Cara Membuat Lontong | How To Make Homemade Lontong
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Lontong
Lontong or compressed rice is another kind form of presentation to enjoy rice. Traditionally lontong is cooked in a rolled-up banan leaf or cylinder shaped container made of banana leaf, or during Ramadhan month it called ketupat or rice cooked in a woven container made of coconut frond. Being cooked in limited space, the grains or rice are absorbed water and pressed to form a soft and solid mass.
Nowadays, banana leaf or coconut frond is not widely available due to scarcity especially in non tropical countries. If they are available,then become pricey. Alternatively, plastic can be used for making lontong. Here is easy way to make lontong without banana leaf or coconut frond. Also find other recipe to make lontong such as traditional lontong with banana leaf, traditional ketupat with coconut frond and pressure cooked lontong.
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Nowadays, banana leaf or coconut frond is not widely available due to scarcity especially in non tropical countries. If they are available,then become pricey. Alternatively, plastic can be used for making lontong. Here is easy way to make lontong without banana leaf or coconut frond. Also find other recipe to make lontong such as traditional lontong with banana leaf, traditional ketupat with coconut frond and pressure cooked lontong.
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Table of Contents
- Lontong Poll
- Easy way to make lontong
- Ingredients for making lontong
- Ketupat
- Tips for making good lontong
- Cooking pot for making lontong
- Lontong and ketupat dishes photo
- How to serve lontong
- Ketupat on Amazon
- Lontong Recipes
- Ketupat on Amazon
- Lontong dishes recipes
- Asian cooking books on Amazon
- Lontong on videos
- More Indonesian recipes
- More Asian recipes
- Thanks for your visit
Lontong Poll
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Easy way to make lontong
- Serves: 4-6
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 24 hours
Ingredients
- 2 bags of parboiled long grain rice in plastic bag or known as boil-in-bag rice
Instructions
In a large saucepan or cooking pot, fill about 2/3 full of cold water and bring it rolling boil. Add in rice bags and boil them about at least 1 1/2 hours. Add some very hot water if needed to make sure the rice is always covered with water.
After 1 1/2 hours, the rice bags will be plumped. Take out the bags and drain the water. Then let them cool and put them in fridge for a night.
When it's time to serve, strip off the plastic bags and discard them. Cut the lontong into desired chunks and ready to serve.
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Ingredients for making lontong
This parboiled rice in bags are perfect for making lontong. Made of long grain rice and enrich with some vitamins and minerals. The result is always superb; solid firm lontong. Highly recommended.
Uncle Ben's Boil-in-Bag Rice, 15.8-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
Amazon Price: $52.56 (as of 06/01/2012)
Ketupat
Important!
Tips for making good lontong
Use regular parboild long grain rice and not precooked or easy-cook.
Use long grain rices to make firm lontong than Jasmine or other Asian rices.
The rice should fill about 1/3 full of the perforated plastic bag. If the bags are big then, reduce it by sealer machined.
Use long grain rices to make firm lontong than Jasmine or other Asian rices.
The rice should fill about 1/3 full of the perforated plastic bag. If the bags are big then, reduce it by sealer machined.
Cooking pot for making lontong
You may need good cooking pot for making lontong. This 5 qt pot is big enough to make at least 4 bags of lontong. Made of non stick material therefor cleaning is not a messy job. This pot also multi function. It can be used for making chili, soup, or stew.
Simply Calphalon SA8785HP Nonstick 5-Quart Chili Pot
Amazon Price: $39.95 (as of 06/01/2012)
How to serve lontong
Lontong is mostly eaten cold and served as companion of satay/sate, gado-gado (cooked vegetables salad), pecel, ketoprak, sambal goreng and rendang. It can be eaten with soupy dishes such as lontong sayur, soto, sayur lodeh, laksa, lontong kikil, lontong balap, etc.
Ketupat on Amazon
If you like to make ketupat palas (glutinous rice cube), it is available online
Easy way to make ketupat ketan/palas or glutinous rice cube. Follow the instruction in the box to get good result.
Nona Glutinous Rice Cube (Ketupat Palas), 15-Ounce (Pack of 4)
Amazon Price: (as of 06/01/2012)
Lontong Recipes
Different ways of making lontong
- Lontong recipe
- Traditional way of making lontong. Using banana leaf as wrapper.
- Lontong recipe
- Use muslin cloths as wrapper if plastic and banana leaf are not available
- Lontong recipe
- Step by step making lontong using banana leaf. Include a video how to wrap it.
- Lontong recipe
- How to make lontong using coconut frond or it is called ketupat
- Lontong recipe
- How to make lontong using pressure cooking to reduce cooking time.
Membuat lontong menggunakan pressure cooker - Nasi impit recipe
- How to make Malaysian style nasi impit (compressed rice)
Ketupat on Amazon
Making ketupat in plastic bag
If parboiled rice is not available or you would like to get more traditional Asian rice taste, then you can get ketupat in plastic bags from Malaysia. This product is good replacement for American long grain boil in bags.
Nona Rice Cake (Ketupat), 9-Ounce Packages (Pack of 10)
Amazon Price: (as of 06/01/2012)
Lontong dishes recipes
- Lontong kikil recipe
- How to make beef tendon sup (kikil) with lontong
- Vegetarian lontong recipe
- How to make spicy coconut vegetarian stew with lontong
- Chayote lontong recipe
- How to make chayote and tempeh stew with lontong
- Lontong balap recipe
- How to make lontong balap, traditional East Java food
- Resep lontong ayam
- Chicken lontong recipe. How to make chicken curry with lontong
- Resep lontong sayur Medan
- Favorite lontong dish from Medan, Sumatera
Asian cooking books on Amazon
You may like to learn about Malaysian dishes and recipes including how to make lontong and other dishes
This is a must for Asian food lovers especially Malaysia. Consist of authentic recipes such as roti canai, rendang, lontong, laksa, etc.
Authentic Recipes from Malaysia (Authentic Recipes Series)
Amazon Price: $7.01 (as of 06/01/2012)
Lontong on videos
How to make lontong and lontong dishes
- Making lontong
- How to make lontong
- Making ketupat casing
- How to make woven ketupat casing
- Lontong kupang
- Video about traditional lontong KUpang from Surabaya, East Java
- Lontong balap
- Video about lontong balap from Surabaya
- Lontong opor
- Lontong opor from Jakarta
More Indonesian recipes
- Resep ayam bakar kecap
- Indonesian BBQ chicken recipe
- Resep lontong pecel
- Indonesian salad with lontong
- Resep abon sapi
- Bagaimana membuat abon sapi sendiri di rumah
- Resep ayam besengek
- Bagaimana membuat ayam besengek bakar
- Resep ayam suharti
- Bagaimana membuat ayam goreng ala restoran Suharti
- Resep ketupat sayur
- Bagaimana membuat ketupat sayur sederhana namun enak
- Resep nasi goreng babat
- Cara membuat nasi goreng babat ala Semarang
- Resep daging bumbu Bali
- Cara mengolah daging sapi ala Bali dengan rasa pedas manis
- Resep dendeng manis
- Cara membuat dendeng manis sendiri di rumah
- Resep ayam betutu
- Masakan ayam khas dari Bali
- Resep gurame bakar
- Bagaimana cara membuat gurame bakar yang gurih dan segar
- Resep kue mangkok
- Cara membuat kue mangkok yang mekar dan manis
- Resep kue kering nastar
- Membuat sendiri kue kering nastar di rumah
More Asian recipes
Thanks for your visit
Do you like lontong ? Share your experience here.
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cffutah
Jan 16, 2012 @ 9:29 pm | delete
- I do read this as its in a different language but the photos are just great!
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nophie
Dec 21, 2011 @ 1:24 am | delete
- Every i read or hear "lontong", I imagine Sate..... =)) Yummy
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VioleTanteIffa
Nov 21, 2011 @ 9:04 am | delete
- my Mum cooked it:),so yummy....
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blanckj
Sep 1, 2011 @ 6:48 am | delete
- I learn something new every day.
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