Nagasari

My favourite traditional steamed banana cake. It can go to every wheather, every season, every mood I have.. it is simply yummy!! and the preparation is not difficult. Try it!!





Ingredients
- 150 gr of rice flour
- 750 ml of coconut milk
- 2 pcs of pandan leaves
- 200 gr of sugar
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- Ripe plantains, cut thinly about 1/2 cm lengthwise
- Banana leaves for wrapping

Direction
Dilute the rice flour with 1/3 of coconut milk till you get a fine mixture. Add in the rest of the coconut milk, pandan leaves, salt and sugar and bring it to boil with small flame. Keep stirring until the sugar melted and the pandan leaves released the fragrance. The mixture will get thickened. Take it off from the stove and prepare the banana leaves.

Lay a piece of banana leaf (about 10cm wide), clean it first before you use it, and spread 1 spoon of the cooked mixture in the middle of the wrapping leave, put the banana slice in the middle, and cover it with the cooked mixture again. Wrap nicely and steam it about 20 minutes. Let it cool before serve.

Bika Ambon

They call it Bika Ambon, though it doesnt come originally from Ambon but Medan. A very special cake, using tapioca flour and a very small quantity of normal flour . It tastes different, but very good.. ^-^

See the texture? this what makes it different than any other cake.. ;-)

(recipe copied from http://www.dekap.com/)

This is what you need:

15 gr instant yeast
20 gr sugar
15 gr flour
75 ml water

Mix all those ingredients above well, and leave it for 25 minutes.

15 citrus leaves
350 ml coconut milk
a pinch of salt

Bring those three ingredients in a pan and let it boil.

300 gr sugar
8 yolk
200 gr tapioca flour
1/2 tsp vanillie

Beat the yolk and the sugar in a bowl, until smooth, then add the tapioca flour, stir it gently. Put in the vanillie and the coconut milk mix. Take out the leaves first. Then leave it for about 2-3 hours.

When all is done, heat up the oven, put the bake form inside. When the form is warm, brush first with some vegetable oil, then pour in the cake mix. Bake for a good 20 minutes.

Martabak

Most populer filled-cake in Indonesia.... ;-)

This one traditional dessert is very easy to find in Indonesia. Especially in Jakarta. In every corner of the street, especially a crowded one, you would find a food seller of this one dessert.

Making this martabak is not that difficult, and the stuff you would find easy everywhere.. so jetzt geht´s los...

What you need:

Bowl A:

• 250 gr flour
• 50 gr sugar (normal sugar, the fine crystal one is even better!)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 350 ml water
• 1 tsp instant yeast

all those above, except the instant yeast, beat all together in a bowl till smooth. When done, add in the instant yeast and stir. Leave it for about 2 hours, till the dough rises up.

Bowl B:

• 4 eggs
• 60 gr sugar
• 1/4 baking soda

Beat all those in a bowl, doesnt need to beat too long, just to get all mixed well. Then mix bowl A and bowl B together.

One by one, put some portion in a pan, like you do a pancake. This one mixture will give about 4 portions of pancake.

Now for the filling you would need:

• salty margarine (we normally use BlueBand), sweetened condensed milk, some grated cheddar cheese

When one cake is done, brush the top thinly evenly with the slightly-salted margarine. Then pour generously the condensed milk, and then sprinkle some grated cheddar cheese. Cut the cake into two, fold them, and cut it again smaller for small serving.

Another version for the filling would be:

• salty margarine, sweetened condensed milk, some shredded chocolate and the grinded peanuts.