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Inutak

Inutak is a layered coconut and ube rice cake with a golden coconut-cream top.

1 hour · Serves 8

Ingredients for Inutak

  • 2 cups glutinous rice flour
  • 1/4 cup purple yam powder
  • 4 cups coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup coconut cream
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Purple food coloring
  • Vanilla or ube ice cream, for serving
  • Banana leaf

How to cook Inutak

  1. 1.Whisk glutinous rice flour, sugar, salt, vanilla, and coconut milk until lump-free; divide evenly between two bowls.
  2. 2.Mix purple yam powder and enough food coloring into one portion for a deep purple mixture.
  3. 3.Cook each mixture separately in nonstick pans over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until thick, smooth, and slightly oily.
  4. 4.Line a 7-inch baking pan with banana leaf. Press in the purple layer, then the white layer, smoothing each evenly.
  5. 5.Pour coconut cream over the top. Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes, then broil at 230°C until golden brown.
  6. 6.Cool before slicing and serve with vanilla or ube ice cream.
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