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Klepon
Green pandan rice-flour balls filled with palm sugar and rolled in grated coconut.
About Klepon
Klepon are Javanese glutinous-rice sweets filled with palm sugar and coated in coconut. This profile follows Indonesia's tourism ministry recipe, which colours the dough naturally with fresh pandan leaves and blends glutinous rice flour with a little rice flour.
Pandan gives the chewy dough a fresh vanilla-like aroma, while the palm-sugar centre melts into a deep caramel sweetness. Fresh coconut and a small amount of salt provide a soft, savoury contrast around each ball.
The sweets are small, round and naturally green, with white grated coconut clinging to their sticky surfaces. Their tender, chewy shell encloses a liquid palm-sugar centre that releases when bitten.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Klepon
Javanese Pandan Klepon with Palm-Sugar Centres.
- Glutinous rice flourChewy dough base
- Rice flourDough structure
- WaterPandan extraction and cooking liquid
- Fresh pandan leavesNatural green colour and aroma
- SaltFlavour balance
- Grated coconutSoft outer coating
- Palm sugarMolten caramel-like centre
- Granulated sugarLightly sweetened coconut coating
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Glutinous rice flour:
- Rice flour:
- Water:
- Fresh pandan leaves:
- Salt:
- Grated coconut:
- Palm sugar:
- Granulated sugar:
Origins & food traditions
Indonesia's Ministry of Tourism supplies the complete Javanese klepon recipe selected here and notes that the same sweet is called onde-onde in parts of Sumatra. Saveur independently corroborates the pandan glutinous-rice dough, palm-sugar filling and coconut coating under the regional name onde-onde.
Countries
- Indonesia
- SurinameCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Indonesian Cuisine
- Javanese Cuisine
- Javanese-Surinamese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.