Milk Rice with Trickle / Honey Coconut (Imbul Kiri Bath)
Ingredients
MILK RICE
- 2 Cups short grain white Rice
- 2 Cups thick Coconut milk
- 2 tsp Salt
- 2 ½ Cups Water
COCONUT
TREACLE MIX
- 800 g finely scraped Coconut
- 2 Cups Treacle (Coconut or Kithul treacle)
- 3 Cloves
- 2 Green Cardamoms
- Pinch of Nut Meg powder
- Pinch of Salt
Method:
(1) Prepare the Coconut Treacle Mix
(1) Prepare the Coconut Treacle Mix
- Pour the treacle & water into a deep bottom pot and bring to a boil while stirring.
- Add the Coconut and mix well.
- Add the pinch of salt and the cloves, mix well.
- Once the mixture gets harder, take off the heat.
(2) Prepare the Milk
Rice
- Wash the rice & place in a medium-sized pot.
- Cook the rice over medium-low heat.
- Mix the salt and milk together (if you are using coconut milk take 02 cups of 1st milk)
- Once the rice is cook half way (3/4) add the milk (be sure that water has evaporated)
- Stir well & leave it in low heat until rice absorbs the milk (10mins).
(3) Combine
- Divide the slightly cooled milk rice into two portions.
- Evenly spread out a layer of milk rice into a flat bottom dish using one portion (should be at least. 2 cm thick).
- Then evenly spread the coconut treacle mix on top of the layered milk rice
- Cover it completely (including from the sides) with the second portion of the milk rice.
- It is important to do all this before the milk rice cools down too much as it will become too sticky to handle.
- Cut into blocks.
- Serve with bananas for breakfast or at tea time.
Tips:
- You can layer the milk rice in bowl and do the same and unfold the mixture into a flat tray or can be layered into a cup and unfold as individual pieces.