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Katupa

Name: Katupa
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Timor-Leste
Ingredients: 300g Glutinous rice; 400ml Coconut milk; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Water

Rice

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Rice packed into woven palm-leaf pouches and boiled — East Timor's celebration rice.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Katupa is sticky rice or rice packed into small pouches woven from young palm leaves and boiled in coconut milk until set. Close to Indonesia's ketupat, in East Timor it's made for weddings, Christmas, and church events. It's good even cold and handy to carry.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a church feast day in East Timor, women boil small woven palm-leaf parcels in big pots until green bundles pile up like mountains.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Glutinous rice 300g
Coconut milk 400ml
Salt 1 tsp
Water To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the sticky rice, soak 2 hours, and drain.
Mix the coconut milk and salt, add the rice, and simmer 10 minutes to absorb the liquid.
Divide the rice into portions, wrap in banana leaves or similar, and tie with string (fill only 70%, as it swells).
Boil in plenty of water for 1 1/2 hours.
Cool, then unwrap and slice.

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