{"id":1809,"slug":"klepon-indonesian-sweet-boiled-rice-cake","title":"Klepon (Indonesian Sweet Boiled Rice Cake)","description":"Klepon (pronounced Klê-pon) is a traditional Indonesian rice cake, from Javanese cuisine. It is a boiled rice cake, stuffed with liquid gula jawa (palm sugar), and rolled in grated coconut. Klepon is green due to its pandan content.","ingredients_raw":["8–10 pandan leaves or pandan paste","300 g glutinous rice flour","30 g sago flour","150 g gula jawa (palm sugar)","300 g grated coconut","Water"],"ingredients_norm":["pandan leaves or pandan paste","glutinous rice flour","sago flour","gula jawa","coconut","water"],"steps":["If using whole pandan leaves, grind them to a smooth paste with a little water if necessary.","Combine the glutinous rice flour and sago flour until well-mixed. Stir in the pandan paste, then gradually mix in water until it forms a soft green dough.","Shape the dough into small balls about 2–3 cm in diameter. Make a small hole in the balls with your finger. Fill the hole with palm sugar, and seal the dough to enclose the sugar. Gently reshape it into a ball if necessary.","Boil a lot of water in a large pot. Put the little balls one by one in the boiling water. Cook for about 5 minutes until they rise to the surface.","Drain the dumplings.","Roll the dumplings in the shredded coconut, and serve."],"categories":["Dumpling recipes","Recipes using rice","Recipes using coconut","Indonesian recipes","Vegetarian recipes","Recipes using rice flour","Recipes using gula melaka"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Klepon_(Indonesian_Sweet_Boiled_Rice_Cake)","source_ref":"4541090","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Klepon_(Indonesian_Sweet_Boiled_Rice_Cake)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"92da716d0557d952ad9bb976a767ff3e5e5e87c55b00e82e74a3f7b04b5dc20c","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:06Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:06Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/klepon-indonesian-sweet-boiled-rice-cake"}