typical of the Betawi community which is made from starch or rice flour mixed with coconut milk and brown sugar.

How to consume this cake is generally done by watering brown sugar and coconut milk or give a sprinkling of coconut on sugar putu mayang to be eaten. This cake is one of the Betawi people's pride in the culinary world in Indonesia.

1. Rangi Cookies
   
   This rye cake is also a native Betawi food. Made from rice flour (finely crushed white rice, it is said that if the rice flour is not good enough) then the rice flour dough is baked on semicircular mold on low heat. After cooking, the cake is lifted and served with a brownish-brown sugar water melt.

2. True Cake
   
   This cake is made from glutinous rice flour cooked with sugar and then steamed. This cake is usually made with small shapes that come from the prints. So it can make it easy to eat it.

3. Sweet Cente Cake
   
   This cake is steamed with ingredients made from hunkwe flour, coconut milk, sugar, as well as sweet cente grains or sago pearls that have matured. Then everything is wrapped in plastic wrap and then steamed.

4. Getuk Lindri
   
   Getuk Lindri is a type of food made from finely shredded cassava, steamed after mixed with sugar, then cut into pieces with a special fluted knife. Served with grated coconut that has been steamed and salt. Getuk Lindri can also be found in many areas of Java. Could be, this is not the original Betawi but the culinary culture of Java brought by some migrants to Betawi past.

5. Roti Gambang
   
   This food is a food that is almost extinct. As a child first, this food is sold by many people but since many Betawi people migrate out of Jakarta, it is rare to sell this food.

Gambang bread is actually a kind of sponge cake, it's just the difference gambang bread does not use white sugar but uses brown sugar as a sweetener food. So in the end the color is brown like brown sugar.

1. Pletok Beer
   
   Do not be afraid, even though the name is beer, but this is not real beer. This is a drink stirred with ice in the bamboo until the sound is noisy (heard pletok-pletok so). It tastes sweet, sweet and spicy, like beer. Finally, named pletok beer.

Origin, because the first Dutch colonizer Betawi likes to drink beer when being gathered at night. Then, to please them, a drink is made that has the same function as beer that warms the body, but the version does not contain alcohol. A warm feeling is obtained from ginger. This drink is drunk with a glass of bamboo. Well, berambya bamboo and ice is what causes the sound pletok.

1. Ice Doger
   
   This ice is original from betawi. Nowadays, doger ice has spread everywhere. Almost at all events there is always a choice of ice menu doger. Ice doger consists of various contents, there is ice, pearls, black rice, tape, and also bread.

2. Kue Pancong
   
   Actually this is still the twin sister of rangi cake. Because indeed the shape and some of the same manufacturing materials. The difference is, the fragrant cake is consumed with a sugar brown sugar sauce that is doused on the cake, while the pancong cake is consumed with a sprinkling of sugar sprinkled on it.

3. Lupis Cake
   
   Resembling lamang from Sumatra is actually this cake. It's just a triangle. Perhaps, this cake was brought by some Sumatra people who tried their luck in the city of Betawi past and make adjustments because it is difficult to cook by putting it in bamboo like in Sumatra. Be cooked by wrapping it with banana leaves as well as a practical step with a triangular shape.

4. Wajik
   
   Same with dodol, this diamond seems the result of cultural acculturation of some immigrants from all over Indonesia to Betawi past. Because diamonds are not only owned by Betawi but also in many places in Indonesia

1. Sagon
   
   Sagon is made from the basic ingredients of grated coconut, glutinous rice and baked sugar. Sagon is a cake that is a proof of urbanization to the city of Jakarta since antiquity. Perhaps it is because the city of Jakarta has a sea port in the Dutch colonial era or the Portuguese used to be the main port for traffic from and out of Indonesia.

Bandar Jakarta is also used as a trading center since the colonial era. That's why many people are trying to make a fortune in the city of Jakarta since time immemorial and resulted in bringing their local culture. This coconut sago cake can be found in Sumatra, Java and even to Kalimantan with various types of forms.

1. Rice Ulam
   
   Ulam rice is a typical Betawi food that also gained influence from Chinese culinary culture. Ulam rice generally uses pera rice sprinkled with stirred potatoes / stews tofu / egg stews. Ulam rice is also added with fried salted squid, fried rice noodles, sliced ​​omelet, and potato cakes. Ulam rice will add delicious with the addition of basil leaves, chili sauce, fried onions, and ground mashed ground sprinkles.

2. Lontong Sayur / Ketupat Sayur
   
   Ketupat vegetable is a typical Betawi food commonly used as a breakfast menu. Ketupat vegetables are made from slices of ketupat / lontong with a tasty coconut milk sauce. Sprinkles of fried vegetables such as fried onions, soybeans, and crackers / chips.

3. Ketoprak
   
   Ketoprak made of ketupat or lontong combined with vermicelli, toge, and tofu. Betawi Ketoprak with delicious flavor is watered and stirred with peanut sauce. Ketoprak is also sprinkled with crackers. This typical Betawi food also includes heavy food that is rather 'light'.

4. Laksa Betawi
   
   Laksa came from Cibinong area which then penetrated to Jakarta as Laksa Betawi. Betawi Laksa businessman is generally Betawi Chinese. Laksa is a food type sepinggan berkuah. Laksa contains vermicelli, egg, cake, basil leaf, and chives. This Chinese culinary dish has a tasty and sweet taste.

5. Pindang Bandeng
   
   Pindang bandeng almost like stews but there is addition of star fruit wuluh. The taste of pindang bandeng is so delicious and fresh. Same also with rice uduk, generally pindang bandeng eaten at breakfast and cooked on the afternoon before.

6. Soto Tangkan
   
   This typical food was born at the time of Dutch colonialism. At that time, the Betawi people can only buy ribs of beef with a little meat (anchor). Then, the Betawi people turned him into a good soto. Currently, soto tangkar plus meat and offal. Soto tangkar coconut milk but it is not too 'heavy'.

Those are some of the Betawi specialties that some of you have often met and you feel. And some of them are also somewhat difficult to find, because the sellers are already reduced. Finally we can only imagine it's just yes.