A steamed, stuffed rice dish

Name: A steamed, stuffed rice dish (Buras)
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 2 tsp dark soya sauce; 1 tsp tomato ketchup; 1 tbs vegetable oil; 2 shallots; 1 medium-sized potato; 2 carrots; a slice of cold lamb, beef or pork (optional); a pinch of chilli powder (more, if you want it hot)

Buras

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is a kind of stuffed Lontong, but for this you cannot use boil-in-the-bag rice. Make the filling first, using the following ingredients. The quantities given are enough to provide filling for 1 cup of rice, measured raw.

Ingredients

2 shallots
1 medium-sized potato
2 carrots
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Asia
Indonesia
Main course
South East Asia

Method

Slice the shallots. Peel and cut the carrots and potato into very small cubes. Cut up the meat, if you are using any. Sauté all these in the oil for about a minute, then add all the other ingredients and mix well; add ½ a cupful of water and cover for 3 minutes. Then take off the lid and continue cooking until there is no more liquid in the pan. Add salt if necessary.

Now prepare the ri