Bubur merah putih for Aliah's birthday

Cake and birthday is too synonymous. The tradition in our family is always bubur merah putih that signifies the life, the bitterness & sweetness in life, the positive & negative things in life, the black & white journey of life ... 

Simple ingredients but it requires a lot of patience to prepare it. You only need the normal rice grain, glutinous/sticky rice grain, coconut milk, water, palm sugar, granulated sugar, salt & to add flavour and smell pandan leaves (optional). the ratio for the rice is 1:3 (normal rice:glutinous rice). Cook the rice like you want to make rice porridge or congee. When it is done halfway and you are getting a smooth texture, add in the coconut milk, this is the time when you'll get blasted but the bubble fromn the boiling porridge, divide the porridge into two parts (like 1:2 ratio). The 1 ratio just leave it plain like that (the white part), cook until smooth. Add the palm sugar to the 2 ratio mix and cook until smooth.

Done. Serve it like in the above photos.

It has been 4 years...Need to start posting recipes more and more

My last post was in august 2011. Well, time flies.. so many things had happened. Okay, let's get started.

The craving for rempeyek, the traditional jawa kuih urged me to try and cook it myself. Living abroad..what do you expect? You cannot get it from the pasar tani or order it from wak jenab anymore. Luckily, everytime arwah wak siah make rempeyek for eid, I was there helping her or more accurately disturbing her..hahaha.. well, just recalled whatever tips she gave and as usual, the campak2 and agak2 recipe always do wonder to me...

here it goes...

Rempeyek (kacang tanah)..next on the list will be tumpi..

3/4 packet of rice flour  (this is what I found in the kitchen cabinet)
Kacang tanah (ground nuts) & some dried anchovies
1 egg
1 tin of coconut milk
2 tbsp garlic & ginger paste
2 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp cumin powder
2 tsp salt

sift the flour, beat the egg & add in the garlic & ginger paste,
combine all the dry ingredients
mixed everything til you get the batter

don't worry if you don't have the commercial mould of the rempeyek as the original rempeyek is not cook using that round mould.
take a spoonful of the batter, add the nuts (and some anchovies if you like it).. and slide the batter at the side of your deep fried pan... splash some hot oil at the side of the batter and the batter will glide down into the pan.. fry it til brown ...