Steamed Sticky Rice Cake with Coconut Filling

(Bánh Ít Nhân Dừa) - Steamed Sticky Rice Cake with Coconut Filling came from many amazing Vietnamese Cuisine is known belong to Southern Vietnamese people. With all simple ingredients are easy to find, they create a fantastic cake for our cuisine.

Wrapped in banana leaves, it will bring a different flavor which no one can make. Moreover, the filling is made from coconut meat extra with some peanut will the best gift for who you love. 

Ingredients

Making cover:

- 250g sticky rice flour

- Salt, sugar, hot water

Making filling:

- 110g icing sugar

- 150ml water

- 150g coconut meat (smashed)

- ½ bowl roasted peanut

- Salt, 1 tablespoon tapioca starch

- Banana leaves, steaming pot

Process

- Making cover: Mix sticky rice flour with ½ teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, pour slowly hot water and stir gently until this mixture becomes soft and smooth. Then, use your hands to knead in 5 minutes, cover it by nylon bag and wait for 1 hour.

- Roast peanut and smash quickly. Mix 110g sugar with 150ml water, bring to cook. 

- Cook until the sugar turns to caramel color and quickly add grinded coconut meat into pan, cook more 5 – 10 minutes, turn off the heat.  

- Add more roasted peanut, tapioca starch and a little salt, mix well and wait to reduce heat. Use hands to roll into circle shapes. 

- Clean well banana leaves, wait to get dry. Cut into rectangle shape (25 x 15cm) 

- Create banana leaves into funnel shapes. 

- Cut the flour into equal pieces, press gently, add coconut filling on the center, roll and cover well. 

- Put one by one ball in each banana leaf, fold the edges carefully. Continue until you finish all balls. 

- Bring to steam in 20 – 25 minutes. 

- Finally, you already finished Steamed Sticky Rice Cake with Coconut Filling. The flavor from banana leaves is absorbed into flour will create an interesting flavor which you ever tasted before.