What is Kuih Cara ?
Kuih Cara is a type of kuih origin from Malaysia. The basic ingredients for Kuih Cara are coconut milk, wheat flour, egg, salt, water and cooking oil. Kuih Cara cooked using a special mould.
It has two varieties with two different tastes and colour, sweet and green in colour for Kuih Cara Manis . While savoury and yellow in colour with fillings for Kuih Cara Berlauk.
The batter to make these are the same except the colour, shape and fillings of the kuih are different.
During good old days, Malay used coconut husk and charcoal as fuel to cook the kuih.
Now it is much easier, that we cooked it on a stove with a low heat.
Preparation before cooking the kuih
To prepare the special mould, it needs to be preheated on the stove and grease it with cooking oil.
I used pandan brush for that.
Next, we must ensure the mould is very hot before adding the batter.
When I placed the pandan brush on the hot mould, there will be hissing sounds coming from it. From there I know that the mould is hot for me to pour the batter.
The batter takes approximately ten minutes to cook and the kuih need to take out using fork.
The process continued until the batter finish.
This are the basic of making Kuih Cara.
Here I will be explaining in details about two types of Kuih Cara.
Kuih Cara Manis
Manis is referring to sugar that being added later in the batter when we cook.
This is one of kuih that we do not add sugar while mixing the batter.
Thus, the amount of sugar can be adjusted per liking.
For Kuih Cara Manis, as I mentioned normally the color is green.
In order to get the beautiful green colour I mixed pandan juice and two drops of green food colouring while mixing the batter.
To get the shape of the Kuih Cara Manis, we cook it in oval shape mould.
As for way to serve, we usually place two Kuih Cara Manis on top of each other.
Kuih Cara Berlauk
Lauk referring to the filling that we are going to used compared to using sugar in Kuih Cara Manis
The savoury filling is using minced meat cooked with garlic, red onion and curry paste.
As you can see, we also add a slice of chilli and Chinese celery (daun sup) that being added later.
Kuih Cara Berlauk has yellow colour and usually we used flowery shape mould to accommodate the rich filling.
The way we served Kuih Cara Berlauk is we display it as a single kuih.
These traditional kuih using basic ingredients and simple method that can be made at home.
The Kuih Cara Manis suitable for kids while Kuih Cara Berlauk for adults. It can be enjoyed at tea time.
Updated and checked by Halaman Sihat on 8th May 2024.
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