Biji Salak & Bubur SumSum (Sweet Potato Ball in Palm Sugar and Rice Flour Pudding)

These desserts are made from sweet potato, palm sugar (brown sugar) and coconut milk. These are very popular in Indonesia. Many people in Indonesia eat these desserts as their breakfast. For me and family, we like to enjoy this sweet things in afternoon time.

You can eat the rice flour pudding just with the palm/brown sugar syrup or you can add with the sweet potato ball.
For the Sweet potato ball you also can simply add coconut milk and it is also come delicious with the rice pudding flour. It is just up to you !

These desserts are very easy to make, but actually in my home town city - Jakarta, you can get this popular desserts from the street vendor, but it is always good the home made one !

Making this brings my childhood memories. In my primary school I used to make this dessert for our cooking competition, and our group was won ! I will share these recipe and hope you all will attempt to make this very easy desserts for yourself, friends and family.. Enjoy!!

Ingredients :

Biji Salak (Sweet Potato Ball)
500 gram sweet potatoes
1/2 cup tapioca flour

Palm/Brown Sugar Syrup :
500 gram Palm sugar or brown sugar
200 gram Sugar
800 ml water
1 teaspoon salt
3 pandan (screwpine) leaf *additional


Directions :
1. Clean and peel the skin of the sweet potatoes.
2. Steamed sweet potatoes until done. Remove from heat and mashed.
2. Take mashed sweet potatoes in mixing bowl, mix with tapioca flour, knead until smooth.
Form the dough into small balls, about 1 cm in diameter, set aside.
3. Bring water to a boil, and drop in the sweet potato balls, cook until they float. Drain and set aside.

Syrup
Directions :
- Put the water, brown sugar, sugar, salt and pandan leaf in a stockpot and bring to boil.
- Strain and put back into stock pot.
- Put all the sweet potato balls that already cooked into this syrup.

* You can enjoy this sweet potato ball just with coconut milk or with Bubur Sumsum (Rice Flour Pudding)


Bubur Sumsum (Rice Flour Pudding)
Ingredients :

100 gram rice flour
600 ml coconut milk
1 teaspoon salt

Directions :

- Mix rice flour with 300 ml coconut milk . Set aside.
- Put into saucepan the rest of coconut milk (300 ml) and salt. Stirring on low medium heat and bring to boil.
- Add the rice flour liquid slowly into it and keep stirring until the rice flour thicken.
- Set aside when done.


**To Serve :
1. Scoop 2 or 3 tablespoon of Bubur Sumsum (the rice flour pudding) into serving bowl.
2. Pour the Biji Salak (Sweet Potato Ball in Palm Sugar) into the bowl.
3. Serve warm or at room temperatur.