✨ Newdessert
Martabak (Indonesian Stuffed Pancake)
Indonesia's most indulgent street food: a thick, fluffy pancake with a crispy base, filled with chocolate, cheese, peanuts, or savory egg and beef.
⏱ 40 min🔥 520 kcalMedium
★4.9(1,203)
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Indonesian Cheese Recipes
5 recipes using cheese — Nasi goreng, rendang, satay — the flavours of 17,000 islands.
These 5 indonesian cheese recipes are ready in about 54 minutes on average, with 316–520 kcal per serving, and 60% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
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recipes
54 min
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444 kcal
avg per serving
60%
easy recipes
How Indonesian cuisine cooks with cheese
Indonesian cooking is rich and aromatic, building deep spice pastes that slow-cook into coconut-laced curries and sweet-savoury grilled dishes. When Indonesian cooks work with cheese, they reach for shallots, garlic, candlenut, lemongrass, kecap manis and sambal, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are baking, frying, sautéing and caramelising.
A concentrated hit of savoury, salty richness used to melt, gratinate, crumble or finish a dish. In this collection it's most often cooked with all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, eggs, flatbread dough and olive oil. The dishes here span indonesian classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Martabak (Indonesian Stuffed Pancake) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,203 ratings.
5 Indonesian Cheese Recipes
✨ Newbread
Lombok Lemon Herb Flatbread
Lombok Lemon Herb Flatbread turns indonesian pantry flavors into a complete flatbread with flatbread dough, coconut milk, kecap manis, chiles and peanuts, and a fresh lime leaves finish.
⏱ 45 min🔥 485 kcalEasy
★4.8(6,665)
✨ Newbread
Indonesian Festival Lemon Herb Flatbread
Indonesian Festival Lemon Herb Flatbread brings indonesian flavor to a practical flatbread built with flatbread dough, coconut milk, kecap manis, chiles and peanuts, and a fresh lime leaves finish.
⏱ 47 min🔥 490 kcalEasy
★4.8(6,435)
✨ Newlunch
Roti Bakar (Indonesian Grilled Toast Sandwich)
Sweet-savory Indonesian street toast, griddled until crisp and filled with condensed milk, cheese, or spiced meat.
⏱ 73 min🔥 407 kcalEasy
★4.1(79)
✨ Newdessert
Kue Cubit (Indonesian Mini Griddle Cakes)
Small, fluffy Indonesian griddle cakes with caramelized edges, finished with a bright hit of lime zest.
⏱ 64 min🔥 316 kcalHard
★4.5(72)
Choosing & preparing cheese
How to choose
Buy in blocks and grate fresh — pre-shredded cheese is coated with anti-caking starch that hampers melting. Match the cheese to the job: good melters (mozzarella, gruyère) versus crumblers (feta, parmesan).
Prep & storage
Let cheese come to room temperature for the fullest flavour. Add delicate cheeses off the heat to stop them splitting; build a smooth sauce with a roux or a starch.
Nutrition
A calcium- and protein-rich food; it is also high in saturated fat and sodium, so a little sharp cheese goes a long way.
Classic flavour partners: tomatoes, bread, wine, pasta, black pepper, honey
Indonesian Cheese Recipes — FAQ
How long do Indonesian cheese recipes take to make?
Most of these 5 Indonesian cheese recipes are ready in around 54 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Martabak (Indonesian Stuffed Pancake), takes about 40 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 73 minutes.
How many calories are in Indonesian cheese dishes?
Across this collection they range from about 316 to 520 kcal per serving, averaging 444 kcal — Kue Cubit (Indonesian Mini Griddle Cakes) is the lightest option at 316 kcal.
What is the easiest Indonesian cheese recipe for beginners?
Lombok Lemon Herb Flatbread is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 45 minutes. 60% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
What goes well with cheese in Indonesian cooking?
In these recipes, cheese is most often paired with all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, eggs, flatbread dough and olive oil. Indonesian kitchens also lean on shallots, garlic, candlenut, lemongrass, kecap manis and sambal.
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