Friday, October 18, 2013

Kuih Buah Melaka

Dessert day everyone! No ordinary dessert, but our Malaysian dessert (Bingka Pisang), or sweet treat, or sugar crush and rush kuih-muih or Malaysian delicacy, the best among the rest. Absolutely! Without a doubt compared to the rest of the desserts from other parts of the world and we must really, seriously and sincerely look up at our Malaysian kuih-muih because they can be made from our affordable and forever available Malaysian ingredients instead of paying more for imported ingredients. Remember, can you still recall the few Malaysians desserts I have already shared with all of you (Bubur Cha Cha, Honeydrew Sago, Bubur Kacang Hijau & Malaysian Panna Cotta)? And today, its another of our famed kuih-muih. Kuih Buah Melaka, aka ondeh ondeh, or onde onde or as the Indonesians call it, Klepon. Ingredients for Kuih Buah Melaka? Glutinous rice flour, Gula Melaka, fresh grated coconut, a tiny bit of all purpose flour and of course, our Malaysian kuih muih can't be completed without pandan leaves/screwpine leaves (Sago Gula Melaka & Pandan Coconut Milk Jelly). Kuih Buah Melaka? The pop and burst of Gula Melaka/palm sugar once you bite into these sticky and coated with fresh coconut balls.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups glutinous flour
1 tbsp all purpose flour
6-7 pandan leaves - blend with 3/4 cup of water to extract juice
A pinch of salt
100g palm sugar - chop into small pieces
1/2 cup fresh grated coconut

Method
Combine flour, both types pandan juice and salt.
Knead lightly to a dough 
(Add water if needed)
Pinch a small piece of the dough and roll into a ball. 
Flatten the center and press in a piece of palm sugar inside.
Roll again and make sure the dough totally covers palm sugar.
(Don't over stuff with palm sugar or it will burst when cooking)
Drop balls into a pot of boiling water.
When the balls starts float to the surface, remove and drain off excess water, prior to rolling over coconut.  


31 comments:

  1. Wow looks mouth watering and easy to make too :)

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  2. These look amazing Nava. Love the pandan color

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  3. I hv tasted it but never tried at home.. Looks so yummy and beautifully presented

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  4. I love to eat this. Don't like buy. Rather make it coz in the shop they used brown sugar instead of palm sugar. Too sweet

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  5. This is such a innovative recipe.. :)
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  6. I've never heard of this before Nava.. Lovely ondeh ondeh, will try these myself too.. Thanks for sharing dear :-)

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  7. Want to gobble all of them. So delicious they look.

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  8. These lovely green color balls look awesome dear... Pass one to me :)

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  9. love the natural color from the leaves, I am very against using any colors in food, that gives my food pictures not that great, but hey still its natural. have to try this for sure.

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  10. I am sure it is super sweet.

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  11. I love anything with coconut .This dish is fantabulous ,mouth watering what else i cant find words to appreciate.Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all.

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  12. Nava, this is my favorite, i like to eat this very much, like the palm sugar melt in my mouth when i bite this.

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  13. I love onde onde. Biting into the sweet coconut and finding that juicy middle is fantastic! I was going to post this on my blog on day too :)

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  14. looking lovely and delicious

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  15. These look so delicious! Love the colour from the pandan leaves...I can imagine the taste! Beautiful shots as well!

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  16. Wow this looks so delicious and really new to me. Will surely try this cute little balls...

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  17. Very interesting, I've never worked with glutonous rice before. Love how it looks and the coconut flakes must be so good with it.
    Sound great. We have a similar dish too, but stuffed with lentils and brown sugar, love it.

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  18. OMG lovely presentation and yummy looking sweet.

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  19. The name of the dish itself is new to me.. Love the sweets prepared with coconut..It is more appealing..

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  20. Very Nice, Looking Yummy. . . . A G+ for ur Post and Have a Nice Day. . . :)

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  21. interesting recipe and looks delicious Nava...

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  22. oh I love this!!! Its very addictive! I can pop so many of it in one go!

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  23. love this cute lovely balls...very new recipe to me..will try it sometimes...

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  24. natural color by the pandan leaves makes it so very appealing.. A lovely recipe!

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  25. Lovely presentation,never heared about this,but looks so tempting,I should first figure out what is pandan leaves :)

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  26. I love this onde-onde, i actually had made it once and it preety damn hillarious process..
    my mistake is stuffed all the balls firs and let it sit for a while before drop it into the boiling water...
    the palm sugr split all over...hahaha
    but it still taste nice, i guess it's better be dropped the stuffed glutinous rice ball right after you stufing it

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  27. Palm sugar sweets are always wonderful. And this one sounds and looks amazing. I've not heard of this before but I'm instantly drawn to the lovely green colour.

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  28. Oh how i love the name :) This malaysian dessert look truly awesome Nava... :)

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