Masakan Ibu paling enak dimakan bersama keluarga.

Here masakan is a noun, not a verb. It means cooking, cooked food, or dish(es).

So masakan Ibu means Mother’s cooking or Mom’s dishes.

A few useful comparisons:

• Ibu masak = Mother cooks
• masakan Ibu = Mother’s cooking / the food Mother makes

This is a very common Indonesian pattern:

• buku saya = my book
• rumah Andi = Andi’s house
• masakan Ibu = Mother’s cooking

Indonesian usually shows possession just by putting the owner after the thing possessed.

Ibu can mean mother, but it is also a respectful title like Mrs., Ma’am, or Madam.

In this sentence, the capital I strongly suggests that Ibu is being used like a title or form of address, almost like saying Mom rather than just mother.

So:

• ibu = mother / a mother / madam
• Ibu = Mom, or a respectful title for a woman

In everyday writing, capitalization may not always be perfectly consistent, but here it likely gives a more personal or respectful tone.

Indonesian often leaves out the verb to be when it is not necessary.

So where English says:

• Mother’s cooking is most delicious when eaten with family

Indonesian can simply say:

• Masakan Ibu paling enak dimakan bersama keluarga

This is completely normal. In Indonesian, a sentence can often work without a separate word for is/am/are.

Enak means delicious, tasty, or sometimes more generally pleasant/nice.

Paling means most.

So:

• enak = delicious
• lebih enak = more delicious
• paling enak = most delicious / best

In this sentence, paling enak means something like:

• best
• most delicious
• tastiest

So the idea is that Mother’s cooking is at its best when eaten together with family.

Dimakan is the passive form of makan.

• makan = to eat / eat
• dimakan = to be eaten

So:

• paling enak dimakan bersama keluarga = best eaten with family

This is very natural in Indonesian. It focuses on the food and the best way to enjoy it, rather than on the person doing the eating.

If you said makan instead, the structure would be different and would not sound right in this sentence.

In this sentence, di- is a prefix that forms the passive voice.

• makan = eat
• di + makan = dimakan = be eaten / eaten

This di- must be written together with the verb:

• dimakan = correct

Be careful not to confuse it with di as a preposition meaning in / at / on, which is written separately:

• di rumah = at home
• di meja = on the table

So:

• dimakan = passive verb
• di makan = usually wrong, unless di is somehow really a separate preposition, which it is not here

Bersama keluarga means with family or together with family.

• bersama has a sense of togetherness
• dengan often just means with

Both can sometimes be translated as with, but bersama feels especially natural when talking about being together socially or emotionally.

So in this sentence:

• bersama keluarga = together with family / in the company of family

That fits the idea very well, because the sentence is about enjoying food in a family setting.

Indonesian does not use articles like English a/an/the.

Also, possession and definiteness are often understood from context.

So:

• Ibu can mean Mother, Mom, or Mrs./Ma’am, depending on context
• keluarga can mean family or the family, depending on context

English usually forces you to choose something like the family, my family, or just family, but Indonesian often leaves that open unless it needs to be made specific.

Here, bersama keluarga is naturally understood as with family or with the family.

Only the part dimakan is passive.

The whole sentence is not a simple passive sentence in the same way as The food is eaten by us. Instead, it is more like a descriptive statement:

• Masakan Ibu = the topic
• paling enak = best / most delicious
• dimakan bersama keluarga = when eaten with family / eaten together with family

A very natural English rendering is:

• Mother’s cooking is best eaten with family
• Mom’s cooking tastes best when eaten with the family
• Mother’s cooking is most enjoyable with family

So the passive is used inside the description, not as the main idea of who did what to whom.

Yes. Masakan can be flexible.

Depending on context, it can mean:

• a dish
• dishes / food
• cooking
• cuisine

In Masakan Ibu paling enak dimakan bersama keluarga, it most naturally means Mother’s cooking or the food Mother makes in a general sense, not necessarily one single dish.

That kind of number flexibility is common in Indonesian. Nouns do not have to mark singular or plural unless needed.

It means in the company of family, not that family is something you eat with.

That may sound obvious, but it is a good grammar question because bersama can look like plain with in English.

Here the meaning is social:

• dimakan bersama keluarga = eaten together with family members

It is about the situation of eating, not about ingredients or accompaniments.

Yes, that is a very natural translation.

Literally, paling enak dimakan is closer to:

• most delicious when eaten
• best eaten

But in natural English, you could also say:

• tastes best when eaten with family
• is best enjoyed with family

That captures the intended meaning well, even if it is not word-for-word.

Yes. It is very natural Indonesian.

A common pattern is:

[noun/topic] + [quality] + [verb phrase]

For example:

• Kopi ini enak diminum panas. = This coffee is good drunk hot / This coffee tastes good hot.
• Ikan itu mudah dimasak. = That fish is easy to cook.
• Masakan Ibu paling enak dimakan bersama keluarga. = Mother’s cooking is best eaten with family.

This kind of structure is common when describing the best way to eat, drink, use, or enjoy something.