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Klepon is a boiled rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar (gula jawa/merah/melaka) and coated in flaked coconut. [6] The dough is made from glutinous rice flour, sometimes mixed with tapioca (or sweet potato alternatively) [5] and a paste made from the leaves of the pandan or dracaena plants — whose leaves are used widely in Southeast Asian cooking — giving the dough its green colour.
Bumbu is the Indonesian word for a blend of spices and for pastes and it commonly appears in the names of spice mixtures, sauces and seasoning pastes. The official Indonesian language dictionary describes bumbu as "various types of herbs and plants that have a pleasant aroma and flavour — such as ginger, turmeric, galangal, nutmeg and pepper — used to enhance the flavour of the food."
Gula jawa has an earthy aroma and deep sweetness with a darker colour closely resembling molasses, [8] while gula aren has paler colour. [9] Gula melaka is a type of palm sugar made from the sap of flower buds from the coconut palm, or less commonly, other palms. [10] It can be dense and sticky.
Gula melaka is a Southeast Asian name for palm sugar [4] or "malacca sugar", [5] probably named for its origin in the state of Malacca, Malaysia. [6] It is usually derived from coconut palms, but sometimes from other palms. [5] It is used in savory dishes, but mainly in local desserts and cakes of the Southeast Asian region. [citation needed]
Bihun goreng, bee hoon goreng or mee hoon goreng refers to a dish of fried noodles cooked with rice vermicelli in both the Indonesian and Malay languages. [1] In certain countries, such as Singapore, the term goreng is occasionally substituted with its English equivalent for the name of the dish.
The sweet and spicy-hot bumbu rujak dressing is made of water, gula jawa , asem jawa , crushed peanuts, terasi (prawn paste), salt, bird's eye chilli and red chilli. All of the fruits are cut to bite-size pieces, and put in the dish. [15] The bumbu rujak or thick sweet spicy rujak dressing is poured on the fruit slices.
Ketupat (in Indonesian and Malay), or kupat (in Javanese and Sundanese), or tipat (in Balinese) [4] is a Javanese rice cake packed inside a diamond-shaped container of woven palm leaf pouch. [5]
Pindang refers to a cooking method in the Indonesian and Malay language of boiling ingredients in brine or acidic solutions. [8] [9] Usually employed to cook fish or egg, the technique is native to Sumatra especially in Palembang, but has spread to Java and Kalimantan. [10]