A FOOD TRADITION

Sasak Cuisine

Sasak cuisine is associated with the Sasak people of Lombok and combines rice-based meals with chilies, coconut, local greens, eggplant, chicken, seafood, and strongly seasoned spice pastes. It is often marked by sambal-based preparations and by techniques such as grilling, pounding aromatics, simmering, and cooking food in banana leaves. Representative dishes include ayam taliwang, plecing kangkung, and ares. Lombok’s proximity to Bali has produced exchange and overlap, but Sasak cooking has its own ingredients, ceremonial contexts, and chili-centered flavor profile. It should therefore be catalogued separately from Balinese cuisine rather than treated as a Bali variant.

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