Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, biko (filipino rice cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Biko is a rich, chewy Filipino rice cake made with sticky rice, coconut milk, and dark sugar. Traditionally served in a round, shallow bamboo tray lined with banana leaves known as a bilao, biko belongs to a category of sweets called kakanin, which is made up entirely of rice cakes. Biko (pronounced bee-koh), a rice cake, is a native Filipino delicacy or 'kakanin' where glutinous rice is cooked with coconut milk and brown sugar then topped Latik. The latik can be either in curd form or syrup.
Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have biko (filipino rice cake) using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Biko (Filipino Rice Cake):
- Make ready glutinous rice
- Take coconut milk (kakang gata/ 2 cans of coconut milk will do 400 ml each)
- Get water
- Prepare brown sugar
- Get ube essence (optional)
- Take vegetable oil
It's made from glutinous rice, brown sugar, and coconut milk. Traditionally, biko is garnished with latik (cooked coconut milk residue), but my grandmother's recipe calls for a garnish of coconut flakes, sugar, and sesame seeds instead. Biko (Filipino Sticky Rice Cake) Biko is a Filipino dessert made with glutinous rice, coconut milk, and brown sugar. It's an easy and simple homemade dessert that is popularly served at parties and gatherings.
Steps to make Biko (Filipino Rice Cake):
- Wash glutinous rice in a pot or rice cooker. Drain excess water. Add 2 cups of water. Cook glutinous rice like you would with regular white rice.
- On a pan, pour 2 cups of coconut milk and sugar. Set to medium heat and bring to a boil.
- Add 6 drops of ube essence to mixture (optional).
- Add rice to the mixture. Constant mixing (folding motion) is necessary to prevent crusting at the bottom of the pan.
- Keep mixing till sticky enough that it looks like a dough.
- Put biko in a container and push with a spatula to even out surface.
- Cooking latik: In a separate pan, pour 1 can/2 cups of coconut milk. Bring to boil and set to high heat. Keep stirring until paste-like consistency is observed then add vegetable oil to aid in toasting the coconut milk.
- Once browned remove from heat, and drain and squeeze excess oil with a paper towel.
- Spread latik over biko. Serve and enjoy.
Biko (Filipino Sticky Rice Cake) Biko is a Filipino dessert made with glutinous rice, coconut milk, and brown sugar. It's an easy and simple homemade dessert that is popularly served at parties and gatherings. Without even knowing it, I was eating rice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Constant mixing (folding motion) is necessary to prevent crusting at the bottom of the pan. Keep mixing till sticky enough that it looks like a dough.
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