7 Indonesian Cuisine Made From Bamboo Shoots Or Bamboo Shoots, Have You Ever Tasted It?

Illustration of bamboo shoot spring rolls (Pexels/Benidict Hermanto)

JAKARTA – Nusantara has various raw materials for culinary. Various kinds of culinary are also very creative in processing crops. Including in processing bamboo shoots or commonly known as bamboo shoots. Which one have you tasted? Let's look at the list.

Lumpia Semarang

Lumpia is not only easy to find in every corner of the city of Semarang. Spring rolls made from bamboo shoots are very well known throughout the archipelago, especially on the island of Java. However, outside of this most densely populated island Lumpia is also not difficult to find.

Lumpia Semarang usually contains bamboo shoots with various mixtures of fillings. Such as quail eggs, chicken, meat, and tofu. This means that you can choose your own mix other than bamboo shoots in one serving of spring rolls.

Padang bamboo shoot curry

Unlike Lumpia, curry is indeed a typical Indonesian food. Rich spices and coconut milk are the main ingredients of bamboo shoot curry. For typical Padang concoctions, you will often find them in restaurants that serve Padang cuisine, West Sumatra.

Lodeh bean shoots tolo

Bamboo will usually sprout throughout the year, especially during moderate to high rainfall. Bamboo shoots for the people of the archipelago are also processed into daily food, called lodeh tolo peanut shoots. It tastes savory bathed in coconut milk sauce and chili pieces.

Candied bamboo shoots

Candied bamboo shoots may only be found in some areas of the archipelago that have adequate sources of bamboo shoots. In Riau, for example, in this city you can find candied dried bamboo shoots with varying concentrations of sugar, ranging from a faintly sweet taste to being covered in caramel.

Opor bamboo shoots

Opor is a dish that is often served during Eid or other big days. But for the culinary opor bamboo shoots, you can also taste it on weekdays. Want to taste it? Find this dish in a warung that serves home cooking.

Shredded bamboo shoots

Shredded beef or chicken meat you might usually serve at home. But what about shredded bamboo shoots? The taste is indeed unusual, but if properly processed the smell of bamboo shoots will disappear, replaced with a faint savory and sweet taste.

Lma

Nusantara food, hereinafter referred to as Rejang cuisine, is made from chopped bamboo shoots and mixed with tilapia or sepat fish. After the bamboo shoots are chopped and mixed with fish, then fermented on banana leaves for three days.

This fermentation process creates a sour taste and when cooked, it emits a savory and spicy taste.