Indonesia has a variety of distinctive traditional culinary. From heavy, dry, soup to traditional snacks that are commonly sold in markets. One of the most popular Indonesian traditional snacks is Lemper.

Lemper is usually sold with other traditional snacks such as cucur, arem-arem, and so on. From the outside, the Lemper dish looks similar to arem-arem because they are both wrapped in banana leaves. The difference is, arem-arem is made from rice and lemper is made from glutinous rice.

Both have filling, but lemper is usually filled with chicken or shredded meat. The fluffier texture of the sticky rice combined with chicken or shredded meat creates a savory taste with a hint of sweetness. Not only delicious, Lemper can also fill your stomach because it is made from sticky rice because it contains carbohydrates.

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Lemper is usually served for arisan dishes, snack box jakarta for seminars, or snacks for weddings. Over time, it turns out that many people have modified the shape, filling and serving of lemper.

Chicken Lemper Recipe:

Glutinous rice ingredients:

– 250 gr glutinous rice

– 1 lemongrass, crushed

– 2 bay leaves

– 2 pieces of lime leaves

– 150 ml coconut milk taken from 1/4 coconut

– 1/2 teaspoon salt

– Banana leaves to taste

Stuffing material:

– 5 chicken thighs on the bottom or 1 chicken breast fillet

– 1 lemongrass, crushed

– 2 bay leaves

– 2 pieces of lime leaves

– 1/4 tsp ground pepper

– 1/2 teaspoon salt

– 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar

– 100 ml coconut milk taken from 1/4 coconut

– 750 ml of water to boil chicken

Ground spices:

– 4 cloves garlic

– 6 shallots

– 1 tsp coriander

– 3 grains of roasted hazelnut

How to make:

1. Wash the glutinous rice, then soak in water for 1 hour.

2. Steam the soaked rice for 20 minutes, until half cooked.

3. In another pan, boil the coconut milk, lemongrass, bay leaves, lime leaves and salt until it boils.

4. Enter the glutinous rice that has been steamed half cooked. Diaron or stir until the coconut milk is absorbed.

5. Heat the steamer, then steam the glutinous rice again for 30 minutes or until cooked.

6. Chicken filling: wash the chicken, then boil it until cooked. Drain the chicken. Take 125 ml of broth.

7. Shredded chicken meat.

8. Saute ground spices and other whole spices until fragrant.

9. Enter the shredded chicken, add coconut milk, broth, salt sugar. Stir well, taste correction.

10. Cook until the spices are absorbed and crumbled.

11. Solution: divide the sticky rice into 2 equal parts.

12. Prepare a baking sheet, cover with plastic or grease with oil.

13. Pour the sticky rice, smooth it out.

14. Give the chicken meat filling, flatten.

15. Then cover with the remaining sticky rice l, flatten and compact.

16. Cut the lemper evenly. Then wrap it in banana leaves.

17. Serve.

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