Lelung – Gule Balung

Gulai or Gule is a type of food contained rich, spicy and succulent curry-like sauce. The main ingredients might be chicken, beef, mutton, various kinds of offals, fish and seafoods, and also vegetables such as cassava leafs and young jackfruit. The gulai sauce commonly have thick consistency with yellowish color because of the addition of ground turmeric. Gulai ingredients consists of rich spices such as turmeric, coriander, black pepper, galangal, ginger, chilli pepper, shallot, garlic, fennel, lemongrass, cinnamon and caraway, all these spices is ground into paste and cooked in coconut milk with main ingredient. Gulai is often described as an Indonesian type of curry.

Gulai is one of the popular and widely distribute dish in Indonesian archipelago, especially in Sumatra, Java and also Malay peninsula. The dish was originated from Sumatra, and tought to be the local adaptation of Indian curry, developed and derived from Indian cuisine influence on Indonesian cuisine. The thick and yellowish gulai sauce is one of the most common sauce in Minangkabau cuisine to gave rich and spicy taste for meats, fishes or vegetables. The gulai sauce found in Minangkabau, Aceh, and Malay cuisine is usually have thick consistency, while the gulai in Java is thinner served in soup-like dish contains pieces of mutton, beef or offal.

Lelung or Gule Balung is a gulai with goat bones as the main ingredients. On these goat bones there’s goat meat that still attached, so the fun in eating the goat meat becomes the main point in enjoying this cuisine.

Lelung Jodog

In Gilangharjo, you can find this cuisine at “Lelung Jodog” restaurant. As the name implies, the main menu of this restaurant is Gule Balung and this restaurant is located at Jodog, precisely on Jl.Srandakan KM. 1, Jodog Legi, Gilangharjo, Pandak, Bantul. “Lelung Jodog” restaurant opens from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. everyday.

Gule Balung

In addition to Lelung, another menus in this restaurant are satay, tongseng, head curry, kikil curry, and mutton curry. Each menu in this restaurant are priced IDR 10,000 excluding rice and a drink orIDR 15,000 with rice and a drink.

You can order lelung in kendil (clay pot) by the number of over 20 servings and Gudeg Manggar by contacting Mr. Wardoyo at the following number: +62747812930.

Review Gulai Balung

Gudeg is a traditional food which is made from young jack fruit boiled for several hours with palm sugar, and coconut milk. Additional spices include garlic, shallot, candlenut, coriander seed, galangal, bay leaves, and teak leaves. In Gudeg Manggar, manggar is used as the main ingredient to replace young jackfruit. Manggar is young coconut flower buds.