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Friday, June 25, 2010

Sweet Potato Ku


These are before steaming


These are after steaming

I cannot be any happier that these 'ku' turned out exceptional beautiful.  The color was so  natural and sweet, of course it was - no food coloring added - the culprit was orange sweet potato/yam.  The filling is the usual mung bean - oh oh i have a story to relate about this filling, yes this particular bag of mung bean filling.  It was a leftover from one of our cooking sessions(a group of us ladies gather every sunday and we cook and bake). So, one sunday, I was the first to arrive at Nellie's and Nellie went through her freezer and pulled out this bag, she asked if i wanted to eat durian.  Of course i said yes, and we had to defrost it fast before the other ladies turn up, there won't be enough to go around. the durian looked so good, yellowish and looked seedless too.  So, into the microwave it went for defrosting.  After a minute of two, the bag came out of the microwave, Nellie and I laughed until tears came down and me with my incontinense, had to rush to the rest room - It was not durian but a bag of mung bean filling.  The moral of the story was, we were bad hearted, we did not want to share and we got none too. I have learned my lesson and am sharing the mung bean filling with those who turned up for dinner last weekend. Hope they liked these cute bite-size 'ku'.


Ingredients:

For the dough:

150 gm orange sweet potato/yam - mash immediately after steaming and keep it hot.
150 gm glutinious flour
50 ml thick coconut milk
50 ml hot boiling water
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp cooking oil

Filling:

Follow the recipe from Angkoo Ah Mah Chew




Method:

Mix the glutinous rice flour, salt and coconut milk to the hot mashed sweet potato.  Knead until dough does not stick to your hands - slightly on the wet side, it will dry out after resting.  If the dough is soft and pliable, do not add in the water.   Lastly add in oil and knead lightly till dough is shiny. Rest dough for at least 1 hr.

Scale the filling and dough according to the size of the mould.  Flatten it and wrap in a filling.  Seal and shape into a round/  Dust the mould with a little glutinious rice flour.  Press firmly into the mould  Knock and dislodge from mould.  Place on oiled banana leaf.  Continue process with the rest of the dough pieces.

Use tap water and wash off excess glutinious rice flour from the surface.  Do it quickly and lightly before steaming the 'ku' over LOW heat for 5 - 10 minutes. Remove the steamer lid after 5 minutes to lower the heat as the pattern will not be as sharp if the heat is too high.  Remove from steamer and brush with oil for a  shiny surface.


 Serves

11 comments:

Tricia said...

Lily, this is one of my favorite Kuih from M'sia! Yours looks absolutely beautiful and delicious! I hope I will gather enough courage one day to make these on my own!

Emily said...

Oh! these looks lovely! and thanks for sharing, may you have enough of everything you desires this weekend!

Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...

next time I also want to try orange sweet potato ku.

Fool-Bright said...

Auntie Lily,

Those 'ku' looks beautiful and delicious! I love your 'durian-turned-mung bean' story! Made me laugh and made my day...

Have a great weekend!

-Lai Kuan

Unknown said...

Hi Lily...ur angku looks so pretty and yummy :) I gonna try tis out soon and thks for sharing!!!

kitchen flavours said...

Your sweet potato ku looks really good and delicious. Wish I could have one now!

Pete said...

Wow, the colour turns out nice after steaming!

Chef Chong's Leftover Makeovers said...

Lily, I loved this Ong Ku, not Ang ku. Hahahahha. Am going to make it these days, also some of the Msian desserts you have in this blog.

Rebecca Lee said...

Lily, what a great idea to use orange sweet potato as color, the kuih looked so good and delicious. Must try it as my recipe used only 100 gm of sweet potato with 500 gm pulut flour. I oiled the dough when shaping it so it will not stick to fingers and mould. Thanks for sharing this marvelous recipe Lily .

Doris said...

Hi, Lily

I jst wan to find out, if i'm using parchment paper to line the angku..

Do i need to grease the parchment paper?

Pls advice...

TQ..

Doris

Unknown said...

doris

greasing will prevent the kuih sticking. Do not use WAX PAPER

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