Recipe of Tasty Biko (Filipino Rice Cake)

Hello everybody, welcome to our recipe page. Today I will show you a way to make a special dish, Biko (Filipino Rice Cake). It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) Recipe.

You can cook Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Biko (Filipino Rice Cake)

1. You need 2 cups of glutinous rice.
2. Make ready 4 cups of coconut milk (kakang gata/ 2 cans of coconut milk will do 400 ml each).
3. Take 2 cups of water.
4. Make ready 1 cup of brown sugar.
5. Prepare 6 drops of ube essence (optional).
6. It’s 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.

Biko (Filipino Rice Cake) step by step

1. Wash glutinous rice in a pot or rice cooker. Drain excess water. Add 2 cups of water. Cook glutinous rice like you would with regular white rice..
2. On a pan, pour 2 cups of coconut milk and sugar. Set to medium heat and bring to a boil..
3. Add 6 drops of ube essence to mixture (optional)..
4. Add rice to the mixture. Constant mixing (folding motion) is necessary to prevent crusting at the bottom of the pan..
5. Keep mixing till sticky enough that it looks like a dough..
6. Put biko in a container and push with a spatula to even out surface..
7. Cooking latik: In a separate pan, pour 1 can/2 cups of coconut milk. Bring to boil and set to high heat. Keep stirring until paste-like consistency is observed then add vegetable oil to aid in toasting the coconut milk..
8. Once browned remove from heat, and drain and squeeze excess oil with a paper towel..
9. Spread latik over biko. Serve and enjoy..