What is Lemper?

Lemper is Indonesian traditional snacks made of glutinous rice.

Usually, long-shaped donuts with chicken stuffing. Lemper looks like Sushi Japan.

Glutinous rice

• 300 gram white glutinous rice (Indonesian: beras ketan putih), soak for 2 to 3 hours
• 200 ml coconut milk (Indonesian: santan)
• 4 kaffir lime leaves (Indonesian: daun jeruk)
• 4 bay leaves (Indonesian: daun salam)
• 2 pandan leaves (Indonesian: daun pandan), knotted
• ½ teaspoon salt

Spiced chicken floss

• 250 gram boneless skinless chicken breast (Indonesian: daging dada ayam)
• 2 tablespoon oil
• 4 shallots (Indonesian: bawang merah)
• 3 cloves garlic (Indonsian: bawang putih)
• 3 candlenuts (Indonesian: kemiri)
• ½ teaspoon coriander seeds (Indonesian: biji ketumbar)
• ½ teaspoon cumin seeds (Indonesian: biji jinten)
• 2 kaffir lime leaves (Indonesian: daun jeruk)
• 2 bay leaves (Indonesian: daun salam)
• 1 teaspoon tamarind + 3 tablespoon water, seeds and pulp removed
• 100 ml coconut milk
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2½ tablespoon sugar

How to cook

Making content: enter the chicken into the water and boil until cooked and then lift the chicken. ...

Combine chicken, spices, lemongrass, pepper, bay leaf, sugar. and salt and stir until evenly distributed. ...

Steamed glutinous rice for ± 20 minutes or until cooked through, then remove from heat.

Boil coconut milk, lemongrass, bay leaves and salt until boiling. After that, turn off the heat and add the glutinous rice and cook until absorbed. After that, lift and steamed around ± 30 minutes or until cooked

Flatten slightly sticky and give the contents. Then the form of donuts to your liking and then wrap with banana leaves

Lemper delicious ready to eat the contents of chickens

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