A typical Asian dessert, sweet potatoes and yam cooked in a creamy sweet coconut gravy. Love this hot or cold.
This sweet potato and yam dessert with sago pearls served in a rich sweet coconut milk is so good. Cold or hot, its wonderful.
200g orange coloured sweet potato
200g yellow coloured sweet potato
200g purple coloured sweet potato
400g yam
Peel and cut the sweet potatoes into cubes. Put them on a peforated tray and steam them for 20 minutes on high heat. Take tray out of steamer and set aside.
120 ml pandan juice
150g tapioca starch
Put the purple coloured steamed sweet potato in a bowl and mash. Add the tapioca flour and just enough pandan juice to get a nice workable dough. Roll out on a well dusted surface to a flat but not too thin piece of dough. Cut into strips and then into diamond shape little pieces. ( You can also pluck off little pieces of dough and roll them into strips or pearls). Dust in more tapioca flour. Boil water in a large pot filled half full.
When the water is boiling, cook the doughy bits of sweet potato. Stir a bit so they dont stick together. When cooked, take out and put in icy cold water.
500 ml coconut milk
800 ml water + half a cup of evaporated milk
1800g white granulated sugar + 50 g palm sugar, chopped
half teaspoon salt
three pandan leaves, tied into a knot
Put the water, sugar + palm sugar, pandan leaves and salt into a pot. Bring to a boil and stir to dissolve the sugar. Add the coconut milk and evaporated milk. Stir to mix. Add the sweet potatoes (yellow and orange ) and the boiled purple ones. Remove the pandan leaves. Bring to a boil and take off heat.
Sago pearls
Wash pearls and drain through a fine mesh strainer. Put in a saucepan with cool tap water and bring to a boil. Cook stirring often so they don't stick together until they are transparent. Strain the water away through a fine mesh strainer and run them under cool water. Stir the sago pearls into the bubur cha cha.
If you like to add bananas, do so at the end. It would be good to let the bubur cha cha cool down a little as bananas are soft and might get mashy in the hot coconut milk.
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