Ketupat

Ketupat or packed of rice is a type of dumpling made by Malaysian, Indonesian, and Singaporean. It is made from rice that have been wrapped in a woven palm leaf pouch and boiled. As the rice cooks, the grains expend to fill the pouch and the rice becomes compressed. This method of cooking gives the ketupat its characteristics form and texture of a rice dumpling. After finish boiling, ketupat usually need to be hang first before serve because the rice inside it to be dried. Ketupat is usually eaten with rendang or served as an accompaniment to satay. There are varieties of ketupat; ketupat nasi and ketupat pulut. Ketupat nasi is made from white rice and is wrapped in a square shape with coconut palm leaves while ketupat pulut is made fro glutinous rice is usually wrapped in a triangular shape using the leaves of the fan palm. Ketupat pulut is also called as ketupat daun palas in Malaysia.