Hi guys! Welcome back to my channel :) Um today I have a very special guest...
Her name is Sophie, one of my good friends and we're gonna do some baking. Yes. Yes.
We're gonna do some baking and we're gonna make a Malaysian dessert called seri muka
and it's basically got a glutinous rice base on the bottom and a green pandan thing on the top.
I don't know how to describe it, but thankfully we're gonna make it so you guys can see for
yourself. Um yeah we're just about to soak some rice so that it's softer and nicer
um and then we will come back and make stuff. It's gonna be fun! Yeah. Yeah. cool. Um, so if
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It is two plus hours later and we have soaked the rice um
and then the next step is to mix salt rice and half a can of coconut milk.
The next step is to make salt rise in half a can of coconut cream
topping up with water to two and three quarter cups of liquid so let's do it cool
so pour half the can into that.
(What are you making? Seri muka)
There's one cup
and then we need three quarters.
The quarter cup is so small. It's tiny
And we need salt. Salt salt.
and now we glad wrap and I'm going to cut some holes in it.
And then we cook for 10 minutes and then stir and then cook for another 10.
In she goes. In she goes. She looks beautiful
Oh yeah that smells nice and ricey. That smells really yum... it does smell really good.
Peel it back and then we'll give it a stir yeah.
Oh it seems veryyyy......... Oh it's looking pretty much ready it looks.
Oh this is delightful
It says we should put it in for a further 10, but it's looking ready already. So... we'll see. We'll keep you posted.
My name is Li Mei and I'm Sophie. Today on the Somei show we have a segment for you about
the Malaysian kuih, kuih seri muka.
Um as I said kuih seri muka is from Malaysia.
The word kuih means cake or cookie.
The word seri means glow or radiance, and muka means face.
So together this may be called the pretty face cake.
Um so it comes in two layers. The bottom is a gelatinous sticky rice,
but it doesn't actually have any gelatin in it, so that's interesting.
Um and on top is a green layer which is made of pandan which is a green tropical
plant which is often used for fragrance and coloring and it can be used in a lot
of things, but it's often called the asian vanilla.
and that's us for tonight. Cheers!
Oh yeah that's good. That looks pretty good. That looks really delightful, I'm thinking that's good.
So we've just taken the glutinous rice.... OHHHOHOH
We've just taken the glutinous rice out of the microwave. it looks pretty good
and now we've got to press it down, um super compact so there's space for the pandan custard on top.
But yeah Sophie's doing a lovely job.
Whooooo
The cheeky pandan ;)
It's pretty thick
Oops
Like tilt it up. Otherwise it'll just keep going. Yeahhh.
We're just sieving this um because it's pretty lumpy.
But yeah, this is one of my favorite Malaysian desserts.
Have you ever had it before? I've actually not (oh really?!). So I'm really excited.
I thought that you'd tried it before. No I haven't. I've had other Malaysian desserts though. Yeah yeah.
So this will be Sophie's first tasting experience (I'm excited). Which is very exciting.
Yeah this is a classic from my childhood. I've tried to make it a lot of times and failed a lot of times...
We're not going to fail this time though.
I don't think so.
After this we have to pour the green pandan mixture on top of the rice
um and then we'll cook it as well.
Either in the microwave or on the stove, but I need to double check yeah.
Then we mix her upppp. Oh that looks so nice. That looks way better.
Woowwwww. Looks like icing. Yeah it does.
Looks so good. It looks really yummy. Okay, all right! Phase two.
Now we POURRRR.
Wow
Oooh yeah the ratio is looking nice. Yes, oh yes, excellent.
In my personal opinion, the ratio of rice to topping is very important.
Because if it's too much rice then it's not sweet enough sweet enough and then if there's too much
toppings it's too salty.
But this is perfect it looks really good. There's not too many bubbles. Those will pop shortly.
And you know we're just
within the limits of the container so that's perfect.
We have to get a pan
and then you boil a jug of water
and then you put the dish into the pan
and then you put a lid on it and you boil the whole thing and that is how you steam things.
We just have to remember to keep checking in on the water levels
because if the water level goes
down too much then it can burn the kuih.
But yeah we're gonna turn it on, let it steam for 30 minutes and we'll see how it goes. Hopefully it's good...
That looks so good
Yeahhhhhh it looks very interesting...
So we are not professionals. It looks a bit funky, but I don't really know what's wrong with it.
Um I think it's just the water that pooled a little bit on the top.
She'll be right. It'll still taste good. Hopefully...
Yes I'm sure it will. We just put in the microwave for like
two minutes to um.. just evaporate some of the water that definitely went on it and it shouldn't have
-caused a couple of potholes. Yeah there's some potholes in there okay.
Um and really we should wait for it to cool before we slice it up and eat it,
but um we don't have the self-control for that. We're impatient and hungry.
It smells good (yeah!) Sooo...
If you go like this. This is where the magic happens (ahhh the magic!) yeah
This is what we've got!! It looks beautiful- it smells so good. Yeah it does.
Um yeah. It's only like this because it's um... hot? hot yeah.
It should be a lot more together, but it's okay. It's okay we're gonna go for it.
Shall we taste it? We shall. Oh it's really warm okay
Ahhhahaaa
It's really good.
I like it a lot- top is chewy. The bottom is saltier.
Very good, excellent. Yeah. I'm satisfied.
I'm very happy with the rice because other times when I've made this, the rice can be hard or like...
Mmm it's the right amount of sticky. Mmm I think the extra five minutes was a good choice. Yeah.
Not gonna lie, I would put more sugar in the top. I like sweet things, but it's good.
OHh. It's really yum- and hot.
It's really yum.
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Um if you want more baking content let us know down below.
We can do more Malaysian dishes or other things too.
But yeah, thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time! Bye. Bye!
Do you have any last words? Nahhh. Okay. Yasss, success!