Original Lontong Recipe

What is Lontong ?

Lontong is Indonesian dish traditionally made by partly cooking the rice and packing it tightly into rolled-up banana leaf. Sometimes lontong packed in plastic bags, but banana leaf gives the lontong a delicious earthy flavor. The leaf is secured with lidi semat / toothpick.

Once the compacted rice has cooled, it can be cut up into bite-sized pieces. The outer parts usually have greenish color because of the chlorophyll left by banana leaf rub off on rice cake surface.

Lontong can be eaten with satay, ketoprak or with a gado gado, it’s very popular food in Indonesia.

Ingredients :

• 75 grams dry pandan rice pp
• pandan leaf
• lemongrass
• pinch of salt
• fresh banana leaf

Directons :

1. Add water until one phalanx above the rice.
2. Cook the rice with the pandan leaf, lemongrass and the salt.
3. Take it off the heat as little wholes start to form on the service and the rice still looks pretty wet.
4. Stir this through thoroughly until the rice starts to come together a bit
5. Let the rice cool for 15 minutes
6. Stir it through once again before use
7. Cut the banana leaf in 3 finger long pieces
8. Rinse with water and with boiling hot water and wipe clean and cry
9. Add a sauce of rice to one side of a banana leaf.
10. Form it well into a tight sausage shape and roll it close and tight
11. Close the sides with a toothpick
12. Cook the lontong on low heat for one hour
13. After one hour take them out of the water immediately and drain straight up.
14. Let the lontong cool completely. For best, leave in the fridge overnight
15. Your meal is ready.

Also Read : How to Make Lontong Sayur