Cookbook:Khanom Tian (Thai Coconut Rice Dumplings)
Khanom Tian (Thai Coconut Rice Dumplings) | |
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Category | Dumpling recipes |
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Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes
Khanom Tian (ขนมเทียน) is a pyramid-shaped Chinese-Thai dessert, often served during festivals such as Sat Chin (Chinese Ghost Festival) and Chinese New Year. This dessert consists of a dough and a salty or sweet filling.
Ingredients edit
Dough edit
- 100 g palm sugar
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 200 g glutinous rice flour
Sweet filling edit
- 100 g palm sugar
- 2 cups overripe coconut
- 1 cup water
- 6 large banana leaves
Procedure edit
Dough edit
- Melt the palm sugar in a pan with coconut milk and cool to room temperature.
- Mix the glutinous rice flour with the coconut milk until a smooth and slightly sticky dough is formed.
- Cover the dough and let sit for 3 hours or overnight.
Filling edit
- Combine the palm sugar and water in a pan, and simmer until dry enough.
- Add coconut, and simmer until it is sticky.
- Let it sit for 10–15 minutes.
Assembly edit
- Oil your hand. Roll a 3-cm chunk of dough into a ball, and flatten it into a circle.
- Place a ball of filling into the dough. Gently fold the dough around the filling, and pinch the seams shut.
- Place the dough balls into a greased dish to prevent sticking.
- Wash the banana leaves. Use scissors to cut the leaves into two rounded sizes—one should be 16–18 cm in diameter and the others 12–14 cm in diameter.
- Place a large leaf section and a small leaf section together with the dull sides facing each other. This doubles up the leaves and makes them stronger. Do this for all the leaves.
- Fold one end of the banana leaf into a cone, and drop in the stuffed dough ball.
- Fold over the shorter side of the cone.
- Fold over both sides of the banana leaf perpendicularly to the cone seam.
- Tuck the long tail into the little slot.
- Fold over the long tail that is left, and put it into the slot. Crease the folds of the pyramid a bit to strengthen it.
Cooking edit
Notes, tips, and variations edit
- The video here provides a demonstration on how to shape the banana leaves during assembly.