Putu Steamed Cake

Putu cake (from the Java language, Puthu [IPA: / puʈu /]) is a type of Indonesian food such as cakes that contain palm sugar and grated coconut, rice flour coarse. This cake steamed in bamboo tube placed inside a slightly compacted and sold on at sunset until late at night. Distinctive sound of steam hissing out of the tool is both a promotional tool for merchants who sell.
Most of the colors are desperate cake is white and green. A number of traders present to replace the bamboo with a PVC pipe with practicality reasons, although in terms of the use of PVC endanger health.

Ingredients

• 300 ml water
• 1 / 2 teaspoon salt
• 2 pandan leaves
• 375 g dried rice flour
• 25 gr brown sugar, sliced thin
• 1 tsp of pandan food coloring flavour
• Sprinkles (mix and steam until done)
• 150 gr coconut
• 1 / 2 teaspoon salt

Materials

1. Putu Bambu steamer
2. Sieve with large holes

How to Make

1. Boil water, salt, pandan leaf.
2. Enter the rice flour in a container, pour the warm pandan water while knitting by hand until smooth grains.
3. Use a sieve with large holes, to shape the dough in fine grains.
4. Put half a tablespoon flour dough in a bamboo pipe, then insert a teaspoon brown sugar, cover with half a tablespoon rice flour dough (do not press).
5. (For filling easy, you can use a pandan or banana leaf to cover the bottom of the bamboo pipe)
6. Put the bamboo pipe on the pan and steam for 10 minutes over high heat.
7. Take out and cover it with the sprinkles.
8. Remove from mold and serve warm with extra grated coconut

Categories: Sweet Desserts