Roti bakar

Roti bakar (lit. grilled bread) is an Indonesian sandwich that consists of two slices of grilled white bread and a filling, such as sugar, margarine, butter, hagelslag, chocolate spread, cheese, peanut butter, strawberry jam, or coconut jam. It is considered as alternative quick breakfast and a common street food.

Roti bakar
A plate of roti bakar.
TypeSandwich
Place of originIndonesia

History and origin

The Dutch arrived in Indonesia in the 16th century in search of spices. When the Dutch East India Company (VOC) went bankrupt in 1800, Indonesia became a treasured colony of the Netherlands.[1] Through colonialism, Europeans introduced breads. Roti bakar was created during the colonial era with Dutch-influenced. Bread, butter and margarine, sandwiches filled with ham, cheese or fruit jam, poffertjes, pannekoek and Dutch cheeses are commonly consumed by colonial Dutch and Indos during the colonial era. Roti bakar was created during the colonial era were influenced by Dutch cuisine along with roti buaya, selat solo (Solo salad), macaroni schotel (macaroni casserole), pastel tutup (Shepherd's pie), bistik jawa (Javanese beef steak), semur (from Dutch smoor), erten (pea soup), brenebon (kidney bean soup) and sop buntut.[2]

After Indonesian independence, roti bakar began to develop and has many variants of flavors, such as roti bakar filled with hagelslag.[3]

See also

References
  1. "A Guide to Dutch Indonesian Cuisine". Awesome Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  2. Luke Nguyen (5 December 2016). "Crocodile bread and spekkoek: the tasty intersection of Dutch-Indo food". SBS.
  3. Senja, Anggita (October 11, 2018). "Sejarah Roti Bakar di Indonesia, Awalnya dari Roti yang Tak Segar". travel.kompas.com (in Indonesian).
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