Blue Glutinous Rice Cakes (Pulut Tai Tai)

This morning schedule was...busy, busy, busy! I went to my son future pre-school for parents' orientation and rushed to shop for groceries with a whining baby behind my car. Then I remember I had soaked the glutinous rice overnight and ... eventually made this rice cakes which calm my nerves.

I missed this asian dessert or snack very much. It was one of my comfort food when I was young. Still remember me and my siblings always standing at the doorway waiting for the Indian man who sell all sort of nyonya kuih in his little push-trolley to pass by my house. This Blue Glutinous Rice Cakes was one of my flavourite. I saw My Kitchen Snippets making this rice cakes and I told myself I want to eat the rice cakes too ^_^

I tried very hard to find the blue pea flowers, even when I went holiday in Cameron Highlands but no one really know this flower. I ended up using the sky blue colouring paste. I must say I like this sky blue.

Recipe adapted from My Kitchen Snippets

600g glutinous rice, wash and soak overnight

350ml coconut milk (I used 200ml)

150ml warm water

4 pandan leaves (I used more)

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp sugar (I used 1 tbsp)

12-15 blue pea flowers, soak in warm water, crush it to extract the blue colouring

Steps:

1. Wash rice and divide it into two equal portion. Soak one part in water and another part in the blue pea flowers juice. Leave them overnight. Soak the rice overnight will help in steaming process.

2. Drain both the rice, put them side by side on steaming tray. Warm the coconut milk, sugar and salt in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir and mix well.

3. Drizzle in about half of the coconut milk into the rice. Arrange the pandan leaves on top of the rice and steam the rice over rapid boiling water for 10 mins.

4. Remove the steaming tray, put the pandan leaves aside, fluff up and mix both rice together and drizzle the balance of the coconut milk, put pandan leaves back on top of the rice again and continue to steam for another 15 mins or until the rice is done.

5. Remove the steaming tray, discard pandan leaves, even out the rice with a spoon and using a banana leaf or aluminum foil press down the rice until well compact.

6. If possible put something heavy to weigh down the rice. Leave it cool.

7. Slice the rice cakes and serve it with coconut jam.

Steam the rice for about 25 mins. with pandan leaves on top.

Press down the rice with banana leaf.

Pulut Tai Tai which full of pandan and coconut flavour.

Want to try some?