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.
Serve at room temperature.
Makes 30 rice balls.
Ketupat (Compressed Rice Cakes)
These firm rice cakes are usually cooked in individual baskets of woven coconut leaves so that the rice swells until it fills the basket and becomes firmly compressed. Here is a simple and more practical way of producing similar results in Western kitchens.
Serves 6
Ingredients
500 g Short or medium grain rice
4 cups Water
Banana leaf or aluminium foil
Directions
Bring the water and rice to the boil.
Cover tightly with lid.
Turn heat very low and cook for 35-40 minutes until all water is absorbed.
Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Then press rice into a cake tin or pie plate to a depth of about 2.5 cm (1 inch).
Use a piece of washed and greased banana leaf or greased aluminum foil to cover the surface of the rice and put another plate on top.
Press down very firmly the plate.
Put a weight on top and leave at room temperature for a few s, until very firm.
Remove weight, plate and banana leaf and use a wet knife to cut rice into 5 cm squares.
Serve with spicy peanut sauce.
Sweet Dodo
Ingredients
(A)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar or palm sugar
1 cup water
1 pandan leaf
1 cinnamon bark (3cm length)
(B)
Combine and strain
2 cups glutinous rice flour
2 tbsp rice flour
4 cups thick coconut milk
200g durian pulp (optional)
Directions
COMBINE ingredients A and microwave cook on "High'' for five minutes.
Add ingredients B and stir well. Microwave on "Medium High'' for eight minutes.
Add durian and stir well. Microwave on "Medium High'' for four minutes. Stir and return. Repeat this step until mixture thickens.
Serve.
Kueh Bahulu
Kueh bahulu is a perennial favourite among Malaysians of all ages. It's soft and slightly dry texture goes very well with black coffee. Kueh bahulu comes in different shapes, but the popular ones are the goldfish and the button (see picture right).
Ingredients
3 egg yolks
4 egg whites
100gm sugar
Half teaspoon vanilla essence
100gm wheat flour
1 tablespoon tapioca flour
Quarter teaspoon baking powder
Directions
1. Sieve wheat and tapioca flour together with baking powder.
2. Whisk the eggs and sugar until stiff.
3. Add the vanilla essence.
4. Fold in 20grms of sifted flour with 100ml of egg batter. Preheat oven to 250 degrees centigrade. Lightly grease the mould (to prevent the bahulu from sticking) and spoon in batter. Do not fill to the top. Bake bahulu for about five minutes.
Alternatively, you can bake bahulu the traditional way – using charcoal fire. You have to place the hot coals on top of and under the mould.
Bahulu keeps quite well in an airtight container, but will harden with time.
Recipe from Kak Liza
Almond London Cookies
Ingredients
125g butter
75g icing sugar
1 egg yolk
Sift:
225g plain flour
1/2 tsp rice flour
300g whole almonds, toasted
450g chocolate, melted
Almond nibs, toasted
Small paper cases
Directions
Cream butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg yolk. Stir in sifted dry ingredients and blend well to form a dough.
Take a small piece of dough, the size of a marble, wrap it around the almond and shape into a ball.
Place dough on lightly greased trays. Bake in preheated oven at 175°C for 20-25 minutes or until cooked and golden. Remove and cool on wire racks.
Put cookies inside small paper cases and top with melted chocolate. Sprinkle with almond nibs.
Ping Pei Mooncake with Custard Filling
Ingredients
Unbaked pastry skin
150g icing sugar
180g kou fun (commercial cooked glutinous rice flour)
40g shortening
180g ice-cold water
A few drops peach colouring
1/8 tsp vanilla essence
Filling (1):
500g lotus paste
Custard filling (2):
30g plain flour (A)
45g corn flour (A)
20g custard powder (A)
10g milk powder (A)
150g castor sugar (A)
65g evaporated milk (B)
65g whipping cream (B)
80ml coconut milk (B)
1 egg (B)
20g butter
80g cream style sweet corn
Directions
Custard filling (2): Mix (A) together in a mixing bowl.
Add in (B) to mix. Strain mixture into a saucepan. Add in butter and cook over a very low heat, stirring with a hand-whisk until mixture turns creamy. Transfer to a tray and steam for 10–12 minutes.
Remove from the steamer, add in sweet corn and blend until fine in a food processor.
Divide into 40g portions. Wrap 1 portion lotus paste (60g) around the custard filling. Leave aside.
Pastry skin: Sift kou fun and icing sugar into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre and add shortening, essence and water. Quickly knead until dough is soft and smooth. Leave to rest for 20 minutes. Divide dough into 1/3 portion and add in peach colouring to blend. Leave the remaining portion plain.
Combine plain colour and coloured dough together and cut each into 60g. Flatten dough by rolling between two sheets of plastic wrap. Coat balls of filling with kou fun before wrapping.
Press into a wooden mooncake mould. Knock out to dislodge ping pei mooncake. Chill ping pei mooncake in the refrigerator.
Date and Oat Cookies
Ingredients
200g plain flour Sifted
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
75g almonds, coarsely chopped
30g quick cooking oats
140g butter
125g castor sugar
3/4 tsp vanilla essence
1 small egg
Topping
100g good quality plain chocolate, melted
Directions
Line baking trays with greased greaseproof paper. Put the oats in a food processor
and blend until fairly fine. Remove and set aside.
Beat butter, sugar and essence until light and creamy. Add the egg and continue to beat for 1 minute or until light and fluffy.
Sift in flour, baking powder and salt to mix. Briefly stir in the oats, chopped dates and almonds with a metal spoon.
Lightly form into balls Place them on prepared trays and bake in preheated oven at 170°C degrees C for 15–20 minutes or until golden brown.
Allow to cool for 1 minute on the trays before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
To melt the chocolate
Put chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Place the bowl over a saucepan of hot water and stir until chocolate melts. Put into a piping bag and pipe fine lines over the cookies.
STEAM grated coconut for 30 mins until soft then leave to cool. Mix (B) together in a mixing bowl. Stir in coconut and mix well. Add in (A) and stir well to mix. Lastly add in ko fun to combine the ingredients.
Divide mixture into equal portions of 110g each. Add a salted egg yolk in the centre of each portion. Wrap up with pastry dough. Seal up the edges. Place into a lightly dusted mooncake mould. Press slightly with the flat of your palm. Knock out the mooncake.
Bake mooncake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for 10 mins. Remove mooncake from the oven and leave aside for 2 mins. Brush with egg glaze and bake again for 8 mins or until golden brown.
To make egg glaze: Mix well before use.
Preparation of salted egg yolk: Wash the salted egg yolk and roll over in sesame oil. Steam for 2 minutes. Leave to cool.
Nutty Blossom Cookies
Occasion Hari Raya
Ingredients
125g butter
90g sugar
1 tbsp peanut butter
1 egg yolk
Sift:
200g plain flour
25g rice flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
100g peanuts, toasted, skinned and halved
1 egg white, lightly beaten
Directions
Grease baking trays with corn oil or melted butter. Preheat oven to 180°C.
Cream butter, sugar, egg yolk and peanut butter until pale. Add sifted ingredients and mix well into a dough.
Place dough in between plastic sheets and roll out to 3/4cm thickness. Cut out with a cookie cutter and place on prepared trays. Brush lightly with egg white.
Press peanuts on cookies and bake in preheated oven for 13 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Leave cookies on baking tray for one to two minutes, then transfer onto a wire rack to cool.
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