Sticky Rice in the City: An Indonesian Lemper Cooking Workshop
Join Dena Igusti, Laurency Igusti, and Merlah Fransisca for a cooking workshop to learn how to make lemper, a sticky rice snack wrapped in banana leaf. While cooking, we will touch on the culinary history of Indonesian food in New York City.
Ingredients for (about) 20 lempers
- 500 grams sticky rice (glutinous – Royal Thai sticky rice)
- 550 ml coconut milk
- 2 pandan leaves
- 8 jeruk purut leaves (kaffir lime)
- 4 salam leaves
- 1 lemongrass
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Filling Ingredients:
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 block of firm tofu
- 1 cup portobello mushrooms
- Scallions
- Garlic
- Onion
- 2 Tbsp salt
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp oyster sauce (optional)
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Brooklyn Public Library’s Folk Arts program is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
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11/18/2023 02:00 pm
11/18/2023 03:30 pm
America/New_York
Sticky Rice in the City: An Indonesian Lemper Cooking Workshop
<p>Join Dena Igusti, Laurency Igusti, and Merlah Fransisca for a cooking workshop to learn how to make lemper, a sticky rice snack wrapped in banana leaf. While cooking, we will touch on the culinary history of Indonesian food in New York City.</p>
<p><strong>Ingredients for (about) 20 lempers</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>500 grams sticky rice (glutinous – Royal Thai sticky rice)</li>
<li>550 ml coconut milk</li>
<li>2 pandan leaves</li>
<li>8 jeruk purut leaves (kaffir lime)</li>
<li>4 salam leaves</li>
<li>1 lemongrass</li>
<li>1/2 teaspoon salt</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Filling Ingredients:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>1/2 teaspoon salt</li>
<li>1 block of firm tofu</li>
<li>1 cup portobello mushrooms</li>
<li>Scallions</li>
<li>Garlic</li>
<li>Onion</li>
<li>2 Tbsp salt</li>
<li>2 Tbsp soy sauce</li>
<li>2 Tbsp oyster sauce (optional)</li>
</ul>
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