Mari masak agar-agar

With boredom overflows... i decided to use it to make...

AGAR - AGAR

One of Malaysia's famous delicacies, its a tradition to make it for chinese new year or and ocassion actually... even best, after dinner desserts...

all you need,

bay leaves/ pandan leaves, about 3-4 pieces, cleaned, and knotted like this.

colorings

instant coconut powder. you can use liquid, or better, freshly squeezed coconut, but I prefer the instant one and powder as liquid sometimes tends to be spoilt easily...

agar-agar... sold in supermarkets... i got myself 2 packets for this time...

measuring cup...

First, you need to wash the agar-agar... (i believe its better to wash first before cooking it)

cut

rinse

rinse

drain

then, use a pot, boil the amount of water specified from the agar-agar packet, with pandan leaves together.

wait till the water boils, then remove the pandan leaves.

put in the clean agar-agar..

and stir until the agar-agar disolves entirely.

add in sugar to taste, i am a sweet tooth person. For 1 normal packet of agar-agar, i added 8 tablespoons of sugar... just right. agar-agar should be comsumed sweet.. :)

keep stirring and then remove from heat.

have some plates, and separate those agar-agar into them.

add in individual color, just like these:

leave it to harden and cool down, then, cut them into cubes and put it in a bigger mould.

like this...

mix it up

then, wash another packet of agar-agar, and boil another portion of water. with pandan leaves too if preferred.

while waiting for the water to boil, mix the instant coconut with some amount of water.

make sure, that amount of water to be removed from the boiling pot, otherwise, the agar-agar will become softer..

eg, i use 300ml to mix the coconut, so I took away 300ml of water from the pot. and pour it away...

bye bye



when the water boils, add in agar agar and stir till it dissolves.

then, add in the coconut milk.

add in salt to taste. (i added mine 2 teaspoons)

mix all throughly and pour into the mould with the earlier prepared colorful agar-agar.

let it harden and cool down.

end result

tasty agar agar!!!

hehehe....