Madurese cuisine facts for kids
Madurese cuisine is the traditional food from the Madurese people. They live on Madura Island in Indonesia. You can also find their delicious food in East Java and on the south coast of Kalimantan. Madurese food often tastes salty, savory, and spicy. It also has some influences from Javanese cuisine.
A special ingredient in Madurese food is petis ikan. This is a paste made from fish, not shrimp. The Madurese-style satay is very famous. It might be the most popular type of satay in all of Indonesia. Some other well-known dishes include chicken satay, mutton satay, Madurese soto (a type of soup), goat soup, and peanut sauce. Madura is a big center for salt production. Because of this, Madurese dishes are often saltier than other foods from East Java.
Popular Madurese Dishes
Madurese cuisine offers many tasty main dishes. They often feature duck, corn, or different types of rice.
Main Meals
- Bebek guring: This is a traditional fried duck dish. The duck is seasoned with many spices.
- Bebek sinjay: This dish features juicy fried duck. It is served with different kinds of sambal (chili sauce).
- Campor: This is a unique broth mixed with peanut sauce. It creates a rich and flavorful soup.
- Kaldu kokot: This dish combines green beans with a rich beef broth. It is a hearty and comforting meal.
- Nasek bebek: This is a rice dish served with duck meat. It is quite similar to other duck rice dishes.
- Nasek campur: This is the Madurese version of a mixed rice dish. It comes with various vegetables and your choice of meat.
- Nasek jagung: Instead of regular steamed rice, this dish uses cornmeal. It is a different way to enjoy rice.
- Nasek serundeng: This rice dish is served with serundeng. Serundeng is spicy fried coconut flakes.
- Rojak cengur: This is a mix of vegetables, tofu, tempeh, lontong (rice cakes), and bean sprouts. It is served with a black fish paste sauce called petis. It also includes slices of boiled cow's lips.
Famous Satay Dishes
- Sate Madura: This is a very famous type of satay. It is usually made from mutton or chicken. The special part is its black sauce. This sauce is made from sweet soy sauce mixed with palm sugar, garlic, fried shallots, peanut paste, shrimp paste, candlenut, and salt.
- Sate ayam: This is satay made specifically from chicken meat.
- Sate kambing: This satay is made from mutton or goat meat.
- Serundeng: This is a side dish made from spicy fried coconut flakes. It is made by sautéing grated coconut. People often eat it with rice.
- Soto Madura: This is a type of soto soup. It can be made with chicken, beef, or offal (organ meats). It has a yellowish, clear broth.
- Sup kambing: This is a mutton soup. It is prepared with goat meat, tomato, celery, spring onion, ginger, candlenut, and lime leaf. The broth is yellowish.
Sweet Treats and Snacks
Madurese cuisine also has many delicious snacks and desserts. These are perfect for a sweet treat.
- Apem: This is a traditional steamed cake. It is made from rice flour, coconut milk, yeast, and palm sugar. It is usually served with grated coconut.
- Dawet: This is a sweet, iced dessert. It has green jelly droplets made from rice flour. It also includes coconut milk and palm sugar syrup.
- Lopis: This is a traditional sweet cake. It is made from glutinous rice. It is served with grated coconut and a thick coconut sugar syrup drizzled on top.
