Kue Lapis pandan

In Indonesia there is a phrase called "ngidam" literally it means a wish for something. This wish is commonly happened to women who are pregnant. There are a lot of stories during pregnancy related to this wish lists, more special is of course how to accomplish the lists.

When I was younger, listening to the ngidam among the women sounds natural, the common one is of course eating young mango with sambal rudjak when the mango seasons is far-far away from the moment, or even when the mango trees just started the fruity seasons and since not all mango trees started at the same time, to find a young mango is probably the same hard as to find an oase in the desert. The last one, of course, I exaggerated a bit. . The merrier story always goes to the one which is the most difficult to achieve. Once, I read a story like this one: a husband is asked to buy a late nite es cendol ( ice drink made of rice flour) with a male seller wearing a black shirt, with his moving stall (gerobak) crossing the street at nite. Now, can you imagine how poor this guy is?

Now, I realized whether the ngidam does really happened or was it just a scheme created by women to be spoiled by their hubbies especially during the pregnancy time.

So my friend is coming over for a chat like usual, the different is that she is coming with a belly bump, carrying her 5 months old pregnancy.When I asked her if she is ngidam for something, she said she missed kue lapis. So after finishing a plate of rujak, we continue the chatting in the kitchen making the kue lapis. In this recipe I only did two layer, instead of five as commonly made, well I think making two layers just more practical.

Here is the recipe:

1 can coconut milk
2.5 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of rice flour
1/2 cup of tapioka flour
1 pc pandan leaves
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pandan essence

Direction:

1. Boiled the coconut milk + salt + water + pandan leaves, set aside.
2. Mix the flour and sugar. Then add the boiled coconut milk, stir slowly until they blend well.
3. Divide the mix into 2 parts, one parts remained white and add pandan essence to the other part, this will make it green.
4. Prepared the steaming pan, spray it with vegetable oil.
5. Heat the steamer and then  pour the white part to the pan. Steam for 5 minutes
6. Then add the green part steamed for other 5 mintes.
7. Steamed them together for further 20 minutes.
8. Let it cool before serving.


ps: You can do more layers with the same technique.