A second edition of Chap Goh Meh

this post is a bit special and this post is about Bubur Cha Cha.
Enjoy!
=)

I was not in Penang during the past weekend so I could not make it to the Thaipusam festival. And I could not celebrate Chap Goh Meh because there was a death in my family ; my grandmother. So basically, I could not get hold of anything. But I decided to use this. Bubur Cha-Cha is usually made for the Chap Goh Meh festival.
So with no oranges or tangerines to throw here goes my Bubur Cha-Cha recipe.

Bubur Cha-Cha Recipe

Ingredients

300 gms sweet potato - the orange variety

300 gms yam

100 gms pearl sago

1 can of ready cooked red beans

500 gms of grated coconuts

Sugar syrups

2 to 3 pandan leaves

Method

1. Washed and cubed the sweet potato and yam. Steamed separately till cooked for about 10 minutes. Keep aside to cool.
2. Then add 1/4 cup of water to the grated coconut and squeeze out some thick milk in a muslin cloth. Add a pinch of salt to the thick milk and keep aside in fridge.
3. Then add 6 to 8 cups water to the squeezed grated coconut. Mix well and squeeze out the diluted milk in a muslin cloth or fine strainer. Put the milk in a big pot.
4. Together with the knotted pandan leaves and sugar syrup to boiled for about 5 minutes (if you do not have sugar syrup, just add in some sugar).
5. Cook the sago by washing it in running water in a fine sieve before putting it in a pot of boiling water to cook till transparent. Strained and wash under running cold water again to prevent it sticking together before adding it to the pot of boiling coconut milk.
6. Together with the cooked sweet potatoes, yam and red beans. (I boiled some colourful tapioca slices which I bought ready made from the market)
7. Lastly add in the thick coconut milk. Stir evenly under gentle heat. At the first sign of boiling, removed from heat immediately to prevent the thick coconut from curdling.
8. Served hot or cold.

p/s - Bubur Cha Cha is well known as a special desert during Chap Goh Meh but of course, during normal day also we can eat it. Well everyone, have fun cooking it =)