A Malaysian Classic: Kuih Dadar/Kuih Ketayap

We were informed early of the month, that Calvin's kindergarten is organizing a small National Day celebration on the 30th Aug'13, which is yesterday. Every students are requested to bring any kind of Malaysian local food to school. It can be either biscuits, snacks and drinks as well. Last year, he brought a Mooncake. But this year I suggested to bring a local Malay dessert - Kuih Ketayap. Browsed from the bookshelf and I found the recipe.

 

Kuih Dadar (Adapted from Hawker's Kuih-Muih Favourites, page 13)

Filling ingredients

1 grated coconut

1 piece or 120gm palm sugar

1/2tsp salt

3tbsp of water

To make the filling, cook the palm sugar and water until dissolved. Add in the grated coconut and stir until well combined. Remove and leave it cool.

 Wrapper Ingredients

180g plain flour

1 egg

1/3tsp salt

350ml Pandan (screw-pine leafs) juice

For the wrapper, mix all the ingredients until smooth. Strain the batter if necessary for smoother crepes. Once completed, rest in the fridge for 30mins. Heat up the pan, spoon enough batter into the frying pan. Cook under low heat until cooked and slightly burn on both sides.

Then, wrap each crepes with grated coconut filling. Fold up and roll up as a spring rolls. Probably I can get 20 rolls instead of 12, if I can fried thinner crepes.

Calvin always be my first food tester. He always give me good review and comments without fail. Thank you for his support.

 Since everyone will brought a food, teacher advised not to bring so many. So I just prepare some for him to bring it to his kinder only.

Here I'm sharing this Kuih Dadar/Kuih Ketayap with Cook-Your-Books #3 on this 31st Aug 2013, hosted by Joyce from Kitchen Flavours.

 

Yesterday morning, Calvin also wore on his blue Baju Melayu which I bought specially for his Malaysia Day event last year H>E>R>E. So this year, I let him wear it again - on a different function (*_^). For a complete look, he suggested to get him a "songkok" pula tu.

 

Calvin told me besides enjoying a variety of  Malaysian local tradition food and snack with his friends, they were also taught to make Hibiscus Flower during art and craft session - our "Bunga Kebangsaan" he said.  Later on, before he went to bed, he raised his hand and shouted "Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka" happily. So Happy National Day to everyone.

p/s: I might not be blogging for this coming couple of weeks. Need more time to juggle between office work, organizing an event this coming Malaysia Day, Calvin's birthday and my friend's wedding - really looking forward to that. Furthermore, I shall continue to blog about my Cameron and Hatyai trip again next time. How I really wish to stop the clock from ticking.... Till then, please take good care of yourself for me until I get back. So S.Y.S!