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Ketoprak | Traditional Salad From Jakarta, Indonesia | TasteAtlas
Ketoprak | Traditional Salad From Jakarta, Indonesia | TasteAtlas
Ketoprak | Traditional Salad From Jakarta, Indonesia | TasteAtlas
Ketoprak | Traditional Salad From Jakarta, Indonesia | TasteAtlas

Ketoprak

Ketoprak is a traditional street food dish that's often described as tofu salad. It's made with a combination of fried tofu, steamed rice cakes, rice vermicelli noodles, bean sprouts, cabbage, and cucumbers. The combination is served in peanut sauce and sweet soy sauce (kecap manis).


It's usually topped with fried shallots and krupuk. The dish can be found at numerous ketoprak food carts throughout Jakarta, although there is still an ongoing debate about the origin of the dish – some claim that it was first made in Cirebon because the majority of street food vendors come from Cirebon.


The tofu is freshly fried from the food carts, while the other ingredients are prepared in advance. Ketoprak is usually a vegan dish, but it's sometimes topped with a hard-boiled egg which makes it non-vegan.