Makan Story


LOPES
Made from glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaves, kuih* lopes is a sweet dessert coated in grated coconut and drizzled with gula melaka syrup.
* "kuih" is a bite-sized dessert or confection.
ingredients
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500g Glutinous Rice (soaked for hours)
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8-10 Pandan Leaves (cut into 4-5cm pieces)
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1 ¼ cups Water
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100g Grated Coconut
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½ tsp Salt
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Banana Leaves (cut into 30x25cm rectangles)
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½ cup of Gula Melaka
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½ cup Brown Sugar
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2 knotted pandan leaves
Steps
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Put pandan leaves and 1¼ cup water in a food processor and blend. Strain to get about 300ml pandan juice.
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Mix pandan juice and glutinous rice together in a bowl. Place in a steamer and steam until rice is cooked.
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Halfway through steaming, remove lid and stir the rice.
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Scoop 3-4 spoons of cooked glutinous rice onto each rectangle-shaped banana leaf and roll up into a cylinder. Tie up both ends with a piece of string, ensuring that the rice is pressed tightly together.
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Place about 3-4 rolls into a pot of boiling water for 20 minutes or until the rice is fully cooked, whichever occurs first.
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Once done, drain in a colander and leave it aside to cool.
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Once it is completely cooled, open up the rolls and slice the glutinous rice with a wet knife.
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Mix the grated coconut with salt in a bowl
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Coat the glutinous rice with grated coconut and drizzle brown sugar syrup on it
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For the syrup, put the grated palm and brown sugar and water into a small pot and boil it. Once dissolved, add the knotted pandan leaves and cook until the liquid turns viscous and syrup-like. Strain and put aside to cool before consumption.