How To Make Balinese Klepon Cake

 

Klepon is a kind of traditional food or traditional Indonesian cake which belong to a group snack market. This food made out from glutinous rice flour shaped like small balls and filled with brown sugar and boil in boiling water. Klepon ripe and then rolled in grated coconut that is attached above. Klepon usually placed in containers made from banana leaves

Ingredient:

• 300 gram glutinous rice flour
• 30 grams sagoo flour
• 8-10 pandan leaves or pandan paste
• 150 gram gula jawa (palm sugar)
• 300 gram grated coconut
• water

 How to make?

1. Grind pandan leaves finely, mix with water or just use pandan paste. Grate the coconut, put aside.
2. Mix Glutinous Rice Flour and Sagoo Flour until well mixed, add pandan paste and a little water. Mix well with hand until it formed a soft green dough. make Make sure that the dough is not to hard, if necessary add a bit more of water.
3. Form a little balls shape with 2-3 cm diameter, push it with your finger to make a small hole, fill it with palm sugar, close it again and form a ball.
4. Boil a lot of water in a big stock pot. Put the little balls one by one in the boiling water. Cook for about 5 minutes until they emerge on the surface of the boiling water. Take them out and drain.
5. Sprinkle or rolled the balls on shredded coconut