Cimpa

Not to be confused with CIMPA.

For the Romanian village, see Petrila.

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
2. ^ http://taksonomitumbuhan.blogspot.com/2010/05/singkut-curculigo.html
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

External links

• Cimpa, makanan khas Suku Karo (video)