Pulut Inti Nyonya Recipe (Blue Glutinous Rice Cakes)
Nyonya Kuih

Pulut Inti, a blue glutinous rice cakes nyonya kuih for a straits-born Chinese wedding specialty.

Ingredients

main:
905 g/2 lb
20
300 ml/10 fl oz
255 g/8 oz
115 g/4 oz
455 g/1 lb
2
1/2 tsp
2

glutinous rice grains
bunga telang (special blue flowers) OR blue coloring
water for rice
grated coconut for, rice
gula melaka (palm sugar
grated coconut for filling
pandan leaves
corn flour
banana leaves
pinch of salt

Method:

1. Pick out the plain rice grains and other impurities which are often mixed with glutinous rice gains.

2. Mix special blue flower with 300 ml/10 fl oz water and squeeze until a sky blue shape is obtained. add more flowers if color is too light. Strain.

3. Mix rice and blue water, the level of which should be 2.5 cm (1 inch) above the surface of the rice. Add more water, if necessary. Soak overnight.

4. The rice should have absorbed the blue coloring. drain off water and steam rice grains until soft.

5. Prepare 225 g/8 oz grated coconut to obtain thick coconut milk. Add a pinch of salt and sprinkle over rice grains. Toss rice a little for even distribution. Steam rice again for another 10 minutes.

6. Prepare palm sugar.

7. Cook 455 g/1 lb grated coconut with palm sugar and pandan leaves. Stir constantly until coconut is soft.

8. Mix corn flour with a little water to form a thin paste and add to the cooked grated coconut. Discard pandan leaves and put aside to cool.

9. Remove centre stalk from banana leaves and boil until soft and olive-green in color. cut into rectangles of 20cm x 15 cm.

10. Place 3 tbsp of rice in the centre of 1 piece of banana rectangle. Shape and compact into a rectangular mound.

11. Roll cooked coconut into marble and press 1 piece lightly into the centre of the blue rice.

12. Wrap by folding up the 2 longer sides to overlap and folding back the 2 shorter sides, so that only the brown cooked coconut is visible through the crack in the banana leaf. Repeat until all-blue rice and cooked coconut are used up.