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Klepon

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Green rice-cake balls that burst with liquid palm sugar.

Klepon are small balls of glutinous rice flour coloured green with pandan leaf, filled with palm sugar and boiled, then rolled in grated coconut.

Bite carefully — the melted palm sugar inside bursts out. Klepon are a classic jajan pasar, the traditional sweets sold at morning markets.

Cultural context

One of the jajan pasar — the sweets of the traditional morning market.

Key ingredients

  • Glutinous rice flour
  • Pandan
  • Palm sugar
  • Grated coconut

Good to know

  • Pandan and glutinous rice
  • Liquid palm-sugar centre
  • Traditional market sweet

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