BONTO#74 - Onigiri Rice Ball Seaweed with Salmon

BENTO# 73 - One Dish Rice

One dish rice recipe served with cucumber, kaya crackers, grapes & papaya pickles.

Homemade Kaya (Coconut Jam)

double boil method

after 5 minutes stirring

after 15 minutes stirring

after 30 minutes stirringafter 45 minutes stirring

after 60 minute stirring - done (thick jam)

After viewing frozen wings blog on homemade Kaya, I decided to try & my 1st homemade KAYA is successful!

Recipe adepted from from frozen wings follow double boiled method

My Ingredients
10 large eggs

500ml thick coconut milk

450gm sugar + 50g sugar for caramel

10 Pandan/screwpine leaves

Method:

1.Whisk the eggs and sugar till well. Add in the coconut milk and pandanus leaves.

2.Pour the coconut egg mixture into a aluminium pot. ( I use my kenwood mixer bowl). Take 50g sugar and cook in another small pot till they become caramel and brown, remove from fire and pour that into the coconut egg mixture.

3 Get ready another larger pot with boiling water. Put the aluminium pot fill with coconut egg mixture into the larger pot with boiling water ( double boil way) and stir . Keep stirring continuously until the mixture becomes thick ( it took me about 50 -60 minutes).

4.Remove it from pot , remove the pandan leaves and let cool down before storing them in
fridge.

BENTO#72 - ASSORTED SANDWICH

Cheese, Egg & strawberry jam sandwich served with french fries, papaya pickles (rose flower) & jelly candy

Coconut with Gula Malaka

Onde Onde (Sweet Potato with Coconut)

Ingredients - 250g sweet potato, 280g glutinuos rice flour, fresh grated coconut + pinch of salt, gula melaka (palm sugar) Break up the gula melaka into small pices

Peel cook (steamed for 10 min) and mash sweet potato

Mix well (sweet potato with glutinuos rice flour + 2 thsp water) and knead into a dough

Form dough into small balls. Make a hole in the centre of the ball and fill with a small pices of gula melaka. Roll again and make into small balls. Repeat till all dough finish.

Pepared a pot of water to boil and place the balls into the boiling water.Wait till they float to the surface of the water. ( means cook)

Remove and roll over the fresh grated coconut and mix well.

Best served warm.

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