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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

  • 500g Glutinous Rice (soaked for hours)

  • 8-10 Pandan Leaves (cut into 4-5cm pieces)

  • 1 ¼ cups Water

  • 100g Grated Coconut

  • ½ tsp Salt

  • Banana Leaves (cut into 30x25cm rectangles)

  • ½ cup of Gula Melaka

  • ½ cup Brown Sugar

  • 2 knotted pandan leaves

Steps

  1. Put pandan leaves and 1¼ cup water in a food processor and blend. Strain to get about 300ml pandan juice.

  2. Mix pandan juice and glutinous rice together in a bowl. Place in a steamer and steam until rice is cooked. 

  3. Halfway through steaming, remove lid and stir the rice.

  4. 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. 

  5. Place about 3-4 rolls into a pot of boiling water for 20 minutes or until the rice is fully cooked, whichever occurs first.

  6. Once done, drain in a colander and leave it aside to cool.

  7. Once it is completely cooled, open up the rolls and slice the glutinous rice with a wet knife.

  8. Mix the grated coconut with salt in a bowl

  9. Coat the glutinous rice with grated coconut and drizzle brown sugar syrup on it 

  10. 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.

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Done by:

Daryl Lee Yong Xian

Wee Tong Lin, Eva

Wong Kar Wai Naomi Abigail

Wong Yan Whye Beth

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