10 Recipes
Klepon
Pandan-green glutinous rice balls filled with palm sugar that bursts when bitten, rolled in freshly grated coconut.
Kue Lapis
A steamed layer cake of rice flour and coconut milk set in alternating pink and white stripes, slippery and sweet.
Dadar Gulung
Pandan green crepes rolled around a filling of sweetened coconut and palm sugar cooked until fragrant.
Bika Ambon
A porous, honeycomb-textured cake from Medan made with tapioca, coconut milk, and pandan, springy and aromatic.
Es Teler
A popular Indonesian dessert drink of avocado, coconut flesh, jackfruit, and sweetened condensed milk over shaved ice.
Bubur Sumsum
White rice flour porridge cooked smooth in coconut milk and served with liquid palm sugar poured over the top.
Serabi
Traditional Javanese coconut milk pancakes with crispy edges cooked in a clay mold over charcoal, topped with palm sugar.
Getuk
Mashed cassava sweetened with sugar and colored with pandan or pink food coloring, shaped and sprinkled with coconut.
Putu
Cylindrical steamed rice flour cakes with a palm sugar center, cooked in bamboo tubes with a whistle of steam.
Wajik
Diamond-shaped glutinous rice cakes cooked with palm sugar, coconut milk, and pandan until sticky and shiny.