Recipe of Homemade Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lemper ayam (chicken wrapped in glutinous rice). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Commonly found in traditional markets, bakeries and cafes across Indonesia, Lemper Ayam is a popular savory snack that is made of steamed glutinous rice usually stuffed with meat, and wrapped in banana leaves. I've chosen to use ayam, or chicken, for the filling in this recipe as it is well-loved by my family and friends. Mix in the steamed glutinous rice in the coconut. To cook the chicken: steam the chicken breasts, shredded the chicken.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemper ayam (chicken wrapped in glutinous rice) using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice):

1. Prepare For the glutinous rice
2. Make ready 300 gr white glutinous rice
3. Prepare 300 ml coconut milk (I used 1 box 200 ml thick coconut milk KARA and mixed with 200 ml water, take 300 ml for the rice, 100 ml to cook the chicken)
4. Make ready 1 stalk lemongrass, smashed
5. Prepare 2 pcs indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
6. Make ready to taste Salt,sugar,pepper,chicken stock
7. Get 1 stalk pandan leaf
8. Make ready For the chicken filling
9. Get 250 gr chicken breast meat
10. Take 100 ml coconut milk (I used 1 box 200 ml thick coconut milk KARA and mixed with 200 ml water, take 300 ml for the rice, 100 ml for the chicken)
11. Get 4 pcs lime leaves
12. Prepare 2 pcs indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
13. Take to taste Salt, sugar, pepper, chicken powder
14. Prepare Paste Seasoning for the chicken (put in the grinder)
15. Make ready 5 shallots
16. Take 4 garlics
17. Make ready 2 pcs candlenuts
18. Prepare 1 tsp corriander seed powder
19. Prepare Other:
20. Prepare Cooking oil
21. Make ready leaves Banana
22. Prepare Kitchen twine

I think of lemper as Indonesian version of onigiri, except of course we don't eat the banana leaves, just the rice and the filling. And if I have to choose between the two, I will always choose lemper. Lemper Ayam is definitely one of my favorite snacks and it's a popular jajanan pasar in Indonesia. It is made with white glutinous rice with shredded chicken meat stuffed inside the rice.

Instructions to make Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice):

1. For the glutinous rice: soak the glutinous rice for few hours. Drain. Steam the rice for 15 minutes
2. In another pot, bring to boil 300 ml coconut milk, add smashed lemongrass and pandan leaf. Off the fire.
3. Mix in the steamed glutinous rice in the coconut. Continue to stir until the glutinous rice absorb the coconut milk
4. Steam the rice again for 30 minutes until fully cooked.
5. To cook the chicken: steam the chicken breasts, shredded the chicken.
6. Heat some oil in the pan, saute the paste seasoning, kaffir lime leaves, bayleaves, until fragrant. Add the shredded chicken and coconut milk. Continue cooking until dry. Add salt, pepper, chicken powder to taste
7. To assemble: use 20x20 cm pan. Layer it with cling wrap first for easy removal. Take half of the glutinous rice, pack it down the pan. Press hard with rice spoon/your hand - pls use plastic glove otherwise will be very sticky
8. Put the chicken. Press hard. Lastly put the remaining half of the glutinous rice
9. Remove from the pan, cut with plastic knives. Wrap with banana leaves and secure it with kitchen twine
10. Using happycall pan, grill the lemper until the banana leaves turn brown and fragrant. Ready to serve :)

Lemper Ayam is definitely one of my favorite snacks and it's a popular jajanan pasar in Indonesia. It is made with white glutinous rice with shredded chicken meat stuffed inside the rice. The chicken meat and sticky rice are cooked with aromatic spices and herbs and that's what makes this sticky rice cake super delicious. Lemper Ayam (Healthy Indonesian Snack) In this recipe, we will be making Chicken Lemper, a traditional savoury Indonesian snack made with glutinous rice with shredded chicken filling and wrapped in lotus leaves. It is the Southeast asian version of the Japanese Onigiri.

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