Rawon

Indonesia · Southeast Asia

Short description: This beef soup is savory, earthy, and usually served with rice and fresh crunchy garnishes.
Ingredients: Beef, keluak nuts, shallots, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, candlenuts, turmeric, coriander, rice, bean sprouts, and salted egg.
Cultural note: It is associated with eastern island cooking and roadside soup shops, especially as a rice-meal centerpiece.
Common misconception: The dark color is not from soy sauce or squid ink; it comes from keluak nuts.

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creator:: Fiskal Purbawan
source:: Wikimedia Commons
license:: CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:: Cropped/resized and re-encoded for Gochizu; no substantive content edits.