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Hi bloggers and food lovers. Today I’m going to share a homemade lontong recipe; lontong is a must-have dish during Eid at my house. Lontong is a rice-based dish wrapped in banana leaves into a long shape and cooked by boiling until firm. It has a chewy texture and a fragrant aroma. This lontong can also be served with other sauces like satay or other regional specialties. This time, I’d like to introduce it with a savory and delicious tauco( fermented soybean paste ) vegetable stew. Alright, let’s get started

**Ingredients: **

• 1 roll of banana leaves
• 1kg of rice
• 1 tbsp salt
• skewers
• water
• 2 liters thin coconut milk
• 400 ml thick coconut milk
• tauco vegetable mix (long beans, melinjo, pea eggplants, green chili, red chili, fermented soybean paste, shrimp)

Steps:

• Cut the banana leaf into pieces about 30 cm long

• Roll the leaf using a bottle as a guide, then fold the bottom and secure with a skewer

• Fill with rice until it reaches one-quarter of the leaf’s fold

• Secure the top of the leaf with a skewer like this

• Repeat until all the rice is used

• Place the rice-filled banana leaf parcels into the pressure cooker

• Fill the rice-filled parcels with water until full, then add water to the pressure cooker’s water level mark

• Close the pressure cooker lid and cook for 1 hour 30 minutes

• Once cooked, let the lontong cool

• While waiting for the lontong to cook, add the frozen tauco vegetables to a pot

• Add thin coconut milk and thick coconut milk

• Bring to a boil

• Turn off the heat

• Peel the banana leaves off the lontong and slice the lontong

• Pour the tauco vegetable stew over it

• You can add noodles, slices of rendang, and crackers as toppings

• The lontong with tauco vegetable stew is ready to eat