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Ingredient

Rice cake

Rice cake is made from rice and has a chewy texture. When cooked, it can be gelatinous. Cooks bake, boil, simmer, grill, shallow-fry, steam, or stir-fry it.

Made from
Rice
Texture
Chewy, gelatinous
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Rice cake, cut

Photo: Herbertkikoy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use rice cake

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Boil simmer
  • Grill
  • Shallow fry
  • Steam
  • Stir fry

Cooking with it

For ketupat, rice expands during cooking and becomes compressed inside its pouch. Let lontong cool before cutting it into small pieces.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Chewy

Texture, cooked

  • Gelatinous

Around the world

Where rice cake is cooked

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

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

On the table

Dishes made with rice cake

4 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Gado-gado

    Indonesia

  • Ketoprak

    Indonesia

  • Onde-onde

    Indonesia

  • Lontong

    Indonesia

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: rice cake 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
Kinds
ketupat, lontong

Cooked together

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

What rice cake is called

Names in 32 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    pastel de arroz

  • French

    gâteau de riz

  • Portuguese

    bolo de arroz

  • German

    Reiskuchen

  • Greek

    κέικ ρυζιού

  • Turkish

    Pirinç keki

  • Russian

    рисовый пирог

  • Arabic

    كعك الارز

  • Persian

    کیک برنج

  • Hebrew

    עוגת אורז

  • Urdu

    چاول کیک

  • Chinese

    米糕

Show all 32 languages

  • Armenian

    բրնձով կարկանդակ

  • Cantonese

    米糕

  • Catalan

    pastís d'arròs

  • Czech

    rýžový koláček · rýžový koláč

  • Esperanto

    rizkuko

  • Filipino

    kakanin

  • Hungarian

    rizssütemény · rice cake

  • Indonesian

    kue beras · kue nasi

  • Japanese

    ライスケーキ · 米菓 · 蒸し餅

  • Javanese

    Kuwé beras

  • Korean

    쌀떡

  • Literary Chinese

    米餠

  • Macedonian

    Торта од ориз

  • Malay

    kek beras

  • Malayalam

    അരിക്കേക്ക്

  • Pangasinan

    Rice cake

  • Slovenian

    rižev kolač

  • Swedish

    riskaka

  • Telugu

    రైస్ కేక్

  • Vietnamese

    bánh gạo

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: Q15149436

Photos

Photo: Herbertkikoy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons