Baye Baye

Baye Baye

Visayan sweet delicacy made from pounded rice flakes, sugar, young coconut meat and juice. In every city Baye Baye  comes in many shapes, as well as in color and texture.

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups pounded rice flakes
• 1 Cup young coconut water
• 1/2 Cup sugar
• 1 1/2 Cups young coconut

Directions:

• Toast the pounded rice flakes in a pan over medium heat.
• Stirring constantly until pounded rice flakes pops and crunchy.
• Grind toasted rice flakes in a food processor until it becomes powder.
• In a separate bowl, mix ground tasted rice flakes, young coconut water and sugar.
• Mix well before adding the grated young coconut meat.
• Keep stirring all the ingredients are properly combined.
• Grease the wrapper with coconut oil and scoop a heaping tablespoon of mixture in the center.
• Roll into a tuber by hands, wrap and chill before serving.

Cooking Tips:

• Banana leaves and wax paper are the substitute for wrapper.
• Use brown sugar for white toasted rice flakes for rich color and texture.

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Kalamay Lansong

Kalamay Lansong

A simple and easy to make sweet sticky rice cake dessert. Made of glutinous rice cake flour and sugar, steamed and serve with coconut curd toppings.

Ingredients:

• 5 Cups glutinous rice flour
• 1 1/2 Cups sugar
• 2 1/2 Cups coconut milk
• 2 Cans coconut milk for curds

Directions:

Sticky Rice Cake

• Mix glutinous rice flour and sugar together until well blended.
• Pour coconut milk and stir thoroughly until smooth.
• Pass banana leaves on fire and brush with coconut oil.
• Line the prepared pan with banana leaves.
• Pour the flour mixture and steam for 25 minutes in medium heat.

Coconut Curd

• Bring coconut milk to a boil in a sauce pan and simmer gently over low heat.
• When oil starts to separate and solids begin to form.
• Regularly stir and scrape sides and bottom of pan to prevent from burning.
• Continue to cook and stir until curds turn golden brown.
• Drain curds from the oil and set aside.

Serving

• Transfer the sticky rice cake in a large serving plate.
• Top with coconut curd and serve with hot or cold beverages.

Cooking Tips:

1. For better and smooth cake result, cover the baking pan with cheese cloth.
2. Cooking without banana leaves, brush the pan with coconut oil.

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