Kuih Kosui

Recipe for Kuih Kosui. Made with dry rice flour, palm sugar, pandan leaves and grated white coconut. Image Credit - suituapui.

Ingredients for Kuih Kosui:

• 120g. dry rice flour (tepung beras)
• 1/4 tsp salt

Syrup to be used as liquid:

• 2 tbsp chopped palm sugar (gula melaka)
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 140 ml. water
• 2 pandan leaves - knotted

For coating batter cake:

• 1/2 grated white coconut mixed with 1/4 salt or desiccated coconut without salt 

Utensil:

• Steaming tray 15cm. / 6" in diameter and 5cm. / 2" high or pyrex dish

Method:
To make Syrup:

1. Boil together palm sugar, water and pandan leaves.
2. Stir to dissolve sugar.
3. Remove pandan leaves. Cool syrup.

To make batter: 

• Follow basic recipe of Thin Batter Using Rice Flour. 
• If quantity of syrup is not enough, add water to make 560ml. batter.

To cook Palm Sugar Batter Cake:

1. Heat steaming tray in the steamer.
2. Add alkali water to batter and stir thoroughly.
3. Without removing steaming tray from steamer, pour batter into a heated tray. Steam for 20-30 mins. using low fire.
4. When batter is cooked, remove from the tray. Cool batter thoroughly before cutting into suitable sizes.
5. Toss in grated coconut and serve.

Note: Avoid condensed water from steamer cover from falling on to surface of batter by covering tray with grease proof paper or wiping steamer cover occasionally.

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