Lontong is a dish made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, and this is a typical Indonesian food. The rice rolled inside banana leaf and boiled, then cut into small cakes as a food replacement for steamed rice. The texture is similar to those of ketupat, with the difference that ketupat container was made from weaved janur (young coconut leaf), while lontong uses banana leaf instead.

LONTONG BALAP is a famous dish came from Surabaya, but in Pasuruan (one of the cities in East Java) there is also a lontong balap. The real difference is the liquid that looks yellow tends to be clear and tempeh is also added in the broth. Here we also do not use lento (fried marinated of green beans and cassava), but only use fried tofu as a complement.

And this is the recipe LONTONG BALAP PASURUAN...