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Madurese cuisine is a cuisine tradition of Madurese people from Madura Island in Indonesia. This cuisine also known in East Java as well as on the south coast of Kalimantan. Madura cuisine has salty, savoury and spicy tastes with Javanese-influenced.

Madurese foods add petis ikan which is made from fish instead of shrimp. The Madurese-style satay is probably the most popular satay variants in Indonesia. Some of its popular dishes are chicken satay, mutton satay, Madurese soto, goat soup and peanut sauce. As a leading salt production center in Indonesian archipelago, Madura dishes are often saltier compared to other East Javanese foods.

List of Madurese foods

Dishes

Snacks and desserts

  • Apem, traditional cake of steamed dough made of rice flour, coconut milk, yeast and palm sugar, usually served with grated coconut.
  • Dawet, iced sweet dessert that contains droplets of green rice flour jelly, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.
  • Lopis, traditional sweet cake made of glutinous rice, served with grated coconut and drizzled with thick coconut sugar syrup.
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