Course | Main course |
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Place of origin | Indonesia[1] |
Region or state | Solo, Central Java[2] |
Serving temperature | Hot |
Main ingredients | Rice cooked in rich coconut milk surrounded with side dishes |
Nasi liwet is an Indonesian dish rice dish cooked in coconut milk, added with chicken broth, salam leaves, lemongrass, and spices, from Solo, Central Java, Indonesia.[1] Thus, the rice has a rich, aromatic, and succulent taste.[3] The uniqueness of nasi liwet is that it applies a traditional Javanese way of cooking rice in coconut milk. There is another popular variant of the dish, which is the style of Nasi Liwet Sunda from West Java. It is a unique Sundanese cuisine with different taste and presentation, from the Sundanese eating tradition called ngeliwet or botram[4] (a dish made with banana leaves and eaten together).