"Blue" Rice topped with Coconut
Ingredients
| — | 1 lb rice |
| — | 1 lb grated coconut |
| — | 30 Butterfly Pea flowers |
| — | 8 oz palm sugar |
| — | 5 oz coconut milk |
| — | 8 oz powdered sugar |
| — | ½ Tbs salt |
| — | 1 Tbs rice flour |
Instructions
Boil Butterfly Pea flowers in water. Cool blue water and pour over rice. Soak rice in water for 1 hour. Strain and steam rice over high heat for 30 minutes. Pour coconut milk and salt over the rice and mix well. Cover the rice and steam for another 20 minutes. Let cool and serve on banana leaf. Then melt sugar in about 3oz of water. Grate coconut and add to sugar water. Cook mixture over medium heat for 10 minutes or until sticky-looking. Add and stir in the rice flour, then allow to cool. Roll the coconut/sugar/rice mixture into a ball and place on top of the blue rice. Serve and enjoy!