Nagasari - Coconut and Rice Flour Cake Stuffed with Saba Banana

4.0 from 1 reviews

Author: Anita Jacobson

Categories: Dessert Vegetarian

Cuisines: Indonesian

Ingredients: Fruit Rice

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 40 mins

Total Time: 1 hour

Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 1 can (400 ml) coconut milk
• 100 gram rice flour (Indonesian: tepung beras)
• 50 gram tapioca starch
• 100 ml tablespoon water
• 75 gram sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 saba banana, cut each diagonally into 12 slices
• 12 8"x8" banana leaves, washed and wiped clean

Instructions

1. Stir coconut milk and rice flour in a saucepan until smooth. Cook over medium heat while stirring the mixture continuously until it turns into a thick paste. Quickly remove the saucepan from the heat.
2. Stir tapioca starch and water into a smooth paste and pour it into the rice flour mixture. Add salt and sugar. Mix well.
3. Prepare a steamer over medium heat with about 2 inches of water.
4. Scoop two tablespoons of the rice flour mixture onto the center of a banana leaf, add a slice of banana and push it into the rice flour mixture. Fold into a nice packet. Repeat to make a total of 12 banana leaf packets.
5. Place the wrapped cakes into a steamer basket and steam for 25 minutes.
6. Remove the cakes from the steamer and set them aside to cool to room temperature before serving them.