Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice)
Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice)

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

Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Lemper Ayam (Chicken wrapped in Glutinous Rice) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Lemper ayam is basically a steamed glutinous rice/sticky rice snack with chicken floss (or other savory) filling, and typically wrapped in banana leaves. As such, there are two components in any lemper making endeavor 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Prepare 300 gr white glutinous rice
  3. Make ready 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. Get 1 stalk lemongrass, smashed
  5. Prepare 2 pcs indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
  6. Take to taste Salt,sugar,pepper,chicken stock
  7. Take 1 stalk pandan leaf
  8. Prepare For the chicken filling
  9. Make ready 250 gr chicken breast meat
  10. Prepare 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. Make ready 4 pcs lime leaves
  12. Get 2 pcs indonesian bayleaves (daun salam)
  13. Get to taste Salt, sugar, pepper, chicken powder
  14. Prepare Paste Seasoning for the chicken (put in the grinder)
  15. Make ready 5 shallots
  16. Prepare 4 garlics
  17. Prepare 2 pcs candlenuts
  18. Get 1 tsp corriander seed powder
  19. Get Other:
  20. Prepare Cooking oil
  21. Get leaves Banana
  22. Get Kitchen twine

You've probably have seen lemper ayam at an Asian supermarket. Sticky rice with chicken filling, super delicious! Note: its recommended to soak the sticky rice for a few hours, or a whole night in a decent amount of water. Lemper ayam — sticky rice with chicken filling ingredients.

Steps 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 :)

My White Chicken Curry and Sticky Rice Dumpling is based on one of my favorite Indonesian snacks, lemper ayam, literally chicken lemper. Take a bite of this delicious dumpling (as I did above), and you'll be biting into a savory, spiced chicken filling wrapped with slightly sweet purple sticky rice. Lemper is like an Indonesian sushi. It is made from a sticky glutinous rice filled with kencur chicken and wrapped in banana leaves. The Klepon was excellence as I am used to making.

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