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

Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered). Lemper ayam is basically a steamed glutinous rice/sticky rice snack with chicken floss (or other savory) Steam the sticky/glutinous rice with salt, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, daun salam, and pandan leaves. Then, spread all the spiced chicken floss on top and press again into an even layer. Lemper Ayam is definitely one of my favorite snacks and it's a popular jajanan pasar in Indonesia.

Terima kasih untuk menonton, silahkan like jika suka. You've probably have seen lemper ayam at an Asian supermarket. Sticky rice with chicken filling, super delicious! You can cook Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered) using 22 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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. You need 2 stalks of pandan leaves.
5. You need 2 stalks of bay leaves.
6. You need 1 tsp of salt.
7. You need of Chicken filling.
8. You need 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. You need 6 cloves of garlic.
11. You need 3 pcs of candlenuts.
12. Prepare 1 tbs of coriander seed.
13. You need 100 ml of coconut milk (or you can replace it with chicken stock).
14. You need 2 pcs of kaffir lime leaves.
15. You need 1 stalk of lemongrass.
16. You need 1 tbs of salt.
17. It's 1 tbs of sugar.
18. You need 1 tsp of white pepper.
19. Prepare of Oil.
20. You need of The wrap.
21. You need leaves of Banana.
22. You need of Tooth pick.

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. Sort of sticky rice dumpling stuffed with shredded spiced chicken. This is one of Indonesia's favourite snacks.

Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered) instructions

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.

Place a tablespoon of the chicken mixture in the centre of the rice and, using the foil, lift the rice around the mixture so that the end result is croquette shape with the rice covering the filling on all. Ideally, you would steam the sticky rice. If the rice is too mushy/overcooked, don't be afraid and just make your lemper! Set an oven on low heat and put the lemper until they dry out. Sort of sticky rice dumpling stuffed with stuffed shredded spiced chicken.