Ketoprak (dish) Ketoprak (dish) Ketoprak is a vegetarian dish from Jakarta, Indonesia, consists of tofu, vegetables and rice cake, rice vermicelli served in peanut sauce. The etymology of the name "ketoprak" is unknown, and its name similarity to the Javanese folk-drama is peculiar. However, according to popular Betawi tradition, "ketoprak" was actually derived from the acronym of its ingredients; which are ket from "ketupat", to from "tahu" and "toge", and prak from "digeprak" (Betawi for: "mashed" or "crushed"), which describes the method on grounding garlic, chili pepper and peanut granules together to create the peanut sauce. Although today ketoprak is often associated
Café de Paris sauce butter is shaped into a roll using aluminium foil and chilled. When the dish is served, a piece of the butter is sliced off and allowed to melt on the hot meat. Café de Paris sauce Café de Paris sauce is a complex butter-based sauce served with grilled beef. When it is served with the sliced portion of an "entrecôte" (in American English: a rib eye steak) or a "faux-filet" (in English: a sirloin steak) the resulting dish is known as ""entrecôte" Café de Paris". The sauce was first popularised in the 1940s by the Café de Paris restaurant in