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Nagasari is a traditional Indonesian steamed cake, originating from Javanese cuisine, made of rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with a slice of banana and wrapped in banana leaves.

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Prepared food.name
Nagasari
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Nagasari_2.jpg
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Nagasari, Indonesian traditional cake wrapped in banana leaves
Prepared food.country
Indonesia
Prepared food.region
Java
Prepared food.course
Snack
Prepared food.served
Room temperature
Prepared food.main_ingredient
Steamed rice flour with sugar filled with banana and wrapped inside banana leaf
Prepared food.variations
Green, white, blue.
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300px

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Nagasari is a traditional Indonesian steamed cake, originating from Javanese cuisine, made of rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with a slice of banana and wrapped in banana leaves.

==Etymology== Naga in Javanese language means "a big snake; a dragon". It refers to a mythical green snake in the Old Java that brings fertility to the earth. The word is derived from a Sanskrit word naga. Sari means "beautiful; fertile; patient" or "seed; flower".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nagasari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.