Burasa
Burasa or buras is a type of Indonesian rice dumpling, cooked with coconut milk packed inside a banana leaf pouch. It is a delicacy of the Bugis and Makassar people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and often consumed as a staple to replace steamed rice or ketupat. It is similar to lontong, but with richer flavour acquired from coconut milk.
Buras is made by steaming the rice until half-cooked, then cooking further in coconut milk mixed with daun salam and salt until all of the coconut milk is absorbed into the rice. Then the half-cooked coconut milk rice is wrapped inside banana leaves in cylindrical or pillow shapes, secured with strings made from banana leaf fibers. Usually, two cylinders of burasa are tied together as one. The rice packages are then steamed further until completely cooked.
Buras can be consumed as a snack with serundeng, hard-boiled egg, or sambal kacang. Bugis and Makassar people often consumed burasa as a staple to replace steamed rice or ketupat, usually accompanied with Coto Makassar, konro, pallubasa or nasu lekku. They also often took burasa as food provisions or rations during sailing or travelling.
