A rich beef and offal soup thickened with ground peanuts, eaten with ketupat.
Coto Makassar is a hearty soup of beef and offal simmered with a spice paste and ground roasted peanuts, and flavoured with water used to wash rice.
It is eaten with ketupat or burasa, rice cakes wrapped in leaves, and is a favourite breakfast in Makassar.
Cultural context
A breakfast staple of Makassar, the port city of the Bugis and Makassar peoples.
Key ingredients
- Beef and offal
- Ground roasted peanuts
- Spice paste
- Rice-washing water
- Ketupat
Good to know
- Beef and ground peanuts
- Eaten with ketupat
- Makassar breakfast staple
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