Topic: I want also special dishes from your home country!!

[peter van der m.]

as soon as my wife is back,14 july!!! ,
i'l ask her to put the recipe in this topic or sned it to you by pm!!

[maya]

SWEET POTATO DESERT

Indonesians call it  Talam Ubi which is equal to Philipinos 's Kalamay na Ube  (Lutong Kapampangan).  Let's hear from Peter's wife whether this is the same with Ubeá (?).  I love to eat dus eet ik veel eten van andere landen maar ik kan zelf niet goed koken   (he he he how's mu dutch btw ??

TALAM UBI   a.k.a Kalamay na Ube

Ingredients

2 packs frozen ube
4 cups white sugar
1 box mochiko (sweet rice flour)
2 cans coconut milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
latik (make latik by cooking coconut milk slowly until all of the oil is extracted and latik is formed)

Preparation
Thaw frozen ube
Make the latik
Wilt banana leaf then brush it with coconut oil so the cooked kalamay na ube won't stick when you put it

Mix the thawed ube with coconut milk, mochiko, sugar, vanilla and a little coconut oil in a large wok and keep stirring while cooking
Put more coconut oil by tablespoonfuls if needed to prevent sticking
Keep stirring the mixture until it's very thick and put it in a pan lined with wilted banana leaves
Flatten by hand using a piece of oiled banana leaf so your hands don't get sticky
If you don't feel like stirring for a long time until the mixture gets very thick, you can put the slightly thickened mixture in a baking pan and bake in a 350 deg. oven for about 15-20 minutes
Cool and score the prepared ube in diagonal shapes and put latik on top. (Hint, brush the spatula used for scoring the ube with coconut oil to prevent sticking)

Geniet ervan !
mm

[Kris]

Worth trying Maya, but my over goes only until 200 degrees...

Sounds like a very sweet dish, I guess I would put sambal on top extra

[joost_edith]

Yeah, that is delicious :) But where in the netherlands can I get coconut milk? It's hard to get.

The recipe sounds familiair to me, but I am not sure if it is the same, because I don't know much about the region it is from.

We filipinos say: Masarap!

[peter van der m.]

it is simulair but instead of using frozen ube you should use coocked sweetpotato's!!
the ube is made from the sweetpotato

[joost_edith]

Ube is different than sweet potatoe :)

[peter van der m.]

now iam confussed.
i thought my wifand family boiled the sweet potatos and then mash them ad condensed milk sugar and so on and the result was called ube???

[joost_edith]

Ube is a fruit, purple color :)

Sweet potatoes just looks like potatoes but taste sweet

[peter van der m.]

but a sweetpotato is purple too!!!
i saw them in the market the other day,and they seemed very purple to me??
oh wel i ll ask my wife what she made when i saw them making what uderstood to be ube

[joost_edith]

Only the outside of a sweet potatoe is purple, but when you peel off the skin it looks like yellowish.

Yeah I am also wondering what they made hehehe :) I know how it looks like but forgot the name  

[maya]

SWEET POTATO = UBI = the purple fruit.  
It's not really fruit but more "root" as it grows like potato.  So it's the name of the ingredient of the dish.  The result dish could be named ...blah blah UBE blah blah... too   of course.

I still have  the fresh ubi or ube (as it's called by Malaysian, Indonesian, Philipines) I bought in Xotus and it was labbeled as zoete-aardappel. So my conclusion is : sweet potato (zoete-aardappel) equal to ubi/ ube.
No need to sweat over small stuffs guys just leave it to the experts   jullie vrouwen, bien sure!

Where to get it? as I said I bought it in Xotus (www.xotus.nl), and perhaps also available at tokos. Not all supermarket have the fresh one, but most of them has the frozen one. I think dishes prepared from either frozen or fresh zoete-aardappel tastes the same, as along as it was prepared the same way

COCONUT MILK is NOT hard to find.
It's everywhere in NL.... just go to Ah or C1000 or Edah they are all have it. They sell it either in can or in tetrapack.... if you found the so called COCONUT CREAM instead... yup, that's  the same thing.  The bahasa Indonesia term for this is SANTAN or santen, which is known by the older Dutch --while refering to the same thing.  There is santan extract sold in powder too.

OVEN "OVER HEATED" ?
Hoiy Kris, only 200 degree max ? then check...wheteher your oven measure is in fahrenheit or in celcius?   maybe you need to make a bit of calculation here   or call your philips or miele or siemens distributors for further details.  I am not the keuken expert !  

_{=============
Dutch "dishes" that I like ....nieuwe harring: fresh zonder onion.  
my Dutch hubby  :-*who doesn't eat fish find it strange of course}

[sunshine]

Ohhhh.....haring! That's the only 'dutch dishes' I don't like (so far).
I had to eat lots of onion to get rid of the harring taste  :(

Dian

[joost_edith]

haring is the same as sushi, both raw fish  

[joost_edith]

Please check this out, sweet potatoe = kamote, ube = local purple yam :)

http://www.tribo.org/vegetables/sampler.html

So ube is not sweet potatoe

[maya]

  your link also says :

Sweet potato, yam, kumara, camote or kamote. They're the same, a perennial trailing herb known scientifically as Ipomoea batatas. They come in many colors, shape and sizes  

he he he still confused?
mm

Dian, my husband will like you for not liking harring too.   he could never understand why people like fish at all (on their plate).  He prefer swimming with them... in fact one of his diving trips to Asia was the one "brought" him to me too  

[JesCal]

Hello,

I learnt a lot of asian dishes, but I wonder if anyone knows 'fufu', a Ghanaian food.
Fufu is pounded cocoyam or plantain and served with a hot spicy tomato soup, usually with meat and fish and some okrah.
Here in Holland cocoyam and plantain are too expensive, so we use potatoflakes to prepare fufu.
We eat this dish at least twice a week. I love the foods from Ghana. We eat more Ghanaian dishes than Dutch food, especially because I am not very fond of potato's. Besides that, my husband is a very good cook, and he showed me how to prepare a lot of Ghanaian dishes.

Jessica

[porteña]

   SUPER !!!!!!!!!!!! LUCI !!!!!

I love CANELONI!!!! Thanks for your recipe, I will have a try !

And I know that I still have to add here the recipe for empanadas... Shame on me !

...  and then roll them as they roll a death body inside a persian carpet in the movies.

LOL LOL  (influence of the tabloids of BSAS ?? )

[L]

I just didn´t find a better analogy to describe how to roll the caneloni 

Ohh i forgot to tell, of course you can use any stuff you like and any sauce, heaven is the limit to play with the caneloni :)

[labadi]

Hello,

I learnt a lot of asian dishes, but I wonder if anyone knows 'fufu', a Ghanaian food.
Fufu is pounded cocoyam or plantain and served with a hot spicy tomato soup, usually with meat and fish and some okrah.
Here in Holland cocoyam and plantain are too expensive, so we use potatoflakes to prepare fufu.
We eat this dish at least twice a week. I love the foods from Ghana. We eat more Ghanaian dishes than Dutch food, especially because I am not very fond of potato's. Besides that, my husband is a very good cook, and he showed me how to prepare a lot of Ghanaian dishes.

Jessica
I know fufu, its very good with a soup of fish(tuna-fish and the very stinky fish ) and meat.
You can buy it here ready made, even different kinds.