Shredded Chicken and Glutinous Rice Dumplings

Lemper is a snack you can eat on the go. Usually wrapped in banana leaves, it is finger food. Julia would pack them on road trips, and we’d have them for a light lunch or a snack along the way. While it is traditional to steam the lemper in banana leaves, Julia sometimes wraps them in plastic wrap, and I like to wrap them in parchment. Once the layers are put together, wrapping and steaming the lemper isn’t necessary, but the steaming does help keep them to