Arem-Arem a.k.a Lontong Isi

 

Arem-arem is another snack I love if I don't have enough time eating or lazy eating. It's quite heavy snack since it's made using rice and the filling is ground beef mixed with veggies also. You can look at the pics below how I made n prepared. It's a bit challenging tho. LOL

The Ingredients :

I use 2 cups of rice (steamer cup size)
0.5lb ground beef.
4 cloves of garlic.
1 shallot.
4 red chilies.
3 potatoes.
4 carrots.
1 tsp of salt.
1/2 tsp of sugar.
Lemongrass.
Half cup of coconut  milk.
1 1/2 cup of water.
2 Bay leaves.

Methods:

Prepare the seasoning, garlic, shallots, chilies. Ground them all into paste. Saute it with 1 tbsp of vegetable oil. Once it's ready, put the potatoes and carrots that you have peeled washed and cut into small cubes. Cut the Lemongrass and add it for fragrant. After they are tender, put the ground beef and mix them all. Add salt and sugar. Put aside.

Now for the rice, I have jasmine rice *u can use Japanese rice as well* wash it and put it in the steamer ( you can use pot ) mix with coconut milk, salt, bay leave, 1 tsp of corriander stir them (if you use pot) till all the water dry and the rice is tender and soft. After the rice is a bit cold, you can prepare the banana leave and do like the pics :-) Hope you can do it. After all done, wrapped neatly, steam them till you see the banana leaves changed the color, perhaps 15-20 minutes.

I made again using different filling

This time I didn't use beef but thin noodle. I seasoned it with 4 cloves of garlic, 1tsp salt, 1tsp pepper, 3 fresh red chili pepper, 3 green chili pepper that I ground it using magic bullet. 

Cooked the veggies till tender. Covered it so it's done faster. Meanwhile, soaked thin noodle with hot water from tap water is okay.

Once it's ready, mixed with the veggies, add chicken bouillon powder. 

Prepare the rice, coconut milk, salt, bay leaves,coriander,lemongrass. Keep stirring in low heat till no more water. This time I cooked in a pot. Half done. The rice isn't completely done since it will be steamed after you wrap it.