Kueh Salat (Kuih Seri Muka) - Shiokman Recipes 29/5/20, 23:10

Peranakan (Nyonya) Kueh Salat

Course: Snack
Cuisine: Peranakan
Author: Shiokman Eddie

Ingredients
BOTTOM LAYER
400 g glutinous rice
40-50 blue pea flowers bunga telang (soak in 100 ml water)
250 ml santan (150 ml thick coconut milk with 100 ml water)
1 tsp salt
Pandan leaves optional
TOP LAYER
3 large eggs 70 g
150 g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
400 ml thin santan (200 ml thick coconut milk with 200 ml water)
100 ml pandan water (from 30 pandan leaves with 100 ml water)
90 g plain flour
45 g tapioca flour

Instructions
BOTTOM LAYER
1. Wash glutinous rice to remove excess starch and soak for at least 2 hrs
2. Wash about 40-50 dried flowers and boil in 100 ml of water
3. After water has turned dark blue, let it stand for an hour before squeezing out 100 ml dark blue water
4. Add 100 ml water to 150 ml thick coconut milk to make 250 ml thin santan
5. Add 1 tsp salt to thin santan and mix well
6. Drain out the water from the soaked glutinous rice
7. Lightly spray a 24 cm round pan with oil
8. Transfer drained glutinous rice into pan
9. Arrange some pandan leaves (optional)
10. Pour the thin santan (coconut milk) all over
11. Ensure the rice is thoroughly covered by the thin santan
12. Place pan of rice in a steamer and steam for 20 mins.
13. Thereafter, remove pandan leaves
14. Fluff up the rice; and pour blue pea flower water (in patches) over it
15. Fluff up the rice again and steam for another 10 mins
16. Remove pan from steamer and press the rice flat until it is well compressed.
17. Set it aside
TOP LAYER
1. Cut 30 pandan leaves into small pieces and blend in water.
2. Sieve out pandan juice and set it aside.
3. When measuring 100 ml of pandan juice, pour off diluted layer and use the thicker pandan paste/juice
to obtain darker green colour for the kueh.
4. If possible, this step should be done 1 or 2 days earlier.
5. Add 1/4 tsp salt to 400 ml thin santan (i.e. 200 ml thick coconut milk with 200 ml water)
6. Add 150 g sugar to 3 Large eggs and mix well
7. Add 400 ml thin santan and mix well
8. Add 100 ml pandan juice a little at a time (checking colour) and mix well
9. Sieve 90 g plain flour and 45 g tapioca flour into pandan mixture and mix well
10. Sieve out the mixture to ensure smooth consistency
11. Stir sieved mixture over low heat until it thickens slightly

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12. Once mixture sticks to back of spoon, it’s ready

FINAL STEPS
1. Heat up the compressed glutinous rice in the steamer
2. Slowly pour the pandan mixture over it
3. Wrap steamer lid with cloth and leave the lid slightly ajar by placing a chopstick in between lid and
steamer (to achieve a smooth surface for the kueh)
4. Steam over medium heat for 30 to 45 mins
5. The kueh is ready once top layer firms up; and skewer inserted into centre of top layer comes out clean
6. Remove pan from steamer and let it cool for at least 4 hrs before cutting
7. Use a plastic scraper or plastic knife to get a smooth cut

Recipe Notes
1. Kueh Salat is best eaten within 1 or 2 days.
2. If kept in fridge, steam kueh to soften it before eating.

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