Cimpa
Appearance
Cimpa are a variety of related cakes cooked by the Karo of North Sumatra, made of rice flour, coconut and palm sugar.
Four varieties of cimpa are produced:
- Cimpa tuang - made from rice flour, grated coconut, palm sugar, and water. The mixture is made into a batter, which is fried like a pancake[1]
- Cimpa unung-unung - made from purple glutinous rice flour, grated coconut, palm sugar, and water. The ingredients are mixed into a dough, and are placed into individual singkut-leaf wrappers (singkut is a plant from the genus curculigo in the family of hypoxidaceae[2]).
- Cimpa bohan - made using purple glutinous rice flour, palm sugar, and grated coconut, cooked inside bamboo
- Cimpa matah[3]
Cimpa are traditionally consumed on the sixth day of the Kerja Tahun festival.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ http://www.melikas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=416:cimpa-tuang&catid=72:kuliner&Itemid=416[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Taksonomi Tumbuhan Tingkat Tinggi: Singkut (Curculigo )" (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ http://repository.usu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/16948/4/Chapter%20II.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://repository.usu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/18047/3/Chapter%20III-IV.pdf [bare URL PDF]