Ingredients

How to make it

  • Prep time does not include chillinmg etc
  • Chop the taro or sweet potato into large cubes and steam until cooked through.
  • Heat the coconut milk in a sauce pan on a very low heat (about 55 degrees celsius, this is nowhere near boiling, it is simply hot to the touch).
  • Mix the corn flour with 100 ml water and add to the coconut milk in the saucepan.
  • Add the sugar, salt, and skimmed milk, to the saucepan and stir until everything is dissolve.
  • Warm it to 65 degrees C and keep stirring it. Do not let it boil.
  • Mash the taro cubes with a fork and add into saucepan and using a hand blender blender the contents of the pan until the mixture is completely smooth and the taro has disappeared into the liquid.
  • Warm the pan a little higher to 80 degrees C for 4 minutes.
  • Again it must not boil.
  • This is to cook the flour through, without permitting it to become a thick sauce.
  • The mixture should be cooled quickly and then put in the fridge, the best way to do with is to empty it into a containing that is sitting in ice water.
  • Once it is cool enough, put it into the freezer until frozen.
  • While it is freezing ice crystals will form, every few hours you should remove it from the freezer and blend it with a hand blender to break up the crystals.
  • These are used as the topping, they have a gummy texture and a rose smell, if you prefer you can use vanilla essence in water for a vanilla smell or other fruit essences.
  • You can use coconut essence if you really want to emphasize the coconut taste.
  • The colours need to be made up separately, steps 2 - 4 should be repeated for the red, green and yellow shapes in separate cups.
  • Drop the red food colorings into a cup and add 1 1/2 tablespoons of rose water.
  • Add 3 tablespoons of sticky rice flour to the cup and mix to a paste.
  • Pinch off small amounts of the paste and roll into tiny (corn sized) balls, or small sausages.
  • Repeat steps 2-4 for yellow and for green food colouring.
  • Boil water in a saucepan and drop the balls and sausages into the boiling water.
  • They will swell slightly when cooked, it only takes a couple of minutes.
  • One cooked, scoop them out with a sieve and drop into the cold water.
  • Mix a few with the ice-cream just before serving.

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    " It was excellent "
    momo_55grandma ate it and said...
    great flavor wonderful post thanks high5
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    " It was excellent "
    chichimonkeyface ate it and said...
    looks original, I'd never make this but I am sure others would!
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