Cimpa

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

  1. ↑ http://www.melikas.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=416:cimpa-tuang&catid=72:kuliner&Itemid=416%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
  3. ↑ http://repository.usu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/16948/4/Chapter%20II.pdf
  4. ↑ http://repository.usu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/18047/3/Chapter%20III-IV.pdf
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