lontong
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Indonesian / malay:
lontong
definitions
noun
- compressed rice cakes traditionally made by rolling banana leaves into a cylinder, filling it with uncooked rice, sealing it closed, then boiling or steaming the whole roll. Modern versions may use a cylindrical mold lined with banana leaves instead. A finished cylinder is usually sliced transversely into small pucks before serving.
- a dish made by adding such rice cakes, and sometimes also other ingredients, into sayur lodeh
I eat lontong every day, because it's full of vegetables, and I eat lontong without rice. So it's like I get to have coconut and spice but I'm only having vegetables, and maybe an egg for protein.
— 2014 February 20, Don Mendoza. Today, "Chef Willin Low". p.62
But our favourite dish had to be the lontong ($7.90). It's quite difficult to get good lontong these days — the vegetables are usually too soggy, the gravy too watery ...
— 2011 March 2, Christopher Toh. Today, "Same same, but different". p.14
usage notes
Sometimes used as a synonym for ketupat, as the two are culinarily almost identical, although ketupat is traditionally square-pillow-shaped and wrapped in young coconut leaves instead of banana leaves. Such compressed rice cakes are known more generally as nasi impit in Malay.
The Indonesian version of the stew dish is known as lontong sayur in Indonesia.