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Kecap manis

Also called Sweet soy sauce

Kecap manis is a soy sauce made with grain and palm sugar, sometimes with star anise, cinnamon, black pepper, or clove. Cooks use it as a condiment, in marinades, and to season dishes; it pairs with shallot and bird's eye chili.

Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia

In the kitchen

How to use kecap manis

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Marinade
  • Season

Made from

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing kecap manis

Availability
Supermarkets (01M6Z352Y9A97T0M672Y1WGK7G); Specialty stores (01M6Z351J2A4DZ3JN6395MYWS0)

Around the world

Where kecap manis is cooked

21 dishes in the catalogue use kecap manis. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list kecap manis among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with kecap manis

21 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Caluk noodles

    Indonesia

  • Klatak Satay

    Indonesia

  • Nasi gandul

    Indonesia

  • Kikil satay

    Indonesia

  • Snail satay

    Indonesia

  • Ayam goreng Kalasan

    Indonesia

  • Mie ayam

    Indonesia

  • Selat Solo

    Indonesia

  • Maranggi satay

    Indonesia

  • Rice lengko

    Indonesia

  • Lalat satay

    Indonesia

  • Satay kalong

    Indonesia

  • Tempe orek

    Indonesia

  • Babi kecap

    Indonesia

  • Bakmi

    Indonesia

  • Pork satay

    Indonesia

  • Babi panggang karo

    Indonesia

  • Sate buntel

    Indonesia

  • Tegal satay

    Indonesia

  • Kale noodles

    Indonesia

  • Ponorogo satay

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include kecap manis.

Family

Related forms

A kind of
soy sauce

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What kecap manis is called

Names in 18 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    salsa soja dulce · soja dulce

  • German

    Kecap Manis

  • Dutch

    ketjap manis

  • Arabic

    صلصة الصويا الحلوة

  • Persian

    سس سویا شیرین

  • Chinese

    甜酱油

  • Japanese

    ケチャップマニス

  • Korean

    케찹 마니스

  • Thai

    เกอจัปมานิซ

  • Indonesian

    kecap manis

  • Malay

    Kicap manis

  • Filipino

    Kecap manis

Show all 18 languages

  • Armenian

    Քաղցր սոյայի թանձրուկ

  • Azerbaijani

    Kecap manis

  • Betawi

    Kécap manis

  • Esperanto

    dolĉa sojo

  • Icelandic

    Kecap manis

  • Javanese

    kécap legi

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)

Wikidata item: Q2354397