Beans, Rice, Grated Coconut Cake



Ingredients
500g white glutinous rice.
100g black beans.
1 spoon salt.

Wrapping items
Leaves of young coconut tree
Dried banana stem string

Preparation
Soak white glutinous rice in water for 1 hour and black beans in water for 2 hours.

Cooking
Mix ingredients and fill the folded coconut tree leave. Tie each with dried banana stem string.



Lepat kacang name given
Nyonya cake Malay tradition
Glutinous rice, beans as ingredients
Mix well with grated coconut
Triangular is the shape
Coconut leaves as wrapper
Other places named ketupat
Melakan called it lepat

as meant in the Malay version;

Lepat kacang nama diberi
Kuih Nyonya dan Melayu asli
Bahannya kacang soya serta pulut
Di gaul rata dengan kelapa parut
Bentuknya pula tiga segi
Daun palas baju diberi
Tempat lain namanya ketupat
Di Melaka dipanggil lepat

Visit Melaka means Visit Malaysia

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