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Lemper is a snack made of sticky rice, usually filled with shredded or minced chicken and wrapped in banana leaves. Lemper is famous Indonesia and eaten as a hunger booster before eating the main meal. This food is often used as a favorite menu in a snack box among other traditional cakes.
Lemper consists of glutinous rice and cooked with coconut milk. The lemper filling is then put into the cooked glutinous rice and then compacted and wrapped in banana leaves.
It tastes savory when eaten and makes you want to add more and more. This is just the taste for the sticky rice and meat, banana leaves are not included. The texture of lemper is denser and stickier than arem-arem. The taste tends to be savory and slightly sweet, depending on the filling in the lemper itself.
And this time we will make this incredible food for you, so you can follow the recipe below:
LEMPER AYU RECIPE
for 20-25 pieces
Ingredient :
500 g White glutinous rice, soaked in water for 2-3 hours minimum, drained
200 ml Coconut milk, from 1 coconut
1 tsp Salt
2 Pandan leaves, tied into a knot
Filling :
½ kg Chicken, boiled until tender, shredded and finely sliced
200 ml coconut milk
1 bay Leaf
1 stalk Lemongrass, crushed
Ground spices :
3 cloves Garlic
6 Shallots
1 tsp Coriander
½ tsp Aromatic ginger
2 Candlenuts, fried without oil
½ tsp Salt
2-3 tsp Palm sugar
How to make :
1. Saute ground spices until fragrant, add chicken, bay leaf and lemongrass. Cook until mixture is no longer watery, remove from heat and leave to cool.
2. Steam together pandan leaves and glutinous rice until half cooked, transfer to another pan.
3. Add coconut milk and salt. Boil on low heat until coconut milk is fully absorbed. Steam again until rice is completely cooked.
4. When still steaming hot, level and flatten steamed glutinous rice to 1 cm thickness. Cut to 6×8 cm rectangles.
5. Place 1 tbs filling on a rice rectangle, fold in two, and shape into a compact oval shape. Wrap with banana leaf.
6. Lemper ready to serve.
