Indonesian Chiken Sticky Rice aka 'lemper' - naked version

Okay now I know why my mum didn't let me eat this when I was a kid. Cause it can be sooo addictive. I think it's the coconut milk, or I think mum knew I just don't have self control.

This actually the first time I made sticky rice in my life, the fact that I don't have a proper steamer made the process of making it longer, but I think it's worth it :)

The original recipe used shallot and tamarind, but I don't have it at home so as always I did a tweak of the recipe by omitting it. But I'm sure it will taste nicer with the shallot and tamarind..

Sticky Rice Recipe:
250gr glutinous rice
250 ml coconut milk
2 bay leaves
1 tbs lemongrass
1/2 tsp salt

Sticky Rice Steps:
1. Soak glutinous rice for 2 hours - wash - dry - steam for 15 minutes - remove from heat.

2. Boil coconut milk with bay leave, lemongrass, salt and put the glutinous rice, stir until coconut milk dry - remove from heat.

3. Put the glutinous rice back to the steamer - steam until it's done (try to eat it if it's still tough then it's not ready, the sticky rice should be easily mould once it's ready)

Spices:
3 candle nuts
1 tbs whole coriander
1 tsp cumin
1 tbs caster sugar
3 cloves garlic

Spices Steps:
1. Fry candlenuts, whole coriander and cumin without oil

2. Put all the spices into the food processor.

Chicken:
1 Chicken breast (boiled and pull apart with hand or finely chop with knife if you're lazy)
1 bay leave
4 kaffir lime leaves
200 ml coconut milk

Chicken Steps:
1. Stir fry the mix spices until fragrant, pour coconut milk, all the leaves and the chicken until the coconut milk mixed thru and dry.

2. Remove from heat.

The presentation:
1. Lay out your cling wrap, and use plastic gloves if you have it.
2. Or prepare to get messy since it's quite sticky.
3. Pour half or the glutinous rice, put chicken on top, seal it with the rice again. Doesn't matter if you feel like a rectangle or round shape.
4. Eat it.


The original 'lemper' used banana leaf as its wrapper, but again I don't have it so I called it 'naked lemper'. Save time to peel the wrapper anyway..hence *danger alert*
But if you have it then by all means, use it!!

This recipe that I found was supposed to make 12 'lemper', but I only ended up with only 10. And why only five in the photo you say? Well..I've already said it's addictive so you do the math.

It's surprisingy easy to make but it just takes time (especially with my so-called steamer) but definitely a great snack to bring/ make for a house party :)

Aneka Soto

Still plenty of posts to go until the present time.

We're currently still travel back in time, this was after I told Moco I had Indo's food for the Hen's night dinner (on Friday) so on Sunday lunch we decided to visit an Indo's noodle place that we haven't visited for a while down in Mascot. But to our greatest surprise, the place has now moved to Kingsford, to be rejoin with the rest of Indo restaurants I supposed?

Still wanted to have Indo's cuisines but not willing to drive back to Kingsford, we just realized there's another Indo restaurant just across the street!

Apparently the restaurant has been around for more than three years but Moco and I just never heard about it, oh well let's give it a go :)

Just like the nite at Joy, we had the rissole as the appetizer


As my personal preference I liked Joy's rissole better since I found Joy's sauce was more peanuty and the rissole itself was more ragouty *don't think ragouty is even a word? =p

the kerupuk putih (white cracker) that always made me feel like home :)

I was so excited when I saw the 'ketoprak ulek' on the menu. I love peanuts based dish and ketoprak is definitely one of my Indo's fave dish so I'm quite critical of it. I still haven't found the dish that tasted like the one I really liked at home yet, not even close. So I always try it whenever I go to a new resto.

Unfortunately it seems I still have to keep on looking..

Soto Mie

I quite like Moco's soto mie, but still to be honest it's nothing compared to hawker's soto mie I had across to my old school.

Moco loves empal, we already found the good empal place but always curious if we could find a better place to order it. So we tried it but we found the empal was a bit too hard for our liking. The liver was okay, it's dry just the way I like it.

Empal and ati goreng (fried marinated beef and fried liver).

So I guess there's a reason why this restaurant was named 'Aneka Soto' which literaly means 'Various Soups'. They're obviously strong in the soupy dishes. We might just need to stick to our regular Indo's resto to get out empal supply and I will still need to keep on looking for the great ketoprak ulek but I guess we wouldn't mind to come back to try other soupy menu and of course some kerupuk putih :)

Joy Cafe and Superbowl

My first Indo's hens nite here! and to celebrate it we had dinner in an Indo restaurant =p

Well that's what happened but we actually didn't plan to have dinner there, initially we just wanted to have a snack!

ragout rissole with peanut sauce

But looked what we ended up with..

lontong sayur (rice dumplings and chicken with curry sauce)

nasi uduk (coconut rice with fried chicken and side dishes)

signature chicken noodle - my friend put way too much chili. Too hot for everyone!

Tongseng (goat curry) - this is surprisingly yummy hehe

After dinner we went to buy some snacks and got back to the hotel. However at 1am we decided it's time for another snacks. So we head back to chinatown to get some chilli fish balls!

Fishball attack!

Refreshing drink for the heat

I guess it always started as a snack but again look what we ended up with...

Salt and pepper deep fried tofu (quite pricey though $16.80 for this?)

Pork mince congee - never say no to congee :)

Never ate so much for a hens nite before!!