Chicken ‘Lemper’
This utterly delicious dish is a favourite savoury snack in Indonesia. One bite of the fragrant coconut-flavoured sticky rice with a spicy chicken filling, dipped in bread crumbs and fried to perfection and you’re in food heaven!
Serves
2
Cooking Time
30 mins
Cuisine
Indonesian
Ingredients for the ‘Lemper’
- 3 eggs
- 1 ¼ cups coconut milk (thick)
- 2 spoons butter, melted
- 4 oz all-purpose wheat flour
- Salt
- (All the ingredients above to be put in a blender and sieved)
Ingredients for the filling
- 15 pieces chicken frankfurter
- 10 pieces chicken sausages
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups bread crumbs
- Oil to fry
- 2 packets Brahim’s Lemon sauce
- 1 cup pineapple, diced small
- Spring onions
- Coriander
- Green chili
Instructions for the ‘Lemper’
- Heat some oil in a non-stick flat pan.
- Prepare this ‘Lemper’ as if you are preparing a ‘Lempeng’ (thin pancake).
- Spoon the batter on the flat pan and make circular motions so the batter gets evened out.
- Flip the ‘Lempeng’ and let it cook for a few more seconds.
- Take it out of the pan and repeat the process until you have finished the batter.
Instructions for the dish
- Roll the ‘Lemper’ with the chicken sausage and frankfurter one by one.
- Dip it in egg and roll it in bread crumbs.
- Fry it until golden brown
- Heat up the lemon sauce and diced pineapples in water.
- Bring it to a boil and pour it on the ‘Lemper’ before it is served.
- Garnish it with spring onions, coriander and green chili.
