Gado Gado (steamed veggies and tempeh with peanut sauce) at Sanur Beach, Bali

 Here is a list of some traditionally vegan and gluten-free recipes found in Indonesia. Many dishes are already gluten-free due to much use of rice, mung bean or tapioca flour over wheat flour. But you still have to watch out for soy sauce in dishes for flavor. The main non-vegan item in Indonesian cooking is chicken stock in rice and noodle dishes as well as shrimp paste that is used for flavoring many savory dishes. The dishes listed below don’t traditionally have either of those non-vegan ingredients or contain gluten (unless otherwise noted). The recipes for the dishes I have listed found from  www.indonesianfoodrecipes.com, a very helpful website for recipes on how to make many traditional dishes. I love all the desserts made from glutinous rice (this rice does not contain gluten, it just has that name because it is sticky). Glutinous rice is also called sweet sticky rice or mochi rice, since it is the rice that mochi is made out of… one of my favorite desserts!

• Balinese Black Rice Pudding – Bubur Injin
• Coconut Cake – Pancong (make sure coconut milk is used)
• Crispy Peanut Wafers (Rempeyek Kacang)
• Diced Water Chestnut or Jicama Sambal (sometimes has shrimp paste)
• Eggplant in Tamarind Broth – Asam Terong
• Fern Tips or Asparagus in Coconut Gravy – Gulai Daun Pakis
• Fried Bananas – Pisang Goreng Usually dipped in rice flour, sometimes wheat
• Gado Gado (just ask for no egg and no shrimp crackers… the dressing might have soy sauce)
• Glutinous Rice Cakes with Palm Sugar – Wajik
• Lontong – Rice in Banana Leaves
• Tempeh Stewed in Coconut Milk and Spices – Gulai Tempeh
• Plain White Rice (Nasi Putih)
• Mixed Vegetable Pickles – acar segar
• Sambal Rujak (sometimes has shrimp paste)
• Sweet Soy Sauce Sambal – Sambal Kecap
• Spiced Coconut with Peanuts – Serundeng (usually contains shrimp paste)
• Steamed Banana – Cakes Kue Nagasari
• Stewed Pineapple with Coconut and Indonesian Spices – Gulai Nanas
• Sweet Rice Flour Porridge – Bubur Sumsum (looks super delicious!!)
• Vegetables in Sweet Tamarind Broth – Sayur Asam (sometimes has shrimp paste)
• Sweet Sago Rolls with Palm Sugar Syrup – Ongol-ongol