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

Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered). Great recipe for Lemper Ayam (Steamed Sticky Rice with Umami Chicken Layered). As Indonesian who lives overseas and my house is located far away from the city, find Indonesian snacks is somewhat difficult. So, i try to make it by myself.

Cook until of the coconut milk fully absorbed. Spread half of the sticky rice onto a box shaped cake mould, spread the chicken stuffing, and then spread the other half of the sticky rice on top of the stuffing. Lemper Ayam - Steamed Glutinous Rice with Spiced Chicken Floss How to assemble lemper, the traditional way. You can have 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. You need of Steam sticky rice.
2. It's 1 kg of sticky rice (washed and soaked in water for 3-4 hours before using it).
3. It's 1 L of coconut milk.
4. Prepare 2 stalks of pandan leaves.
5. It's 2 stalks of bay leaves.
6. It's 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. Prepare 8 cloves of shallots.
10. You need 6 cloves of garlic.
11. It's 3 pcs of candlenuts.
12. Prepare 1 tbs of coriander seed.
13. It's 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. It's 1 tsp of white pepper.
19. You need of Oil.
20. You need of The wrap.
21. It's leaves of Banana.
22. It's of Tooth pick.

The traditional way to assemble a lemper is by taking a handful of steamed sticky rice/glutinous rice, place some meat filling at the center, enclose the meat witht the rice, then wrap the whole thing in banana leaves. Put the rice back on top of the banana leaves in the steamer basket. Remove from the heat and discard lemongrass and the leaves. Keep the rice covered until ready to make lemper so that it doesn't become dry.

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.

While the rice is being steamed, put water and chicken breast into a pot. 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 TRANSFER the steamed rice to a boil and POUR in the water. COVER with cling film and let the rice absorb the water completely.