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Ingredient

Ketupat

Also called kupat

Ketupat is a rice cake made from rice that has a firm texture when cooked. Cooks boil or simmer it and pair it with coconut milk, tofu, or peanut sauce.

Made from
Rice
Texture
Firm
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Ketupat, market

Photo: Haikal Riyadhi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use ketupat

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer

Preparing it

Fill a woven young palm-leaf pouch with rice before boiling.

Cooking with it

Boil the filled pouch until the rice expands into a firm cake.

Goes well with

If you don’t have ketupat

  • lontong · Works in a pinch, for cooked

    Can replace ketupat in ketupat sayur.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, cooked

  • Firm

Around the world

Where ketupat is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use ketupat. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

On the table

Dishes made with ketupat

3 of the 4 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Ketupat betumis

    Indonesia

  • Lembut satay

    Indonesia

  • Doclang

    Indonesia

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: ketupat in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
rice
A kind of
rice cake

Around the world

What ketupat is called

Names in 34 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Ketupat · Puso · Bugnoy · Ta'mu

  • French

    Ketupat

  • Italian

    Ketupat

  • German

    Ketupat · Puso · Bugnoy

  • Dutch

    Ketupat

  • Greek

    κετούπατ

  • Russian

    Кетупат

  • Polish

    Ketupat

  • Arabic

    كيتوبات

  • Persian

    کتوپات

  • Chinese

    马来粽 · Ketupat

  • Japanese

    クトゥパ · クトゥパッ

Show all 34 languages

  • Armenian

    Կետուպատ

  • Assamese

    কেটুপাত

  • Balinese

    Tipat

  • Banjar

    Katupat

  • Cantonese

    馬拉糭

  • Cebuano

    Puso · Patupat · Kupat · Ketupat

  • Filipino

    Bugnoy · Tamu · Tāmu · Ketupat

  • Iban

    Ketupat

  • Indonesian

    Ketupat · Kupat

  • Javanese

    Kupat · Ketupat

  • kge

    Katupat

  • Korean

    크투팟

  • Malay

    ketupat

  • Malay (Arabic)

    کتوڤت

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Ketupat

  • Minangkabau

    Katupek

  • Nias

    Tamböyö

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Ketupat · Bugnoy

  • Simplified Chinese

    马来粽

  • Sundanese

    Kupat

  • Swedish

    Ketupat

  • Thai

    เกอตูปัต

  • Traditional Chinese

    馬來粽

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    馬來粽

  • Ukrainian

    Кетупат

  • Waray

    Pusô

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)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1520778

Photos

Photo: Haikal Riyadhi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons