Does your family has an old school beverages? One dish that we would make it exactly in the same way every time?
Well during Ramadhan, one typical beverages that every house hold will make at least ones on this month is Kolak.
Kolak is a coconut milk based beverages, sweetened with palm sugar as the “broth”. You can add steamed banana, boiled sweet potatoes, boiled cassavas even steamed corn.
I prefer eat it as a cold beverages, but it taste addictive served warm. The sweet and deep taste from palm sugar, married with creamy coconut milk will blow your taste buds away.
Well, I don’t quite like it. I mean, one cup is enough for a month.
Since I stumble into funny taste of ice cream, I’m thinking about making a deconstructed Kolak Pisang. My take on it was, turning the coconut milk into jelly, then caramelized the banana with palm sugar and add Coconut (or purple sticky rice) flavored ice cream.
It didn’t look too bad, isn’t it? But I miss the luscious and deep flavor from the regular Kolak. The banana became too dry after a while. Well, at least it still eatable.
Another day in cooking with no recipes, sometimes wing it takes a toll.
a deconstructed Kolak Pisang (jelly coconut milk, caramelized banana and purple sticky rice ice cream)
the ice cream saves the day. its creaminess, sourness cuts the flat flavor of the rest.
the heroes, a purple sticky rice flavored ice cream and young coconut ice cream.
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