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Great recipe for Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk. This Indonesian dessert made of sweet potato balls served in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk is popular treats especially during Ramadhan for breaking the fasting. Kolak Biji Salak (Sweet Potato Balls in Palm Sugar and Coconut Milk Sauce) is a popular Indonesian dessert.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kolak biji salak - sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk:
- Make ready 2 sweet potatoes (peeled)
- Prepare 100 gram tapioca starch/flour more or less depending on the water content in your sweet potatoes
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Take syrup
- Get 1000 ml water
- Prepare 1 pandas leaves (knotted)
- Take 200 gr palm sugar
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 tablespoon tapioca flour + 1tablespoon water
- Get coconut sauce
- Take 1 can coconut milk
- Get 1 pandas leaves (knotted)
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk. This Indonesian dessert made of sweet potato balls served in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk is popular treats especially during Ramadhan for breaking the fasting. Literally, 'biji salak' means 'salak seed' (biji = seed). Salak (Salacca zalacca) itself—known as 'snake fruit' in English—is a species of palm tree (family Arecaceae) native to Java and Sumatra.
Instructions to make Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk:
- Cut the sweet potatoes into large cubes and place in steamer and steam about 10 minutes. Mashed the sweet potatoes while still warm until smooth.
- While the sweet potatoes are steaming, prepare a medium pot and pour 1000 ml of water. Bring to boil and then add the palm sugar, pinch of salt and pandan leaves. Lower the heat to let it gently simmer for 15 minutes and keep it warm on very low heat while you are preparing the rest.
- In another small saucepan, add coconut milk and salt and pandan leaves and let it heat on low heat for about 15 minutes. Do not boil the coconut milk. Turn of the heat and set aside.
- Sprinkle in the salt and tapioca flour and knead the dough with your hand until you can get a smooth dough. If it feels a bit dry, add a bit water. Likewise if it’s too wet, add a bit more tapioca flour.
- Roll the dough into an circle shape.
- When ready to serve, place the sweet potatoes in the syrup. Bring it to a gentle boil. Give the tapioca + water mixture a stir and pour it in and continue to stir. The syrup will thicken and get shiny and start to bubble. Remove from the heat.
- SERVING : This dessert can be served warm, room temperature or cold. Ladle some sweet potatoes balls along with the thickened syrup into a bowl and drizzle with generous amount of coconut milk sauce and bon appetite!
In real, kolak biji salak is made from mashed sweet potato tapioca flour which is shaped into small balls in (usually) palm sugar and coconut milk sauce. The name is widely known as 'Kolak Biji Salak' which I assume based on the resemblance from the shape of the little balls Salak is one popular tropical fruit 'Salacca' and Biji is 'Seed' Kolak is a term for desserts using sauce made of mainly coconut milk & palm sugar Kolak (or kolek) is an Indonesian dessert based on palm sugar or coconut sugar, coconut milk, and pandanus leaf (P. amaryllifolius). A variation in which banana is added, is called kolak pisang or banana kolak. Other variations may add ingredients such as pumpkins, sweet potatoes, jackfruit, plantains, cassava, rice balls, and tapioca pearls. It is usually served warm or at room temperature.
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