Biko (Filipino Rice Cake)
Biko (Filipino Rice Cake)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, biko (filipino rice cake). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook biko (filipino rice cake) using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Biko (Filipino Rice Cake):
  1. Prepare 2 cups glutinous rice
  2. Make ready 4 cups coconut milk (kakang gata/ 2 cans of coconut milk will do 400 ml each)
  3. Prepare 2 cups water
  4. Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
  5. Take 6 drops ube essence (optional)
  6. Get 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Instructions to make Biko (Filipino Rice Cake):
  1. Wash glutinous rice in a pot or rice cooker. Drain excess water. Add 2 cups of water. Cook glutinous rice like you would with regular white rice.
  2. On a pan, pour 2 cups of coconut milk and sugar. Set to medium heat and bring to a boil.
  3. Add 6 drops of ube essence to mixture (optional).
  4. Add rice to the mixture. Constant mixing (folding motion) is necessary to prevent crusting at the bottom of the pan.
  5. Keep mixing till sticky enough that it looks like a dough.
  6. Put biko in a container and push with a spatula to even out surface.
  7. Cooking latik: In a separate pan, pour 1 can/2 cups of coconut milk. Bring to boil and set to high heat. Keep stirring until paste-like consistency is observed then add vegetable oil to aid in toasting the coconut milk.
  8. Once browned remove from heat, and drain and squeeze excess oil with a paper towel.
  9. Spread latik over biko. Serve and enjoy.

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