Kalamay Hati made with glutinous rice flour, coconut milk and muscovado sugar. Perfectly sweet and sticky, this rice cake is great as snack or dessert!
My peeps, I am so stoked! One of my recipes is on Appetite Magazine!
Back in August, I received an email from the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Nina Daza-Puyat (yes, the daughter of the one and only Nora Daza!) requesting to feature my chicken skin chicharon recipe for the home projects section of their magazine.
You could just imagine my disbelief. Moi? Being contacted by THE daughter of MY idol for my recipe? MY recipe! I thought I was being punked!
As it turned out, the email was indeed real. We exchanged a few more over the next few weeks and then today, she informed me that Appetite’s October 2015 featuring my recipe is now available in stores and she’d love to send me a copy here in the U.S. I was so excited to even wait, I bought the app version of the magazine so I can check it out ASAP.
OMG! What a fine job they did, the step-by-step photos were spectacular. Please, please hurry to your nearby newsstand and get your copy today! Along with the chicken skin chicharon, the magazine is packed with recipes and meal ideas to try at home. There are also about five ingenious versions of paella which will be perfect for your upcoming holiday celebrations.
Anyway, let me get off cloud nine and get on with our recipe for the day. Kalamay hati is a simple affair of glutinous rice flour, coconut milk and muscovado brown sugar. Although easy to make, it does require a bit of elbow grease as the mixture needs to be stirred and turned in the pan for a good hour or so until you can hardly lift the spoon.
Tips on How to Make Kalamay Hati:
- Use a non-stick pan to make stirring easier.
- Brush the banana lining with coconut oil for added flavor.
- After transferring the cooked mixture into the serving dish, gently tap on the counter to easily spread out and flatten the rice cake. Use a lightly-oiled knife or spatula to smooth the top.
- Skip brushing the kalamay with coconut oil when serving cold as the oil will harden into a greasy film.
Make sure to include this in your Noche Buena line up of desserts and enjoy!
Kalamay Hati
Ingredients
- 2 cans (19 ounces each) coconut milk
- 2 cups glutinous rice flour
- 2-1/2 cups muscovado brown sugar
For the Latik
- 1 cup coconut cream
Instructions
- Over medium heat, cook, stirring frequently, for about 10 to 15 minutes or until mixture thickens and forms a smooth dough.
- Add muscovado brown sugar and stir until sugar is dissolved and mixture is evenly brown in color.
- Continue to cook for about 50 minutes to 1 hour or until mixture is very thick, sticky and can hardly lift from the pan.
- Line a serving pan with wilted banana leaves and then brush leaves with coconut oil from the latik.
- Transfer the kalamay mixture into the prepared pan. Gently tap pan on the counter to spread mixture. Use a lightly-oiled knife to smooth top.
- Brush surface with coconut oil and top with latik.
For the Latik
- In a pan over medium heat, add coconut cream and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid starts to thicken.
- Lower heat and continue to cook.
- As oil starts to separate and solids begin to form, regularly stir and scrape sides and bottom of pan to prevent from burning.
- Continue to cook and stir until curds turn golden brown.
- Drain latik from the oil and store in a container until ready to use.
Nutrition
Is glutinous rice the same as glutinous rice flour for this recipe? Thanks, Lalaine!
Yes, you can use glutinous rice but you night to grind it to powder form 🙂
Hi Ms. Lalaine. How is a coconut milk different from coconut cream? what if I can’t find coconut cream where i’m at? Is this lost cause? 🙂
Hello Gen
Coconut cream is kakang gata, the first extraction which is thicker 🙂
Its only now that i’ve read that you and your recipe was feature in Appetites Magazine Oct 2015 so congrats and more power to Kawaling Pinoy being a Filipino I am very proud of you. CONGRATS!!!!!
Wow! Congrats Ms. Lalaine. We’re so happy for you! I hope more of your recipes can be featured in more publications. Keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing with us your recipes!
Thank you, Nova 🙂
Hi Lalaine,
Many congratulations on your printed recipe on APPETITE magazine. I am so happy for you and am so proud I am one of your followers!!
I have just texted my niece in the Phils to get me a copy/copies!!! as I wanted to give my families their own copies!!
I will be in Phils this December and would love to try your recipe there and then!! We will have a wonderful time trying all your recipes, you’ve sent through my email, and I can’t thank you enough for all your kindness! God bless your heart.
Regards,
Paz
Thank you, Miss Paz. I hope your vacation. Have lots of fun and food 🙂
This looks so good! I can’t wait to make it! However I am a bit confused. The instruction calls for water but I don’t see water in your list of ingredients. Thanks for the clarification in advance.
Theresa
Hi Theresa
It was a typo, I corrected the recipe. Thanks for letting me know 🙂