Tipat cantok
Photo: Kresnanta · CC BY-SA 4.0

History

Tipat is the Balinese word for ketupat, and cantok means grinding in a mortar, which describes how the peanut sauce is made to order. The dish is akin to Javanese pecel and Jakarta's gado-gado, and in Bali the sauce is sharpened with petis, lime and kencur. It is a common street food, sold in Denpasar warungs from about IDR 8,000 to 15,000. Warung Dot Lalah serves a version with noodles, tipat cantok mie, and Art Cafe Bumbu Bali lists ketipat cantok on its vegetarian rijsttafel.

Common allergens: Peanuts, Shellfish, Soy

Make it at home

Yield Serves 4Hands-on 20 minTotal 40 minDifficulty Easy

Ingredients

  • 300g lontong (compressed rice cake), sliced into discs
  • 150g green cabbage, quartered
  • 150g snake beans or long beans
  • 150g bean sprouts
  • 150g sea salt for the blanching water, in 3 litres of water
  • For the sauce: 80g fried peanuts, 3 garlic cloves, 6 small hot chillies and 220ml warm water
  • 1 tbsp fried shallots, 2 tsp kecap manis, 1 tsp lime juice and 1 tsp salt
  • Optional, warung style: 1cm kencur and 1 tsp petis, ground into the sauce
  • To finish: fried peanuts, fried shallots, fried tofu puffs and prawn crackers

Method

  1. Crush the peanuts, garlic and chillies in a mortar to a thick paste. Add warm water a little at a time until it turns creamy, then crush in the shallots, kecap manis, lime juice and salt. Taste and adjust.
  2. Bring the salted water to the boil and cook the cabbage and beans for 10 minutes, then move them to an ice bath.
  3. Boil the bean sprouts in the same water for 5 minutes and drain.
  4. Drain and slice the cabbage and beans, then combine with the sprouts and lontong.
  5. Pour over the sauce, toss, and top with fried peanuts, fried shallots, tofu puffs and prawn crackers.

Tip from the editors. Grind the sauce just before serving; a mortar gives a coarser, nuttier sauce than a blender.

Where to eat tipat cantok

Tipat cantok in Bali

Warung Dot Lalah ★ 3.8

$ Street foodDenpasar

Warung Dot Lalah on Jalan Kebak Sari in Denpasar, Bali, mixes tipat cantok with noodles and serves rujak kuah pindang, open daily from 11:00 to 19:00.

TryTipat cantok mi: peanut-sauce tipat with noodles, plus rujak kuah pindang

TipDishes run from about IDR 8,000 to IDR 20,000. The owner says the warung can close early once the food sells out, so arrive early.

Directions

Warung De Rujak ★ 3.9

$ Street foodDenpasar

Why locals goA Denpasar rujak warung on Jalan Pulau Misol serving rujak kuah pindang, tipat cantok and Balinese porridge, with rujak from about IDR 10,000 a portion.

TipPair the rujak with tipat cantok or tipat serombotan, which cost IDR 10,000 to 15,000, and cool down with an es daluman.

Directions

Warung Men Runtu ★ 4.4

$ Street foodSanur

Warung Men Runtu on Jl. Sekuta in Sanur, Bali, has served rujak kuah pindang, rujak bulung and tipat cantok since 2015, open daily from 10:30 to 18:00.

TryRujak kuah pindang: fruit rujak in a savoury pindang fish broth

TipFruit rujak in a pindang fish broth is rarely found outside Bali. Arrive well before the 18:00 close and add rujak bulung or tipat cantok.

Directions

Art Cafe Bumbu Bali ★ 4.0

$$ BalineseNusa Dua

Art Cafe Bumbu Bali serves only Balinese cooking in a Balinese-house setting on Jl. Pintas Siligita in Nusa Dua, Bali, from the Bumbu Bali team.

SignatureNasi campur, Rijsttafel

Directions

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