60 g White glutinous rice (pulut)
(washed & drained)
7 c Water
2 Pandan leaves, knotted
1/2 c Sugar
Pinch of salt
1/2 T Tapioca flour or cornflour
Combined with 2 Tbs water to
Form a paste
1/2 c Thick cocnut milk
Pinch of salt
Directions
Put rice in pot with water and pandan leaves and bring to a boil. Reduce
heat to low, remove pandan leaves and simmer for 45 minutes until liquid
is thick. Add sugar and simmer for 10 minutes. Add salt and thickening.
Remove from heat.
Serve in small bowls topped with 1-2 tablespoons thick cocnut milk.
Coconut Sweet Potato Cake (Getuk Lindri)
Ingredients
2 lbs. cassava
200 gram granulated sugar
½ tsp. vanila
1 cup steamed fresh-grated coconut, mixed with 1 tsp. salt
100 cc water
food color
Directions
Put in sugar and vanila in a large stockpot with water
and bring it to a boil.
Steam cassava until soft. Peel cassava. Mash cassava
while still hot and pour the water mixture and food
color (what ever color you like) and blend well.
Use the equipment as shown on the left hand side to
mold the mixture. Then put them onto a serving
platter, and sprinkle with grated coconut.
Serve at room temperature, or refrigerate for an hour
and serve chilled.
Add enough water to the rice flour so that its weight increases
to 500 grams.
Add the all purpose flour to the rice flour mixture and stir well.
Add the fermented tapioca and sugar. Mix well. Add the warm
water and work the dough for about 10 minutes.-Add the
baking soda, the club soda and vanilla. Mix until everything is
evenly distributed. Finally, add the food coloring and blend
until smooth.
Warm the cup molds for about 5 minutes and fill it for about
4/5 full. Put in a steamer with the water already at a rolling
boil. Steam for about 20 minutes.
Rujak Medan (Spiced Fruit Salad)
Serves: 6
1 small cucumber, sliced thin
1 cup thinly sliced jicama
1 cup cubed firm ripe papaya
1 star apple (carambola), sliced
1 to 2 cups cubed fresh or canned ripe pineapple
1 firm green pear, cubed
1 firm tart apple, cubed
FOR THE SAUCE
3 tablespoons dry roasted peanuts
1 or 2 hot red chilies, sliced and seeded
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon tamarind paste, dissolved in 1/2 cup water
and strained
1 small green banana, sliced (optional)
Directions
Arrange the cucumber and any 3 or more of the fruits in
separate heaps on a serving platter.
In a food processor chop fine the peanuts, then blend in the
chilies, brown sugar, tamarind, liquid, and banana (if used) to
form a paste. It is traditional to serve the sauce and fruit
separately. Each diner may then select the fruit and dip it into
the thick sauce. The modern method is to toss the fruit and
sauce together and serve the salad at room temperature.
Multilayered Butter Cake (Lapis Legit)
Ingredients
570cc or 30 egg yolks
525-600 g butter,
whipped or melted
100 g flour, sifted
300 g granulated sugar
3 Tbs. sweetened
condensed milk
1 Tbs. special layer cake
extract (optional)
15 g powdered milk
½ tps. powdered vanilla extract
Directions
Place the egg yolks, granulated sugar and vanilla into
mixing bowl. Beat to very high soft peak.
Stir in the layer cake extract, flour and butter. The
batter should be very thick.
Place wax paper at the bottom of a 8x8x8 inch
buttered baking pan. Spread butter on top of the wax
paper as well.
Pour 3-4 Tbs. of batter into the wax covered pan and
bake in a preheated 350°F oven (gas oven is better
than electric oven) for 5 minutes.
Remove from oven and press the cake evenly and then
spread butter (not to much, just for flavoring) on cake
top. Pour another 3-4 Tbs. of batter and bake it again
for five minutes. Keep doing this step until the batter is
finished.
Serve when cool.
Makes 30 slices.
Pisang Goreng (Banana Fritters)
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients
4 Eggs
12 T Flour
4 Ripe bananas
Oil for deep frying
Cinnamon sugar
Directions
Slightly beat eggs and mix with flour and half cup water.
Mash bananas with fork and mix thoroughly with flour and egg mixture.
Deep-fry banana and flour mixture by the tablespoonful in hot oil until
golden brown.
Drain on absorbent paper and dust with cinnamon sugar.
Crisp Sweet Striped Cookies (Kuping Gajah)
Ingredients
500 gram wheat flour
150 gram granulated
sugar
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. vanilla
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 Tbs. cooking oil
100 cc water
½ Tbs. cocoa powder
800 cc oil for frying
Directions
Thoroughly mix sugar, salt and vanilla. Add the beaten
eggs and stir well. Add oil, stir once more, and then
divide in half.
Divide the flour in half as well. Take 1 Tbs of flour
from one part and add it to the other. Mix the flour
with each half of the sugar and egg mixture. Add
cocoa powder to the smaller mix. Add 50 cc of water
to each half. Knead until smooth and not sticky to the
touch. There will be two types of dough, white and
brown.
Separately, roll both pieces of dough out on a plastic
covered cutting board until they are about 1 mm thick.
Place the two together, then roll up. Wrap with plastic
and place in the refrigerator for approximately an hour
or until the dough hardens.
With a sharp knife, cut the dough vertically into flat
cylinders about 2 mm thick. Flatten once more with a
rolling pin. Fry in hot oil until crisp. Remove, drain.
Sticky Rice Cake in Brown Sugar Sauce (Biji Salak)
Ingredients
Rice Cakes
1 cup glutinous rice flour
½ cup tapioca starch
¾ cup water
¼ tsp. salt
Directions
To make Rice Cake:
Place rice flour and tapioca starch in a deep mixing
bowl and make a well in the center.
Add water and salt, mix well and knead dough until it
can be rolled and shaped. Dough should not be to dry.
Roll small rice cakes ½-inch in diameter. Cut diagonally
1-inch in length.
Bring 8 cups of water to a oil. Put it the rice cakes,
bring back to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain
and set the rice cakes aside.
Ingredients
Sauce
3 cups water
1 cup coconut milk
½ cup palm sugar syrup
1 pandan leaf
Pinch of salt
Directions
To make the sauce:
Combine water, coconut milk, palm sugar, pandan leaf,
and a pinch of salt in a small stockpot. Bring to a boil.
Add rice cakes and simmer for 20 minutes.
Cool and serve at room temperature, topped with a
tablespoon of fresh grated coconut.
Helpful hints: When preparing the rice cakes, use the
amount of water given in the recipe only as a guideline; the
quality of flour varies greatly and affects the amount of
liquid it absorbs. Add sufficient water to result in a soft,
smooth dough. If the rice cakes are dry when shaped, they
will be very tough after cooking.
Makes 3 servings.
Sticky Rice Rolls served with Palm Sugar Syrup (Lupis)
Ingredients
200 gr. glutinous rice flour
1 Tbs. slaked lime water
banana leaves
¼ grated coconut
pinch of salt
Palm sugar syrup
Directions
Soak the glutinuous rice in water for an hour and
drain. Add the slaked lime water to make the rice rolls
more solid, and stir.
Take a piece of banana leaf and fill it ¾ full with
glutinuous rice (just like making rice rolls). Secure the
ends and tie rolls with string so that they will not burst
during the boiling.
Put the rolls in a saucepan and cover with water. Boil
for 4 hours, drain and allow the rolls to cool. Add more
hot water during the cooking when necessary.
Serve the rolls by cutting it into 2 cm thick slices.
Sprinkle the grated coconut which a pinch of salt has
been added on top of the rolls and pour the palm sugar
syrup over them.
Stuffed Pancake Roll (Dadar Gulung)
Ingredients
Stuffing
2 cups fresh-grated coconut
10 Tbs. grated Java dark brown sugar
1 Tbs. granulated sugar
1 3-inch cinnamon stick, broken in half
¼ tsp. salt
Directions
Stuffing:
Mix the grated coconut, grated Java
dark brown sugar and granulated sugar,
cinnamon and ½ tsp.salt together.
Fry the mixture in a dry pan over
medium/low heat, constantly stirred for
approximately 5 minutes, or until the
mixture is dry.
Remove the cinnamon stick, and set it
aside.
Ingredients
Pancake
1 cup rice flour
½ cup cornstarch
1¾ cups coconut milk
½ tsp. salt
1 egg, beaten
3 drops green food coloring (optional)
Vegetable oil
Directions
Pancake:
Mix the rice flour, cornstarch, coconut
milk, ½ tsp. salt, green food coloring and
egg into a smooth batter.
Lightly oil an 8-inch frying pan, and pour
3 tablespoon of the batter into the pan.
Make sure the pan is equally covered
with the batter so it becomes a thin
layer pancake. Fry for one minute, turn
the pancake over and fry for another
minute. Remove and set aside.
Place 2 Tbs. of the coconut mixture on
the near edge of the pancake. Fold over
once, then tuck in the left and the right
sides and fold over once more. Press
gently to distribute the filling evenly.
Serve at room temperature.
Makes 10-12 servings.
Sweet Coconut Rice Balls (Klepon)
Ingredients
1½ cups glutinous powder
¾ cup lukewarm water
2-3 drops green food
coloring
8 tsp. grated Java dark
brown sugar
1 cup fresh-grated coconut, mixed with ½ tsp. salt
Directions
Mix the rice powder with the lukewarm water and
green food coloring into a firm but flexible dough.
Pull off one full teaspoon of the dough and shape it
into a ball with approximately 1-inch in diameter.
Push a finger into the center of the ball to make a hole,
and put in approximately ½ tsp. of the grated sugar.
Seal, and roll it back into the ball shape with the palms
of your hands. Prepare all the balls and set them aside.
Prepare a pot half filled with water and bring it to a
boil.
Drop the balls into the boiling water. Remove the balls
with a spoon once they float to the water surface and
then roll the balls in the grated coconut.
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