Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice
Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, kuih lopes | coconut glutinous rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Kuih Lopes

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kuih lopes | coconut glutinous rice using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice:
  1. Take 2 cups glutinous rice
  2. Make ready Food coloring (typically green)
  3. Make ready 2 cups coconut milk
  4. Take 1/2 cup water
  5. Make ready 1 tsp pandan flavoring
  6. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  7. Take 15 tbs muscovado sugar and 1 cup of water
  8. Get Grated coconut and some salt

Its Malaysian sweet dessert of glutinous rice coated with coconut shave and drizzle with thick brown sugar syrup when serve. Kuih Koci is a chewy dumpling wrapped in banana leaf, with sweet coconut filling. The 'skin' can come in green, purple or white, depending on the ingredients used. The Cantonese community here calls this as 鸡脚指 'gai geok jee' that means Chicken Claws.

Steps to make Kuih Lopes | Coconut Glutinous Rice:
  1. Wash the rice and soak it with food coloring for 3 hours
  2. This is how glutinous rice looks like if purchased in my country (Italy)
  3. Drain water from rice and place rice inside rice cooker along with coconut milk, water, salt and pandan flavor. Mix them well. If you don't have rice cooker, just cook following the instructions on the rice packaging. With rice cooker, it will take about 30 mins.
  4. This is the pandan flavoring I bought from Malaysia. There's no substitute for the flavor, but easy to find in any Asian market.
  5. This is the coconut powder I use to make 2 cups of coconut milk.
  6. While waiting for the rice to cook, prepare a cup of water to boil with muscovado sugar until it forms the density and sweetness you prefer. For this brand, I used 15 tablespoons. Let it cool.
  7. When rice is done, flatten it in a square pan lined with baking paper. Make sure to flatten it, and let it cool.
  8. Cut into the sizes you like and coat them with grated coconut and salt mixture. Serve with muscovado syrup that is prepared earlier.

Kuih are bite-sized snack or dessert foods commonly found in Southeast Asia. It is a fairly broad term which may include items that would be called cakes, cookies, dumplings, pudding, biscuits, or pastries in English and are usually made from rice or glutinous rice. A popular dessert or snack in Malaysia, Kuih Badak Berendam are glutinous rice balls filled with grated coconut and palm sugar mixed in a coconut and pandan… Steamed layer of coconuty glutinous rice with a layer of coconuty pandan custard. Yes we're going on full gear with the coconut milk on this one. Kuih lapis is a traditional Asian dessert popular in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.

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