​My Best Healthy Recipe - Sweet Potato Ang Ku Kueh - Sally

Sweet Potato Ang Ku Kueh ​shared by Sally

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Sweet Potato Ang Ku Kueh - Shared by Sally

Ingredients

Glutinous flour - 140g

Sweet potatoe - 30g

Pandan leaves

Water

Shredded coconut - 250g

Gula melaka - 1 nos 

Cooking Oil

Steps

  1. 1. Cut sweet potatoes into slices & steam for 10-15 mins.

    2. Put 70g glutinous flour into a big bowl. Add boiling water slowly & stir until it starts to coagulate.

    3. Mash the steamed sweet potato. Mix into Step 2. Add water slowly while stirring continuously. Add remainder of flour & stir. Add oil slowly until it becomes springy dough. Keep it  for 10 mins.

    4 Put gula melaka in 50ml water. Mix shredded coconut with gula melaka until it's all absorbed.

    5. Pinch a bit dough & roll it like a small table tennis ball. Make an indentation in the middle and add filling. Then roll again to cover it up.

    6. Sprinkle a bit of flour in mold. Put the rolled dough into mold & flatten lightly. Then overturn the mold and place on a piece of banana leaf. Steam for 8 minutes.

    7. Apply a little oil on steamed Ang Ku Kueh. Ready to serve.

About the participant 

Recipe has been edited for clarity by the HealthXchange team.

Ref: L20

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