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Acehnese cuisine is the cuisine of the Acehnese people of Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia. This cuisine is popular and widely known in Indonesia. Arab, Persian, and Indian[1][2] traders influenced food culture in Aceh although flavours have substantially changed their original forms.[3] The spices combined in Acehnese cuisine are commonly found in Indian and Arab cuisine, such as ginger, pepper, coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, and fennel.[4]
A variety of Acehnese food is cooked with curry or coconut milk, which is generally combined with meat such as buffalo, beef, goat meat, lamb, mutton, fish, or chicken.[5] Several Aceh dishes can trace its origin to India, such as roti canai which was derived from Indian flatbread.[6]
Acehnese cuisine
Ayam tangkap
Bubur asyura
Kuwah pliek u
Bhôi
Keukarah
Meuseukat
Roti cane kari kambing
Kopi sanger
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Spices
- Asam sunti, a condiment made of star fruit and salt.
Dishes
- Ayam tangkap, traditional fried chicken served with leaves such as temurui leaves and pandan leaves that are roughly chopped and fried crispy.
- Gulai, curry dish with main ingredients might be poultry, goat meat, beef, mutton, various kinds of offal, fish and seafood, and also vegetables such as cassava leaves and unripe jackfruit.
- Gulai ayam, chicken curry.
- Gulai kepala ikan, fish head curry.
- Kanji asyura, porridge made from grains.
- Kanji rumbi, rice porridge, similar to bubur ayam.
- Ketupat, rice dumpling made from rice packed inside a diamond-shaped container of woven palm leaf pouch.
- Keumamah, fish dish of Euthynnus affinis or Katsuwonus pelamis.
- Kuwah beulangong, mutton or goat curry.
- Kuwah eungkôt yèe, shark gulai cooked using herbs and spices that are very distinctive, such as temurui leaves and kaffir lime leaves.
- Kuwah iték, duck curry.
- Kuwah pliëk-u, gulai-like dish cooked using oilcake, melinjo, long beans, peanuts, papaya leaves, cassava leaves, kecombrang bamboo shoots, snails, and spices.
- Kuwah udeuëng, shrimp curry.
- Martabak, stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread, sometimes filled with beef and scallions.
- Martabak aceh, Acehnese-style of martabak, that shaped like roti canai and served with curries.
- Masam keu’euëng, sour and spicy dish.
- Mi aceh, curried spicy noodle dish with rich spices.
- Mi caluk, noodle dish served with a splash of thick spicy sauce made from a mixture of tomato, chili pepper or chili sauce, coconut milk, ground peanuts, spiced with shallot, garlic, lemongrass and citrus leaf, and served with pieces of vegetables, sliced cucumber and krupuk.
- Mi kari, curry noodle dish.
- Mi rebus, Acehnese-style of boiled noodle dish.
- Nasi biryani, Acehnese-style of flavoured rice dish cooked or served with mutton, chicken, vegetable or fish curry.
- Nasi goreng aceh, fried rice with rich spices akin to mie aceh.
- Nasi gurih, steamed rice cooked in coconut milk and spices dish.
- Nasi kari, rice dish served with curry.
- Roti cane, a thin unleavened bread with a flaky crust, fried on a skillet with oil and served with condiments or curry.
- Roti jala, pretty dish that looks like a lace doily due to the way it is made and usually served with curry dishes.
- Sambai asam udeuëng, sour and spicy shrimp.
- Sate matang, a satay variant made of goat meat.
- Sie reuboh, stew made of beef or water buffalo with spices.
Snacks and desserts
- Apam, a traditional cake of steamed dough made of rice flour, coconut milk, yeast and palm sugar, usually served with grated coconut.
- Bhôi, Acehnese cake.
- Keukarah, traditional cake made from a mixture of flour and coconut milk with bird nest shaped.
- Meuseukat, dodol-like cake made of pineapple.
- Pulôt, traditional cake made of sticky rice and turmeric.
- Roti tisu, thinner version of the traditional roti canai.
- Timphan, steamed banana dumpling that consists of glutinous rice flour, ground banana and coconut milk.
Beverages
- Kopi aceh, an Acehnese traditional coffee.
- Kopi gayo, a coffee made from arabica coffee variety.
- Kopi sanger, a coffee made of mixture of black coffee, condensed milk and sugar.
- Kopi tarik, a coffee, dark roasted with margarine and sugar, which is sweetened with condensed milk and pulled to froth it up.
- Teh tarik, a hot milk tea beverage.
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