Klepon (Sticky Rice Ball Stuffed with Palm Sugar). Klepon is without doubt one of my favorite traditional indonesian desserts. It is a very easy recipe with only few ingredients. I love how the liquid palm.
However, lately I have seen people using other colors.
For this recipe, I use pandan.
First, it is better to use a block of palm sugar rather than granulated.
You can have Klepon (Sticky Rice Ball Stuffed with Palm Sugar) using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Klepon (Sticky Rice Ball Stuffed with Palm Sugar)
- It's 225 gram of glutinous rice flour.
- Prepare 25 gram of rice flour.
- It's 3/4 of luke warm water.
- Prepare 2-3 drop of pasta pandan / green food coloring.
- You need 5 tablespoons of coconut sugar/ palm sugar.
- Prepare 1 cup of fresh grated coconut mixed with 1/2 yep salt.
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
When using granulated sugar, there will be less sugar in each klepon and the balance between the sticky rice. Klepon (pronounced Klē-pon), or kelepon, is a traditional Southeast Asian green-coloured balls of rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar and coated in grated coconut, originating from Indonesia. The sweet glutinous rice balls is one of popular Indonesian kue, and it is commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia.. Stuffed Rice Balls): The first time I tried Klepon I couldn't stop eating them; the chewy rice body Serve your Klepon at room temperature.
Klepon (Sticky Rice Ball Stuffed with Palm Sugar) instructions
- Mix the glutinous rice flour, rice flour, and 1/2 tsp sugar with the lukewarm water and green food coloring into a firm but flexible dough..
- Pull off one full tablespoon of the dough and shape it into a ball with approximately 2½ cm (1 inch) in diameter..
- Push a finger into the center of the ball to make a hole, and put in approximately ½ tsp. of the grated sugar. Seal, and roll it back into the ball shape with the palms of your hands..
- Prepare all the balls and set them aside. Prepare a pot half filled with water and bring it to a boil. Drop the balls into the boiling water. Remove the balls with a spoon once they float to the water surface and then roll the balls in the grated coconut..
- It would be more enjoyable if you eat this klepon cake while it is still warm with your coffee or tea. Or just for snack or dessert..
Enjoy the sticky, chewy texture of the rice ball coated with the tropical flavor of the coconut and the sweet, rich explosion of sugar in the center of the Klepon. Indonesian Klepon is a simple sweet rice cake you'll want to whip up again and again. The stand out experience in klepon is the sweet burst of palm sugar stuffed in the middle of the klepon. Begin to shape klepon balls by taking heaped teaspoon of the dough and rolling it around into a ball (around. The small pieces of palm sugar initially are hard when inserted into glutinous rice dough and rolled into balls.
