Dandang

A tall steamer pot: rice that is steamed, not boiled, the way a Javanese kitchen still prefers.

Also called dandang steamer · From Indonesia

A tall dandang steamer with a mound of steamed rice and a woven serving basket.

The journey

A dandang is Indonesia's rice steamer — a tall pot with an insert, used so rice or sticky cakes cook in vapor. It is the cousin of a couscoussier and of a bamboo stack, born for a different grain and a different feast.

A rice cooker is the weekday machine. The dandang is the pot a celebration still wants.

A botanical plate of rice — the grain a dandang was built to steam. — Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887) · Public domain. Source

In the kitchen

Part-boil or soak the rice, then steam until the grains stand. Keep the lid honest. Fluff and serve.

The Indonesian volume's rice ceremonies assume this steamer. A bamboo stack over a wok can stand in.

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