Bubur Cha-Cha

A favorite desert for my entire family. I was introduced to this from an very early age when my mum and god-aunt made this as an offering to our ancestors. Now, we make this just for fun as a desert. This time round, I used Japanese sweet potato which explains the dark purple you see here. Very rich food, high in cholesterol so we try to eat this in moderation.

Some party goers at Blogdumps were given a glimpse of this and thought they might want to try it. So here's the recipe...Trina this is for you.

Ingredients

300g yam, diced 300g sweet potatoes (choose the yellow and orange variety), diced 75g black-eyed beans, soaked for 2–3 hours 75g pearl sago A few drops pink colouring 450g grated coconut 1.2 litres water 1/2 tsp salt Syrup: 125g sugar 3–4 pandan leaves, shredded and knotted 1 cup water Method Steam sweet potatoes and yam separately for 10–15 minutes or until soft. Set aside. Boil soaked black-eyed beans until soft. Drain and set aside. Put sago in a sieve then place sieve in a large bowl. Rinse sago under running tap water then cook the sago in a pot of hot water until transparent. Remove and rinse under cold water and drain. Add colouring to sago and coat with 2 tablespoons tapioca flour. Squeeze and strain grated coconut to obtain thick coconut milk. Add salt to the thick coconut milk and keep refrigerated. Add 1.2l water to the coconut residue and squeeze to obtain thin coconut milk. Boil sugar, water and pandan leaves until sugar dissolves. Add thin coconut milk and continue to boil for 5–6 minutes. Add yam, sweet potatoes, black-eyed beans and sago. Stir evenly. Add thick coconut milk and at the first sign of boiling, immediately remove the pot from the heat. Remove the pandan leaves and serve either hot or cold.

Note: For my version, I added bananas (u can soak this in sugar syrup and add them in only when you want to serve). Also I dispensed with the black-eyed peas and sago as I find that the effort is too tedious and does not enhance the taste that much more for the effort put in. However, screw pine leaves or pandan leaves is required and if you are finding it hard to get this where you are, you can replace with pandan essence.

Hope you have time to try this out and let me know if you do.