Recipe: Appetizing Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered)

Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered). Put sticky rice on bottom, layered with chicken and sticky rice again on baking tray/pyrex, cool-off until a bit hard, cut-off into small square then wrap it one by one. As the rice very sticky, dont forget to brush any tools with oil even if you use baking paper like mine. And also brush your knive with oil too before cutting off the lemper Sticky rice with chicken filling, super delicious!

Lemper Ayam is a traditional Indonesian savoury snack that I favoured as a little girl because my mom would frequently buy these from the wet market in the morning. This snack can be described as steamed sticky rice with spiced chicken floss filling. 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. You can cook Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered) using 22 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered)

1. It's of Steam sticky rice.
2. Prepare 1 kg of sticky rice (washed and soaked in water for 3-4 hours before using it).
3. Prepare 1 L of coconut milk.
4. It's 2 stalks of pandan leaves.
5. It's 2 stalks of bay leaves.
6. You need 1 tsp of salt.
7. It's of Chicken filling.
8. It's 2 pcs of chicken breast (boiled with 2 pcs of kaffir lime leaves to remove the odor then shredded into small pieces).
9. You need 8 cloves of shallots.
10. It's 6 cloves of garlic.
11. Prepare 3 pcs of candlenuts.
12. Prepare 1 tbs of coriander seed.
13. Prepare 100 ml of coconut milk (or you can replace it with chicken stock).
14. It's 2 pcs of kaffir lime leaves.
15. It's 1 stalk of lemongrass.
16. It's 1 tbs of salt.
17. It's 1 tbs of sugar.
18. You need 1 tsp of white pepper.
19. It's of Oil.
20. You need of The wrap.
21. Prepare leaves of Banana.
22. You need of Tooth pick.

It is the Southeast asian version of the Japanese Onigiri. Lemper ayam is an Indonesian snack consists of steamed glutinous rice filled with spiced chicken floss, and typically wrapped in banana leaves. 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 (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered) step by step

1. Put the soaked sticky rice into steamer and steam about 10-15 mins. Set aside. On other sauce pan, boil the coconut cream together with pandan leaves, bay leaves and a pinch of salt. Put the steamed sticky rice to the sauce pan and stir until it well mixed and all the sticky rice is covered by coconut milk. Then put back again to steamer and steam to another 40-50 minutes or until the rice well cooked. Set aside. Anyway, dont forget to brush your steamer with a bit of oil before steam the rice.
2. Put shallot, garlic, candlenut, coriander seed on food processor, then add kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass with a bit of oil on fry pan, Sauté until smell good. Put the shredded chicken, add sugar, salt and white pepper, stir again. Last but not least, put coconut milk/chicken stock and stir again until the liquid runs dry. You have to make the chicken a bit dry in texture. Set aside..
3. Put sticky rice on bottom, layered with chicken and sticky rice again on baking tray/pyrex, cool-off until a bit hard, cut-off into small square then wrap it one by one. As the rice very sticky, dont forget to brush any tools with oil even if you use baking paper like mine. And also brush your knive with oil too before cutting off the lemper.

Lemper Ayam (Coconut Flavored Sticky Rice with Spiced Chicken Filling) is one of my favorite Indonesian snacks. The sticky rice is mixed in coconut milk and kaffir lime and bay leaves while the chicken filling is cooked with coconut milk and some spices making lemper very flavorful. This time I made one of 'jajanan pasar' (Indonesian traditional snack), but the savory one, which is lemper. To make it easy, I just make a layer version of lemper. So I just have to make a layer.