Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, biko (filipino rice cake). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Biko (pronounced bee-koh), a rice cake, is a native Filipino delicacy or 'kakanin' where glutinous rice is cooked with coconut milk and brown sugar then topped Latik. The latik can be either in curd form or syrup. Biko is a Filipino dessert made with glutinous rice, coconut milk, and brown sugar.
Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have biko (filipino rice cake) using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Biko (Filipino Rice Cake):
- Get 2 cups glutinous rice
- Get 4 cups coconut milk (kakang gata/ 2 cans of coconut milk will do 400 ml each)
- Get 2 cups water
- Get 1 cup brown sugar
- Get 6 drops ube essence (optional)
- Get 1 tbsp vegetable oil
There are many variations on biko, but this biko recipe will give you a sweet dark brown-sugared sticky rice cake topped with a caramelized coconut sauce and latik (crispy coconut curds). Each decadent bite of this traditionally Filipino dessert is filled with flavors of palm sugar, dark brown sugar, and rich coconut. Glutinous rice vs. jasmine rice Like Vietnamese Chè…Continue Reading→ Biko is a sweet Filipino sticky rice cake. It is made of glutinous rice, coconut milk, coconut cream, and brown sugar, topped with caramelized coconut cream.
Instructions to make Biko (Filipino Rice Cake):
- Wash glutinous rice in a pot or rice cooker. Drain excess water. Add 2 cups of water. Cook glutinous rice like you would with regular white rice.
- On a pan, pour 2 cups of coconut milk and sugar. Set to medium heat and bring to a boil.
- Add 6 drops of ube essence to mixture (optional).
- Add rice to the mixture. Constant mixing (folding motion) is necessary to prevent crusting at the bottom of the pan.
- Keep mixing till sticky enough that it looks like a dough.
- Put biko in a container and push with a spatula to even out surface.
- Cooking latik: In a separate pan, pour 1 can/2 cups of coconut milk. Bring to boil and set to high heat. Keep stirring until paste-like consistency is observed then add vegetable oil to aid in toasting the coconut milk.
- Once browned remove from heat, and drain and squeeze excess oil with a paper towel.
- Spread latik over biko. Serve and enjoy.
It is often served during fiestas, birthdays, Christmas, New Year and any other special events. Every Filipino enjoys biko because it is delicious and very affordable to make and not to. Filipino Biko Recipe, consists of malagkit (glutinous) rice, coconut milk, sugar, and topped with 'latik'. Biko is a rice cake with caramel topping or latik and here is the recipe for Biko. Biko is usually served during birthday parties, fiestas, Christmas, New Year and other celebrated events in Philippines.
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