Seaweed Jelly
(Kyaukchaw)
Ingredients
-
2 ounces dry seaweed agar
-
2 cups sugar
-
2 medium or 1 1/2 pounds
grated coconut
-
Coloring
Directions
-
Soak agar in water 2
hours ahead to swell.
-
Grate coconuts.
-
Put grated coconut into a
clean wet cloth and squeeze pure cream from it.
-
Keep this pure cream
separately.
-
Extract pure coconut
milk. (Or buy it from super market.)
-
Clean the swelled agar.
-
Measure it by cupfuls.
-
Strain diluted coco-nut
into cooking pot, adding water till there are twice as many cups as agar.
-
Add sugar and agar and
boil till all agar is dissolved.
-
Set aside about 1/4 of
this in a bowl.
-
Add drops of coloring to
the remaining mixture and stir them in.
-
Add half coconut cream
and pour into shallow dish large enough to fill up to 1 1/2 inches thick only.
-
Let cool.
-
Reheat the 1/4 set aside.
-
Combine with rest of
coconut cream and pour onto earlier jelly.
-
Let set well and cut in
diamonds.
No comments:
Post a Comment