What is : "Lemper"

Lemper is a snack made of glutinous rice and typically contain shredded or chopped chicken meat and wrapped in banana leaves.This confectionary well known throughout Indonesia as a booster stomach before entering the stage of a great meal. Lemper manufacture involves preparing minced chicken and sticky rice cooking such as cooking rice (can be combined with coconut milk). Furthermore, chicken meat that has been minced wrapped with sticky rice and sticky rice is wrapped by banana leaves in the form of large, elongated shape like a cake, then steamed until cooked and cooled, after cold pack lemper that extends it sliced ​​crosswise with a thickness as desired so the content of minced chicken looks.In a variation of making lemper has now been changed mainly commercialized ie after glutinous cooked and stuffed with minced chicken, large size direct to the size specified then rolled with plastic wrap double crossed, afterwards in isolation with isolation transparently without going through the process of steaming and immediately sold it to save time and costs.There are variations of lemper, which uses coatings crepe (crepe) is made from flour, spices and then fried eggs known as semar mendem. People know also arem-arem which uses glutinous rice instead.

 Lemper is one of the typical culinary Java is still highly conserved until now. This savory culinary flavors are still often adorn a variety of traditional Javanese events, ranging from wedding ceremony, to a snack in the event of salvation baby. Lemper also still be the choice of favorite foods used as ulih-ulih. Ulih-ulih is a term that people use Java as a thank you to relatives who come and take part in a ceremony procession happy family wedding celebration Java.Lemper is a food made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk. Both of these ingredients will make savory and delicious taste. Lemper generally filled using cooked chicken meat savory using water and coconut milk flavored form of onion, garlic, coriander, nutmeg, bay leaves, lemon grass and salt. Lemper before the content is created, generally chopped chicken meat first, then cooked until no longer soupy. Thus seasoning chicken meat will be pervasive and pose a delicious savory flavor.After the material is ripe, then this lemper making process can begin. Lemper generally made sticky when it's not too hot. This savory flavored foods wrapped in banana leaves have withered. One lump of sticky rice will be formed oval and flattened and filled with one tablespoon of minced meat that has been cooked. Furthermore glutinous stay close to its original shape, which is oval, similar to the shape cake. After the second key lemper ends with a piece of stick. Steam for about 30 minutes or steamed until cooked. Serve warm.One fruit lemper sold at a price of about Rp 2,000 to Rp 3,000 only. One of the traditional hawker center in Yogyakarta is Kranggan Markets and Markets Legi Kotagede. In both places you can find a variety of traditional snacks with pocket-friendly prices. No culinary curious about anything in this Jogja both traditional markets? Immediately insert both in your travel agenda during a vacation in Jogja. Happy traveling !

Source : wikipedia & yogyakarta.panduanwisata