Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kolak biji salak - sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Kolak Biji Salak (Sweet Potato Balls in Palm Sugar and Coconut Milk Sauce) is a popular Indonesian dessert. My mom used to make it when I was growing up and I sometimes helped her shaping the dough into balls. It can be served warm or cold.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kolak biji salak - sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Kolak Biji Salak - Sweet potato balls in palm sugar syrup and coconut milk:
- Get 2 sweet potatoes (peeled)
- Get 100 gram tapioca starch/flour more or less depending on the water content in your sweet potatoes
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Get syrup
- Prepare 1000 ml water
- Prepare 1 pandas leaves (knotted)
- Prepare 200 gr palm sugar
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 tablespoon tapioca flour + 1tablespoon water
- Take coconut sauce
- Prepare 1 can coconut milk
- Take 1 pandas leaves (knotted)
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
Some popular ones are Kolak Pisang (Pisang means banana), Kolak Ubi (Ubi means sweet potato), and Kolak Biji Salak which is sweet potato balls. Biji Salak / Bubur Candil Recipe. Sweet Potato Balls in Palm Sugar Syrup and Coconut Milk Sauce. Salak is the name of a fruit and biji means seed.
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!
The sweet potato balls resemble salak seed or fruit seed, so I guess that was how this dish got its name. This sweet potato balls dish is eaten with a sweet syrup made from coconut palm sugar (or Javanese red sugar) and then we also add coconut milk (served separately) to balance all the sweetness. 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. 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.
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