Onde-onde — Central Java, Indonesia

Klepon (pronounced "klé-pone") is a traditional Javanese rice cake that is now popular throughout Indonesia and Malaysia. It is a boiled rice cake filled with liquid palm sugar (gula jawa) and coated with grated coconut. Klepon is green because it is flavored with a paste of pandan or dracaena leaves which are commonly used in Southeast Asian cuisines. In other regions of Indonesia such as Sulawesi, Sumatra and neighboring Malaysia, klepon are known as "onde-onde." However, in Java, the term onde-onde refers to Chinese jian dui, a rice cake ball covered with sesame seeds and filled with a sweet mung bean paste. Despite their popularity throughout Southeast Asia, klepon originate from Java. They are, like getuk and cenil, often consumed as snacks in the morning or afternoon. Certain precautions should be taken when eating a klepon: a freshly boiled cake usually contains scorching hot liquid palm sugar at its core. In the 1950s, klepon were brought by Indo immigrants to the Netherlands and are now easily found in Chinese or Indonesian restaurants in the Netherlands as well as in supermarkets throughout the country. --- Entry compiled automatically from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5262436) and Wikipedia. It will be replaced as soon as a contributor submits a cooked recipe.