Myanmar Food
Smooth as Marble or Seaweed Jelly (Kyaukchaw)
Ingredients
- 2 ounces dry seaweed agar
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 medium or 1 ½ pounds
- Coloring grated coconut
How to cook
Soak agar in water 2 hours ahead to swell. Grate
coconuts. Put grated coconut Into a clean wet cloth
and squeeze pure cream from it. Keep this pure cream
separately. Extract pure coconut milk as on page 45.
Clean the swelled agar. Measure it by cupfuls.
Strain diluted coconut into cooking pot, adding
water till there are twice as many cups as agar. Add
sugar and agar and boil till all agar is dissolved.
Set aside about 1/4 6i this in a bowl. Add drops of
coloring to the remaining mixture and stir them in.
Add half coconut cream and pour into shallow dish
large enough to fill up to 1 1/2 inches thick only.
Let cool. Reheat the 1/4 set aside. Combine with
rest of coconut cream and pour onto earlier jelly.
Let set well and cut in diamonds.
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