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bakso

Traditional dish from Indonesia

Must Try Street Food

About bakso

Tionghoa cuisine

Bakso or baso is an Indonesian meatball, or a meat paste made from beef surimi. Its texture is similar to the Chinese beef ball, fish ball, or pork ball. The word bakso may refer to a single meatball or the complete dish of meatball soup. Mie bakso refers to bakso served with yellow noodles and rice vermicelli, while bakso kuah refers to bakso soup served without noodles.

Key Ingredients

  • table salt
  • sugar
  • beef
  • garlic
  • Piper nigrum
  • scallion
  • tapioca
  • Apium graveolens
  • rice vermicelli
  • egg white
  • baking powder
  • ice
  • Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis

Components

  • ground beef

Dietary Information

✓ Popular street food
✓ Must-try when visiting Indonesia
Traditional Indonesia cuisine

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