What Indonesian green pancake roll is filled with grated coconut and palm sugar?

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The Indonesian green pancake roll filled with grated coconut and palm sugar is dadar gulung.

Dadar gulung is a Javanese snack whose name literally combines dadar, meaning omelette or pancake, and gulung, meaning rolled. A thin batter commonly made with rice flour, eggs, coconut milk, and salt is cooked like a crepe. The sheet is colored and scented with pandan or suji leaves, producing its characteristic green appearance.

Its filling, called inti in many descriptions, combines grated coconut with palm sugar and often a little salt or pandan for fragrance. The pancake is folded around the filling and rolled into a compact parcel, usually served warm or at room temperature as a traditional market snack or kue.

Dadar gulung is associated especially with Java but is now found widely across Indonesia. Related names include kuih ketayap, kuih lenggang, and kuih dadar in Malaysia and Brunei. It is easy to confuse with klepon: both use palm sugar and coconut, but klepon is a boiled glutinous rice ball, while dadar gulung is a rolled pancake.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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