Bubur Injin (Black Rice Pudding)

[Bender]

Highly nutritious, this pudding is mainly eaten by the Balinese as an afternoon snack. It’s great topped with fresh fruit, toasted coconut and (of course) a liberal amount of coconut milk.

This is yummy. I realise this is not necessarily one for the meat lovers. Too bad.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup black rice
• 2 tablespoons sticky white rice or plain white rice
• 1 pandan leaf
• 1 vanilla bean
• 2 cinnamon sticks (optional)
• 200g palm sugar (or brown sugar)
• Sea salt
• 4 tablespoons coconut milk
• 1 banana, finely sliced to serve
• 1 tablespoon shredded coconut, lightly toasted

Method:

• Put the black rice in a bowl with 4 cups water. Cover and soak the rice for 6 hours.
• Add the white rice and stir to combine. Soak for a further 2 hours.
• Put the rice and the water into a saucepan.
• Add enough water to cover the rice by 10cm or one thumb. (Do not use a rice cooker for this.)
• Add the pandan leaf, vanilla bean and cinnamon sticks (if using) and bring to the boil.
• Reduce heat to a medium simmer and cook for about 1 hour, stirring ocasionally, until most of the water has evaporated and the rice is tender.
• Add the palm sugar and a pinch of sea salt.
• Simmer over low flame, until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is thick and glossy.
• Taste for sweetness, adding more sugar if desired.
• Spoon the pudding into bowls and top with coconut milk, fruit and toasted coconut.

Serves 4-6

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[Burbage]

I'll stick to black pudding.

[slinky]

Sounds yummy, Bender!

[Bender]

I miss chendol. Anyone got a good recipe?

[Zephyr]

Mmmm, that does sound delicious.. I believe that this is known as bubur pulot hitam in Singapore and Malaysia. Like you I'm also a huge fan of chendol and always make sure to get my fill when I'm home in addition to all the other sweet, colourful Peranakan and Malay kueh.

[Zephyr]

Bender, I've never attenpted to make cendol at home but this seems like a pretty good recipe.

http://roseskitchen.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/cendol/

[Fuzz]

In Java it's called 'Bubur Ketan Hitam'.

Here's the recipe for Cendol - I got it off Yahoo. It's my own translation, so if it doesn't flow nicely, just improvise. Haha.

CENDOL BANDUNG

Ingredients:
650 ml water
2 tbsp pandan water
75g mungbean flour
25g rice flour

Coconut milk:
1 litre coconut milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 pandan leaf, cut into segments

Palm sugar syrup:
250g palm sugar
75g sugar
150 ml water
5 pieces of stoneless jackfruit, cut into small pieces

Instructions:

Cendol:

[*] Mix mungbean flour and rice flour with 200ml of water.
[*] Cook the rest of the water with the pandan water until boiled.
[*] Pour the mungbean flour mix into the boiling water while stirring briskly, until the the mix turns translucent. Set aside.
[*] Prepare a strainer with medium to large sized holes - place above a container filled with icy water. Pour the hot cendol mix on the strainer, press the mix so that the cendols fall into the water.
[*] Pour the water and the cendol over a strainer, and place the cendol in a container filled with cold water.

Sauce:

[*] Boil coconut milk with all of the ingredients whilst stirring constantly. Set aside to cool it down.

Palm sugar syrup:

[*] Boil palm sugar, sugar, and water until the it thickens. Strain the syrup. Put the jackfruit pieces into the palm sugar syrup, set aside to cool.

Serving suggestion:

[*] Place cendol in glasses; pour the palm sugar syrup , then the coconut water mix; place crushed ice on top.
[*] Serve cold.

For 8 glasses.

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Pandan water is probably green to give the cendol its colour, however I would think that you can put pandan water and some natural food colouring if you don't like green cendol.

[BFG]

Looks nice Fuzzlette.

I don't have a problem with meatless puddings, it's the main course that needs to be carnivore-friendly...

[Kooky]

I love black rice pudding.
I love black pudding, too, and I may well eat some next week. Hell, I might even have fried bread as well.

[slinky]

Hell, I might even have fried bread as well.

Go crazy, Babe!!