I think I like making kuih the best out of any Malaysian food. Because it has
a set recipe with exact numbers. It's not agak agak agak-agak. Everything you try to teach me is all agak agak.
Because I don't have the measurement for those things. I really agak-agak!
(Speaking in Malay) Today we want to make Kuih Bingka Labu. Eh, accidentally speaking in Malay
Today we want to make kuih bingka labu. And in order to make kuih bingka labu, what we need is labu.
And by labu he means pumpkin. So today we are at a pumpkin patch.
This is a really special American tradition. It only happens in the month of October.
And there's lots of games, activities, and of course pumpkins. So we're on the hunt
today to pick out the perfect pumpkin to make our... what is it called again?
Kuih bingka labu. Kuih bingka labu.
Yep. Hey where's Zae Zae? Oh he's right here.
You ready for your first pumpkin patch? This is Dada's first pumpkin patch
too. I don't even know what to expect here.
Big big big ones.
Yeah we're going to look for big pumpkins alright. Yeah. Let's do this. Little pumpkins. You want
little pumpkins too? No. No? Just big ones? Yeah. Okay Zae Zae just wants big pumpkins okay. Yeah.
Do we have a pumpkin song? There's one that's like...
Hurrah for pumpkins hurrah for pumpkins. Someone in the crowd yelling hurrah for pumpkins. One
two three four Ky Ky is going to yell some more. Pumpkins that's who.
So this is where all the pumpkins are and they've already all been harvested. But right now we get
to go and look at all them, and pick out what do we think is the best pumpkin for bingka labu.
So how many pumpkins do we need for binka labu? I think we need to get at least two.
But we can also pick out some more fun pumpkins to make other things. We can make a jack-o-lantern.
We can put them as decorations. A good one? Let's find one that's big or little.
Which one do you want Zae Zae? Look at this Zae, that's a pretty cool one there.
Look here. Whoa. He's trying to get over there.
You got it baby. Alright. How about that one? Look at that whoa. Careful baby.
That's a big one too. You guys I never even knew there was this many different kinds of pumpkins.
Over here there's some like little ones. And some weird looking ones.
These ones look pretty normal, right? Do you think this would be good for bingka labu? That looks like
a normal pumpkin but it's kind of tiny. So let's go find some bigger ones. Look at these ones. They're
like not very orange. They're more pink. These ones are really funny looking. Why are they so flat?
It looks like someone sat on them, is what they look like. I don't know. Guys check these out.
What in the world is this? Did you know the pumpkins can be grey?
I never knew this, grey and pink! These look like they belong in the fairytale Cinderella.
Oh and there's baby pumpkins. Whoa look at those huge ones. Those are ginormous.
These are so big. I wonder how much they weigh. But then we also have next to them with really tiny ones too.
Oh my goodness.
So tiny. It's so cute. Look Zaden is trying to find some.
Zae Zae do you have one? You got that one? Alright we got it.
So cute. It looks fake. It looks like a little halloween decoration. These look...
The most normal looking ones. Yeah these are the kind of pumpkins you would take home and carve.
Oh my gosh. That is a very very heavy pumpkin pumpkin.
This is a good sized one too. What do you think? Zae Zae do you want the small one that you're
holding? Or you want the big one that mama's holding? Small one. He said small one. Okay.
Alright, good choice. Okay good pumpkin. So the worker just told us that the best pumpkins for
something sweet like pumpkin pie, or kuih bingka, is the sugar pie one. So let's check them out.
I have no idea how to pick a good pumpkin. I'm just gonna pick whatever looks the prettiest. Who knows.
I'm gonna jump in real quick again. Yeah. These little spots, that's what I was talking about. That
indicates that's the sugar pie. A lot of people do mix other ones in here. Just look for those kind of
little patterns like these guys. Awesome. These are all good. These are all also all organically grown.
Nice. So is there a way to pick the best pumpkin? Or are they all just really good? For me as long as
it's not soft. Okay. Um soft means it's it's too ripe and going bad. Got it. And then under ripe
has green on it still. Okay so like this one looks pretty good, right? Yeah there's kind of a little
bit of green to it this one has more green so this one has probably been picked in the last week.
Got it. And you know if it's ripe like just a little bit soft? You don't
want it too soft. Too soft okay. Like this one, maybe we could probably cut and use this one.
Great, thank you. Yeah. We got the yellow spots. Thank you. We appreciate it. We got one. This one also
looks pretty good. It's got more of the yellow spots too. So firm but not too soft, right? Yes.
Zae Zae come on baby. How about this guy? Does it have the yellow spots on it? Oh there.
There we go. See yellow spots. Perfect. Is this big enough? Looks big enough to me. Alright here we go.
So Zae Zae is a munchkin and he's got a munchkin pumpkin.
This is all our haul of pumpkin from today. But before we make kuih bingka labu.
The first thing we need to do with these pumpkins are we need to make them into
pumpkin puree. But today instead of me, Rachel's actually going to be making the kuih for us.
So Rach. Yeah. What do we need to start with first? I don't think we need to use all the pumpkins,
maybe just pick the biggest one. This one looks good. We need to cut it. We need to take out all
the guts, the seeds. And roast the pumpkin in the oven. Dirty. You want to get your hands dirty?
Yes. You want to get your hands all dirty? Yeah. Okay, well we've got a pumpkin to cut.
And then we can reach in and get all the icky sticky pumpkin guts. Yeah? Okay come help Mama.
So what we have to do is we have to cut the pumpkin open.
This can be used to cut all the fibers around it. Big old knife here.
I have never actually cut the pumpkin by myself. So this is... I read that you're supposed
to start cutting. It's really hard. Do you need my help? I might need you to do this. Okay let me try.
No idea what I'm doing but let's go for it.
Oh it's going in. Yeah. Oh that's beautiful. So now we need to get a spoon and a bowl, and
scoop all this stuff up. Do you want me cut first in the middle? No you're supposed to just do it like this.
So trying to scoop up all the messy stuff in the middle. So later we can use the pumpkin seeds and
roast them. It's really slimy. And this comes in really handy for cutting all these fibers.
Now what we need to do is we need to put these face down on these baking sheets.
Like this. Oh wow we don't need to cut it? No the instructions said just do it like this.
So interesting. For some reason i thought we needed to cut it and everything. No, just put
them face down on the baking sheets and then put them in the oven at 400 degrees fahrenheit.
Pumpkin is baked, I'm gonna just go ahead and start scooping this into the food processor
and making the rest of the puree.
How does it taste? Pretty good actually. That's good pumpkin. Glad it tastes good.
That looks done to me. So the consistency looks good to me.
I think it's time to look at the recipe. We found this recipe online and it is by Che Nom. We
love her recipes. We've made a bunch of her stuff, and I'm going to try to figure out
what it says. It is in Malay. Logesh is here to help me. So first thing bahan bahan... ingredients?
2 cawan tepung gandum.
Two cups flour. Yes correct. Let's go get them.
Here I can grab that for you. Thank you, two and one fourth cawan (cups) santan. Coconut milk. I know that one.
Three biji telur... I know telur means egg. Biji... large? No it's just the word for egg. It's almost like
two pairs of shoe. You don't say two shoe. So for telur they use biji. There's only two eggs in here.
I know I realize that I should be saying tiga. Numbers should be in Malay, come on. I'm sorry. I don't
know how to say fractions though. So if it's like three-fourths. So three-fourth is tiga perempat.
Tiga perempat cawan gula pasir.
Gula is sugar. I don't know what pasir means though.
Pasir means sand. Oh so it's like fine. Here we call it granulated sugar. Correct, yeah.
Satu... so it's one half... satu something dua. So if it's a one half you can just say "setengah"
How am I supposed to know this? That's different yeah.
Setengah means half.
Sudu kecil garam halus.
Garam is salt, right? Yep. So just fine salt? Correct. Fine salt yeah. Halus means fine.
Tiga sudu. What does sudu mean. I didn't get that last time. What do you think they measure salt with? Teaspoons.
Yeah. So sudu kacil is teaspoon. Sudu besar is tablespoon. It's small and big spoon.
What does sudu mentega mean? Mentega...butter! Yeah it says "cairkan". Melted? Alright.
2 cawan puri labu.
Oh two cups of the pumpkin puree. Correct. Bijan secukupnya.
Sesame seeds. Correct. I only got that because of the picture. That's totally cheating. Do we
have that? We don't have sesame seeds, no. So we'll just make this without sesame seeds. That's fine.
Masukkan tepung santan. Massukan.
Massukan... what does that mean? Put in. Ok we want to put in "tepung" flour, "santan" coconut milk, "telur" egg,
"gula pasir" oh gula pasir, got it. Garam, mentega. Kisar semua bahan-bahan tersebut sehingga sebati.
What does that mean? Grind everything up until it's until it's combined. Okay. Sabatini means combine.
So it looks like all the ingredients except the pumpkin go in here right now.
Tuang bahan kisar ke dalam bekas dan kacau bersama puri labu.
All I got from that was the pumpkin puree. What do I need to do next? You need to mix the blended
stuff with the pumpkin puree. Okay let's do that then. Kacau means mix it. Good to know. Kacau could
also mean disturb. Like you disturb someone. Oh like you're like stirring up trouble? Yeah.
2 cawan puri labu.
I think we're definitely gonna have way more than enough pumpkin puree.
We still got two more pumpkins over there. I mean one more pumpkin.
What are we gonna do with that? You can keep it in the fridge for up to a week.
Or in the freezer for up to three months. I was thinking pumpkin pie. Or we could also make more
kuih bingka labu if we like it enough. If you guys have any other ideas of what to make with pumpkin puree,
leave it down in the comments below. We are all ears. I'm gonna look at this but I need your help.
Because sometimes with recipes they'll say fold it in, blend it really nicely, so with it it says...
Tuang bahan kisar ke dalam bekas dan kacau bersama puri labu.
Does it say anything but how to mix it? It's just saying pour the blended items into a container
and mix it with the pumpkin puree. It's supposed to be fully mixed okay.
You know what. I was just thinking about this. I think I like making kuih the best out of any
Malaysian food. Because it has a set recipe with exact numbers. It's not agak agak agak agak (approximately).
Everything you try to teach me is all agak agak. Because I don't have the measurement for those things. It's really agak agak.
That's why I said I like making kuih because there's measurements for everything. This looks beautiful.
Tuang bancuhan ke dalam acuan yang sudah digris dengan minyak. I know minyak is oil.
Digris...it's telling me to do it at a certain amount of degrees? No it's asking you to
grease the paint. Oh digris is grease the pan? Greasing the pan. So I need to grease the pan. Got it.
Sehingga bahagian atas kuih masak keperangan.
So basically it's asking you to cook it until the top of the kuih is like
brownish, golden brownish, I think. Oh okay. Alight let's try this. So I need to oil a pan.
The last step is keluarkan... keluar means exit so keluarkan means take out? Yep correct.
Dari acuan dan sejukkan sebelum dipotong.
Take it out and make sure it's cold before you cut it.
Got it well. It has to cook at least 20-25 minutes before putting
sesame seeds on top. So let's start there and see how cooked it is, and then keep going after.
So excited. Does this look done to you? I think so... ooh ah. Is it supposed to kind of be like a
little bit wiggly. Can you see the sides? Yeah it looks pretty done to me. I think it's done. Okay.
Ooh la la. Are you ready to try this? Yeah. Let's do this. Can't wait any longer, I'm so hungry
It's still hot. The first piece is always hard.
There's still steam coming off. Look at that. Pretty sure we're supposed to wait for it to
cool all the way. So texture came out pretty good. Let's try. So I have never had kuih bingka labu
before. I've had the regular kuih bingka, but not labu. So this is my first time trying.
My first time too it's still warm. We're supposed to wait a bit longer, but we just can't wait anymore.
It's like pudding. It's really good. It's good. It's really good. I actually really feel that it'll
taste better when it's cold. Do you agree? Probably. It's a bit too warm. I like it though it's like a
nice hot treat. It's nice, don't get me wrong. It tastes amazing. But you're right we should try
it again tomorrow when it's cooled off. I love the texture though it's so nice. You nailed it.
All with your help. Kuih. Thank you again for joining us in our adventures in the Kumaar family.
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