5 Most Popular Indonesian Dessert Recipes

Indonesia is a diverse country. Not only diverse languages, cultures, and even beliefs, but Indonesia also has various culinary delights. This includes dessert. Each region in Indonesia has its own unique and tasty desserts. One place after another in Indonesia has its characteristics of desserts. You will find various kinds of desserts that taste sweet, salty, sour, and even savory! From thousands of Indonesian desserts, we will give you 5 of the best and most popular Indonesian dessert recipes. We assure you that you will love them. Don’t worry, these recipes will be very simple and easy to follow at home, even when you have never made any dessert in your life. Of course, these Indonesian desserts are popular because of how delicious they are!

Es Selendang Mayang

Es Selendang Mayang Ice is a traditional dessert from Betawi, Jakarta. This is a very refreshing dessert. The taste is sweet, savory, and slightly salty. This dessert will be even fresher when people put ice cubes in it. Es selendang mayang is the perfect dessert on a sunny day.

Ingredients for Es Selendang Mayang:

• 25 grams of mung bean powder starch
• 13 grams of rice flour
• 2 tbsp granulated sugar
• 250 ml of coconut milk
• Pandan paste
• Red food coloring
• Salt
• Vanilla
• Ice

Sauce Ingredients:

• 75 gr of brown sugar
• 25 gr sugar
• 50 ml of water

Gravy Ingredients:

• 150 ml of coconut milk
• Pandan leaves to taste
• Salt to taste

Instructions:

• Add hunkwe flour, rice flour, granulated sugar, coconut milk, vanilla, and salt and mix well. If it is evenly distributed, cook until it boils, and then remove it.
• Divide the dough into 5 parts then add pandan paste to the first part, add red coloring to the second part, and leave it colorless for the last part.
• Prepare a baking sheet whose surface has been covered with plastic, then pour the mayang shawl mixture on it.
• Let it cool by putting it in the fridge.
• Make the sauce by adding all the sauce ingredients and then bringing it to a boil.
• Make the gravy by mixing all the ingredients and then cook, stirring, until it boils.
• Slice the mayang shawl then place it in a bowl.
• Add ice cubes in a bowl then flush with sauce and gravy.
• Selendang mayang is ready to be served!

Sweet Martabak

Sweet martabak is similar to pancake. It is made from sweet-tasting flour dough that is baked and topped with sweet toppings such as chocolate, cheese, sugar, butter, condensed milk, and many more. This snack is popular in Indonesia. Usually, people eat sweet martabak for a night snack. It is very easy to find street vendors that sell martabak in Indonesia. In some parts of Indonesia, people call it terang bulan instead of martabak.

Ingredients for sweet martabak:

• 250 grams of wheat flour
• 350 ml of water
• 1 tbsp tapioca flour
• 2 tbsp granulated sugar
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp baking soda
• Butter to taste
• Granulated sugar, for sprinkling

Ingredients for toppings:

• Baked beans
• Chocolate sprinkles
• Grated cheese

Instructions:

• Mix flour, tapioca, baking powder, salt, sugar, and water and mix well.
• Leave the dough for 1 hour.
• Add eggs and baking soda and mix well.
• Brush a little butter on the pan, when it’s hot, pour the martabak mixture, when it’s half cooked, pour the sugar on top of it.
• Grease enough butter.
• Add toppings, baked beans, chocolate sprinkles, and grated cheese.
• Your sweet martabak is ready!

Teler Ice

Teler ice, commonly called “es teler” is an Indonesian fresh icy drink with lots of fruit toppings. It was first made in 1967. Ice teler contains avocado, jackfruit, syrup, sweetened condensed milk, coconut meat, coconut milk, and other fruits. It tastes very fresh. Surely it easily passes as the best dessert to be consumed on a hot day.

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons fiber cream
• 200 ml of hot water
• 600 ml cold water (or adjust as needed)
• 150 ml of sweetened condensed milk
• 100 ml of coco-pandan syrup
• Ice cubes as needed

Fruits ingredients:

• Avocado
• Melons
• Mango
• Grape
• Coconut
• Strawberries

Instructions:

• Dissolve fiber cream in hot water, then mix with cold water.
• Cut the fruit, put it in a glass or bowl, add ice cubes, then add the fiber cream solution, pour in the sweetened condensed milk and enough syrup.
• Teler Ice is ready to be enjoyed!

Green Banana Ice (Es Pisang Ijo)

Green banana ice is a typical snack or dessert from Makassar, South Sulawesi. This dessert is prepared from ripe and steamed plantains or kepok bananas. The bananas are covered with rice flour dough that is mixed with coconut milk and pandan leaf water. The pandan leaves give the banana ice a green color and a flavorful aroma. This dessert is perfect if you love to consume anything sweet.

Ingredients:

• Plantain or kepok banana (steamed)
• 150 gr of white glutinous rice flour
• 50 gr flour
• 50 gr sago
• 5 pieces of suji leaves
• 5 pandan leaves
• Pandan paste coloring, to taste

Vla ingredients:

• 50 gr of rice flour
• 500 ml thick coconut milk
• 2 bunches of pandan leaves
• 100 gr of sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt

Complementary ingredients:

• Ice cubes as needed
• Cocopandan syrup, according to taste
• Grated chocolate
• Chocolate-sweetened condensed milk
• Meses

Instructions:

• Put coconut milk, butter, suji leaves, pandan leaves, salt, and pasta coloring in a saucepan. Stir well and cook until boiling. Remove and set aside.
• Lower the heat, then add the flour, and stir quickly. After it’s warm, knead the dough until it’s smooth, peel the bananas, take the dough, and then flatten the banana wrapper with the skin mixture. Do it until it’s finished.
• Boil water in a steamer pot, and steam the bananas for 15 minutes. Previously, coat the steamer container with a little oil so it doesn’t stick. Then, cover the lid of the steamer with a clean cloth.
• While waiting, mix all the vla/marrow porridge ingredients, and cook over medium heat. Keep stirring it, so it doesn’t burn. Cook until it thickens and explodes. When finished, remove and cut the ripe bananas, then place them in a bowl, and add the vla/marrow porridge.
• Add enough ice cubes, and flush with grated chocolate and sweetened condensed milk.
• The dessert is ready to be enjoyed!

Wedang Ronde (Ginger Wedang)

Wedang Ronde is a type of drink that contains ginger sauce and chewy cakes filled with crushed peanuts. Wedang ronde is served hot or warm. This dessert is perfect to be consumed at night, especially when the weather is cold because it will warm your body up.

The balls ingredients:

• 300 grams of glutinous rice flour
• 150 grams of tapioca flour
• 800 ml of water for the dough
• 1 Liter of water for boiling
• 2 tsp whiting water
• Food coloring to taste

Stuffing ingredients:

• 200 grams of peanuts, roasted then chopped or crushed not too finely.
• 50 grams of brown sugar, comb

Ginger wedang ingredients:

• 1.5 liters of water
• 6 bruised ginger segments

Instructions:

• Mix the glutinous rice flour and starch. Add water little by little while kneading until smooth. Divide into portions and add food coloring to taste.
• To make the filling, you only need to mix the peanuts with the combed brown sugar.
• Take a tablespoon of dough then fill in a shape resembling a small ball, do it until the dough runs out.
• Boil all the dough balls into boiling water. After floating remove the dough then set aside.
• To make ginger tea, you only need to boil ginger with water. If you want to give it a sweet taste, you can add brown sugar or white sugar.
• Prepare a bowl, put the round ball then pour it with ginger sauce. You can also add peanut powder as a garnish and flavor enhancer.
• You can enjoy the dessert!

So, which dessert will you make? Please tell us in the comment section below! If you love Indonesian food, please check out the other Indonesian food recipes that we have in our blog.